Comments on “Octane AI
Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
I've been able to play around with this platform a little (before it was made more beautiful!) Tell us why this is better than other bot-creation platforms out there. There is a ton of competition at the moment. The bot space is in its infancy right now and it seems to be devlopers using dev-central platforms to build bots and more even using custom frame… See more
Matt Schlicht@mattprd · Creator of Chatbots Magazine
@bentossell Great questions! And thank you for being one of our early testers <3 There are a lot of platforms that help you build bots, and a lot of them are awesome. These bot platforms fall into two categories: 1) APIs. You can use the API, if you are a developer, to create a chatbot. 2) WYSIWYG / drag and drop bot builders. In these you are creating… See more
Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@mattprd yeah... I mean Im not a programmer, I used Chatfuel and found it relatively straight-forward to build some bots of various abilities. BUT, like I said, people like using different things. People always will. Having the Wordpress for Bots is a necessary step. People sometimes use wordpress for their website, sometimes pay someone to do wordpres… See more
Matt Schlicht@mattprd · Creator of Chatbots Magazine
@bentossell Totally, but I think that you have spent a LOT of time learning about conversational user experience, which is why you can create bots from scratch (which is awesome). We've found that most people aren't as knowledgable as you are :)
Ben Tossell@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@mattprd yeh my point is that everyone is different and at different levels. Having a 'wordpress for bot building' is a necessary medium here. asking again "Is this platform going to be a self-serve only platform or will there be an 'agency-style' arm to it?"
Matt Schlicht@mattprd · Creator of Chatbots Magazine
@bentossell Self-serve all the way!
Joe Maristela@joemaristela · JoeMaristela.com
@mattprd @bentossell To date, Octane AI's the closest to mindmeld that Bot content space has. When you get your groove with Octane, it's just as easy as, well, chatting with yourself. Tip: We start up a bunch of Convos to help fill in Topics to see if the topics can garner tractions. Since these Convos are always a work in progress, we abruptly end them wi… See more