I'd be more impressed if the site had a chatbot to talk to. The actual site [1] is just one of those pages that wants your email.<p>This seems to be a generic problem with chatbot companies. I have yet to find one with a bot intelligent enough to answer basic questions about the chatbot product. Most chatbots are about as smart as "press 1 to pay bill, press 2 to return product..." with a weak natural language system on top. A basic web site is more useful.<p>[1] <a href="https://xatkit.com/" rel="nofollow">https://xatkit.com/</a>
"explaining why the world needs yet another bot solution"<p>I'd be interested to hear your take on this. The dozen or so prominent bot startups that popped up over the last 5 years nearly all ended with acquihires. Even Facebook, who once thought they could create an uberbot to do literally anything, have all but abandoned their bot aspirations.
I've never had a good experience interacting with a chat bot. I find it insulting when a company I'm already giving money to insists I talk to a robot before I get to talk to a human being. Chat bots are just the latest version of listening to a dial in support phone menu and trying to figure out which option you need.
When I spend too much time on R&D building something big and it doesn't work out the way I planned; the first thought is to turn it into a platform and sell it to other people who might find it useful. Then I remember that starting and running a company is exponentially harder than developing a killer app, so the next thought is to open-source and document it and hope people pay me as a consultant... It seems this thought process is universal.