Comments on “Gobot
Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
LOVE Citymapper (when I'm in a city that has it) - always my go to. I feel like I dont know if a bot for this use-case is the most efficient way. I loved the interaction of it but usually its just a few taps on my phone to get directions. Would love to hear from someone using this regularly vs the app :)
Chris Messina@chrismessina · 🏆 PH Community Member of the Year!
@bentossell if it gets built into FB Messenger and I don't have Citymapper installed, it'll be faster. 😁
Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@chrismessina would totally work if all I typed in was "London Kings Cross" and it gave me the routes. I dont need bots to be nice to me and butter me up haha
Spencer@sholtaway
@bentossell @chrismessina I totally agree, Ben, that took a loooong time. Here's how I would imagine a bot experience to work for Citymapper: Bot: Hi Me: Hi, I want to go to Union Square Bot: You can take the 2 or the 3 from where you are. (bonus points: If you want to walk less on this end, you can also take the 1.) Me: I'll take the 2 or 3 (or just clic… See more
Maxim Kazantsev@mkazantsev · Software Engineer
@bentossell more of a marketing thing right now really seems to me. Although could be fun to have it for real as a Telegram/FB Messenger/etc. bot that would send me to Citymapper app with the route pre-selected based on my replies. Brave new world.
Chris Messina@chrismessina · 🏆 PH Community Member of the Year!
@sholtaway @bentossell shouldn't just be plain text. That's missing the opportunity that conversational software unlocks!