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Show HN: I rebuilt an API-first chatbot platform from 2015

4 pointsby xakpcabout 4 years ago

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xakpcabout 4 years ago
Hey hackers.<p>Wanna show you what I built essentially from 2015 or even 2014. In that year telegram, chatbots were introduced - the same time around I build a simple XML-based chatbot hosting on a local AngelHack hackathon which I won.<p>The next year I expand this project even more, especially on HackJunction Helsinki hackathon in 2015 where I and my team built one of the first apparel selling chatbot for Shopify - and take first place there. At the same time, I made a chatbot platform that I never published but decided to use internally.<p>I made a decision to move enterprise because they were ready to pay - and for the past 5 years, my company built tons of chatbots for automating HR: employee support, adaptation, recruitment, and so on - all with the help of our own engine&#x2F;platform.<p>But 2020 and covid shit basically destroyed my company, so I scraped most of the internal services (13 to be precise), wrap it with Azure API Management (you can check how cryptic it was [here](<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xakpc.info&#x2F;connecting-azure-api-management-azure-ad-b2c-and-paddle-with-net-5-razor-app-part-1" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xakpc.info&#x2F;connecting-azure-api-management-azure-ad-...</a>)) and published it so anyone can save their time building bots.<p>Now I mostly use it for myself to support several last clients and showing it around in the hope it might be useful for someone besides me and a couple of people I know.