Friday 13 January 2017

Taking A Look At BotPress

Looking through GitHub/Trending, I narrowed my search to JavaScript just to browse around for some cool ideas. I found one particular post about BotPress, which seemed interesting in its name.

The post is called 'botpress' and its introduction says "The wordpress of bots. Create, manage and extend chatbots in seconds."

The project deals with chatbots, which are AI programs that simulate having human conversations. It is a repository of many unique modules contributed by the open source community.

Vision & Mission

Botpress is on mission to make bots ubiquitous and profitable for everybody. At Botpress, we think that using closed-source tools like Chatfuel is not the right approach for building awesome and powerful bots. To be able to create something great, it's important to have full control of your tools and to leverage the community efforts as much as possible.

Initial target audience

Botpress is at an early stage and we are looking for nodejs developers to build new modules, create chatbots and help the community to build something that will be huge... Over time, everyone will benefit from having a powerful open-source ecosystem with a wide variety of specialized modules.
If you are not a programmer or that this is your first bot, please consider using Chatfuel, FlowXO or Motion.ai, these are great tools we recommend for begineers and for non-coders.
 
The github post references its main website: https://botpress.io/ ... written in English.

It appears from just browsing the site that it allows you to download free modules and use them. It also seems to offer some guidance on how to use them in a simple manner and leaves references for more information for developers to study and implement later in their own manner.

It currently has about 36 open issues and 6 contributors so far. Their most recent updates to the source code have been implementing Google Analytics. So far, the people using the project are chatbot users and those interested in developing the coding further to better refine their modules.


https://github.com/botpress/botpress

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