@yulian_ustiyanovych looks like they do a lot more and have paid options too. We just offer a way for site owners to use Facebook Messenger as a chat widget on websites and it's totally Free.
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@saijo_george so, you mean u will not charge at all? What is your business model than?
@yulian_ustiyanovych this was just a fun project for us. All it does is provided a wrapper for FB messenger, we have no plans to charge people to use that. A couple of line of code and anyone can do it, we just provided an easy way to generate the code. That is all.
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@saijo_george I use wordpress so there's not naturally a HTML file but instead various .php files, where do you suggest I place the widget code to test it out? Thanks!
@sturusell@saijo_george -- looked good, but just a suggestion...it would be nice to see it on the right side of the website rather than the left bottom. Most of the customers will look at right bottom (may be you can try with the heat map for better widget placement) ..good luck :)
@sturusell@saijo_george Third that on widget location. On mobile it is covered by your sumome share buttons which then gets covered by the newsletter subscribe box. It makes the screen very busy on mobile. Just thought you might want the constructive feedback.
Funnily enough, a few weeks ago I spent some time exploring different ways to do this. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like there's a way to hold an actual conversation in a chat box on the actual page of the site. This service gets around that by opening a popup. If you'd prefer to make a different trade-off, then you can get an on-page chat box where the site visitor can only send 1 message. Here's the demo I made: https://nathangathright.github.i...
@gijo_varghese Yeah, I noticed your version too. Nice trick with covering up the top of the FB Page plugin. I'd recommend adjusting your layout on mobile. Mine works similar to Intercom on mobile.
@manikarthik Of course! It all works by just including a 1.38 KB (minified) JS file and a 2.5 KB CSS file to your website. It comes with an icon template (PSD) where you can customize it with your own logo (iOS or Android version.) That's what I mean by 'lightweight.' Your browser only downloads a very small amount of data.
Couldn't you make this easier with a single line of code on your website? Right now the amount of code provided is 300+ lines of code.
On the flip side, this is apparently a great way to generate some leads for Supple so maybe it's clever? Makes me consider making some similarly designed products vs the entire back-end system. From a marketing perspective, great job @saijo_george.
Also there's a bug. The widget shows by default and then if it's not business hours it quickly becomes disabled. This presents a poor user experience. I'd suggest adding a `display:none;` by default in the jquery and then just calling `$(div).show()` if it's office hours. Not the opposite way around.
@allnick Hi Nick, I will pass the feedback to the team. Thanks for sending it through. The extra lines of code are in place to work out what time to show the widget on the site and switch it to an email OR show none when the site owner does not wish to engage visitors with a chat widget.
@saijo_george well there are a number of ways to handle this. However you also synchronously load the associated libraries. There are a few ways to make this all more efficient. Granted it won't be noticeable to most people but it's a lot of code to inject when 99% of it can be consolidated into a single hosted script. Either way ... clearly it's a good marketing hack :)
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@allnick@saijo_george Yes the code needs some work, 1 dropping the jQuery dependency would be awesome, but besides that you're querying the same thing over and over with the `jQuery` function instead of saving it to a variable (Every query should be saved via a variable) So yea with that awesome product, but I would not let this code run on my website as a developer, but I'm sure others won't really mind.
I really like this tool from @saijo_george - it lets you add a Facebook Messenger chat widget to your site so you can talk to your customers on a platform they probably already use.
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