Hey, ProductHunters!
I'm excited to be introducing Sensay for Slack to ProductHunt today. In early 2015, I met Sensay's founders, Ariel and Crystal, to think about how to grow their startup in a conversational UI category that was plagued with skepticism.
For context, this was during a difficult time in America as it composed with the Ferguson unrest and riots. In a time and place where curfews were a thing, people couldn't even turn to Google to answer whether their local highway was available. This is where a product like Sensay got me excited because it transcends the informational layer that Google has attempted to create by indexing the Web.
"Need to know if the Interstate 70 is open right now."
Most exciting is that in some ways, Sensay is the evolution of what Google has been doing, in that it is in fact indexing people and their ability to provide hyper-local, hyper-specific recommendations on a variety of topics in ways that Google just cannot (i.e. "I need something like X, but not like Y, kinda like Z.")
We often look to growth rate to indicate whether a startup has figured out what it's doing. I'm saying this because these guys didn't care that companies like Jelly were raising millions around them. They were on to something truly, truly special and recently things started taking off. Seriously taking off.
As Sensay turns one year old, it looks back at the variety of companies who have entered the "conversational UI" space only to trip both feet over.
The last few months were earmarked by explosive growth as Sensay delivered its 20,000,000th message, a 100% increase over the previous month as the company passed the 10M messages mark. The folks at Sensay wrote a short Medium post to go over the company's latest product in greater detail, and you can take a look at it here:
https://medium.com/@sensay/hello...
One last thing:
Sensay for Slack must be installed by Slack channel admins. Feel free to leave your questions or comments below. The Sensay team will be living on ProductHunt to answer personally your questions today!
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I've had some of the most satisfying conversations on Sensay answering questions. Reminds me of the delight I had answering questions on Aardvark back in the day but times 1000. I rarely think about asking for answers on it though weirdly. Maybe putting it in my slack will help
@crystalrose we just installed your slack bot at @onunmute and I can already tell asking @sensay for help will be much more front of mind and accessible. great job 🙌 💯
@walark Sensay is AI / machine learning mixed with epic matching and human routing. We believe the best artificial intelligence is built to uplift humans and make them smarter (not replace them). We bet on the humans all the way, while deeply rooted in awesome tech.
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I've been using Sensay for over a year -- excited to see it come to the interface (Slack) I'm in all day!
Super cool product! We've been working on an expertise live chat platform called relayo -- coming soon (days we hope) and have toyed with chat bot integration... what you guys have done is truly innovative ! Really cool - been trying it with our slack channel --- awesome !
Sensay has been a resource I use just about every day. It's an incredible way for the community to support one another day to day with the different questions. Think Google but powered by an awesome human's life experience when asking anything in a search. I've even set up a blind date using Sensay. :)
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