I'm really impressed with some of the bots, especially in FB messenger - drastically furthering FB value as a social utility, in my eyes - but I testing this one a couple minutes ago & haven't gotten a response... Seems like more work than using a search engine so far.
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@elizabethhunker Sorry, had problems. Now solved :) Thanks for testing and for the feedback.
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Thanks Ben!. We're just getting started on this =) Hope people like it, and get lot of feedback!
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I just went to give it a try with "Show hotels in new york" and then "Show me hotels in New York" but I didn't get a response. Would love to try it out, am I doing something wrong?
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@matt_berman Sorry, we had some problems. Fixed now!
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@christian_hentschel Yea I just got a reply! One immediate thing that would be nice (I'm still playing around with the product) would be if it would let me be more flexible with dates. I want to say "sometime in october" rather than specific dates. Then, you could give me suggestions like "the last week in October is usually the least expensive".
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@matt_berman cool feature :). We'll be adding this kind recommendations soon.
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@christian_hentschel That would be great. So often I just want to put in rough dates to see what's available.
Integrating with Messenger is a good idea, its nice using some part that's already familiar and very easy to set up. I was wondering can you use TravelBuddy to see who you know in a particular city? So say, 'Which of my friends are in Melbourne right now'
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@rowens that'd be interesting. Maybe connecting w/facebook after a user login.
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This really has nothing to do in particular with this product, but I really don't get - from a ux and business model perspective- all the hype around bots. Why are bots more efficient from a ux standpoint? Why all the craze? And why Facebook messenger?
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@elonrubin Well form the UX perspective i think the Async type of conversation. Requests could be served and notified later. Personalisation through a human UX like language conversation, instead of clicks/pageviews. There's really a huge horizon for this. I think it's just really starting.
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@christian_hentschel language conversation is inefficient ux, no? Because isn't it restricted to a result presented in text form? Compare "find amazing beaches" in search versus bot. the former can deliver many results simultanioisly. The latter - one at a time. I'm not sure what you mean by async conversation. Its used in a data loading term. And I'm not sure why one would want a delay in response to a query. What do you mean? Outside of saying there is a horizon, why is there a horizion?
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@elonrubin well, different kind of experience / use cases i think. Personalization is key here. I think a lots of results/filters are not needed if you get what you want. I mean, data from conversations could provide a better understanding about what users want. This is just starting as a way to communicate with / understand users. I believe so.
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I am trying to search for hotels in Colombo Sri Lanka and it keeps returning multiple locations found. Not able to proceed from there. What do I do?
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