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Shashwat Pradhan@shashwatpradhan · CEO/Founder @emberify
Hello Product Hunt! We initially built Instant to track your life automatically on a dashboard. We track your phone usage, sleep, places, travel and fitness. (Apps on Android too) But we realised, users need more value out of their data. We started out with building weekly reports. Moving ahead, a Chatbot Coach in the app made sense since users can easily q… See more
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Despina Exadaktylou@despina_exad · Inbound Marketing Coordinator @Moosend
@shashwatpradhan can't wait to try it :)
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Mayank Verma@maddynator · Founder, GYMINUTES
@shashwatpradhan this is awesome.. did you guys build chatbot as a lib that can be integrated in other apps? or was it an extension of an open source lib..
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Shashwat Pradhan@shashwatpradhan · CEO/Founder @emberify
@maddynator if you are talking about the UI, on Android we built it from scratch. For iOS we used JSQMessenger: https://github.com/jessesquires/... I would recommend building it from scratch to keep it flexible.
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Mayank Verma@maddynator · Founder, GYMINUTES
@shashwatpradhan thanks but I am interested in the AI part... you mentioned in medium that its all done locally.. how does bot interpret and extract data from local store.
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Shashwat Pradhan@shashwatpradhan · CEO/Founder @emberify
@maddynator we have some basic NLP algorithms and mappings to understand the user input. Further it is converted into DB queries to fetch the data.
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Mayank Verma@maddynator · Founder, GYMINUTES
@shashwatpradhan awesome.. any good resource for quick ramp up.. or a dirty objC example.. which NLP algo are you using.. I found a couple on google..
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Shashwat Pradhan@shashwatpradhan · CEO/Founder @emberify
@maddynator all our NLP/mappings was made from scratch since the data and logic was specific for our app. You can drop me an email on shashwat@emberify.com if you need help with anything specific.
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Yaekyum Lee@yaekyum · Sendbird
@shashwatpradhan this is awesome, did you guys build the messaging platform in house?
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Shashwat Pradhan@shashwatpradhan · CEO/Founder @emberify
@yaekyum yes we did! Also, where did you find Instant's Product Hunt page from?
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Yaekyum Lee@yaekyum · Sendbird
@shashwatpradhan thanks for the quick reply, PH newsletter!
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Yaekyum Lee@yaekyum · Sendbird
@shashwatpradhan is there a reason why you didn't use external chat api ? (e.g. white label solutions, FB and etc)
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Shashwat Pradhan@shashwatpradhan · CEO/Founder @emberify
@yaekyum we wanted to build a native solution since we keep all the user's data only on the phone for privacy reasons.
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Yaekyum Lee@yaekyum · Sendbird
@shashwatpradhan got it, sure will do!
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Rashida B.@xorashidab
@shashwatpradhan Looking forward to giving this another try!
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Shashwat Pradhan@shashwatpradhan · CEO/Founder @emberify
@xorashidab thanks! Pls send me an email for feedback (shashwat at emberify.com)
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