Seven chatbot building platforms: Easily build your own bot

【51CTO.com Quick Translation】 Chatterbot is a program used to simulate human dialogue or chat. The world's first chatbot was born in the 1980s. It was named "Albert" and was written in BASIC. Today, chatbots such as "Billy" and "Alice" have appeared on the Internet. Today, the most familiar chatbot is Siri, the assistant in Apple's mobile phone. So, how to build your own chatbot? You need a building platform. Today, please follow the author to look at these seven powerful chatbot building platforms.

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Some of the most popular chatbot publishing platforms include FB Messenger, Kik, Slack, Telegram, and WeChat. A chatbot publishing platform is a medium, tool, or application for building chatbots. We have chatbot development platforms like Chatfuel and Botsify (we will learn about them below). Chat platforms can help you add more features to your bot, provide machine learning capabilities, API integration, and more.

1. Chat fuel
Chatfuel is a platform that even beginners with no coding experience can easily master. You can use Chatfuel to build your own chatbot in Facebook Messager. It provides features such as adding content cards and automatically sharing with your followers, collecting information in Messenger chats in forms, letting users request information and interact with buttons, and it is completely free.

2. Bot sify
Botsify is another popular Facebook Messenger chat platform. It uses a drag-and-drop template to create bots. When you want to create a bot, it supports simple integration through plugins, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and integrated analytics. Although machine learning and integrated artificial intelligence may be difficult for people without technical knowledge, the drag-and-drop function provided by this platform allows more people to create a chatbot by themselves. Botsify platform allows you to create one bot for free, and you will need to pay for the second one.

3. Flow XO
FlowXo is a highly rated chat platform with an easy-to-use visual editor. Using FlowXO, you can support many platforms without having to create them over and over again. But its disadvantage is that it is limited to a certain number of sessions, in which a subscription must be created for further use.

4. Beep Boop
The BeepBoop platform provides an end-to-end development experience and provides a valuable reference for robot builders. On the BeepBoop platform, you can build great robots. This platform is the best platform for running Slack robots.

5. Bottr
Botter is an interesting concept that can help you build interesting chatbots on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedln. And it is very simple and fast. In less than 5 minutes, you can build a robot on Botter. It will automatically set questions based on your Facebook data. Bottr supports embedding your robot on your website. You can also add data from a medium, WordPress or Wikipedia to achieve better data coverage.

6. Motion AI
Motionai is an intuitive chat platform that can build, train and use robots on FBMessager, Slack, Smooch and your website. It provides you with a flowchart for creating conversations so that you can intuitively understand the results of the robot's queries. You can also link robots to information service platforms such as Slack, FacebookMessager, and Go. Motionai allows you to deploy Node.js code directly from several integrated interfaces.

7. Chatty people
There are pre-set chatbot models on the chattypeople platform. These models are ready for e-commerce such as customer service and food enterprises. If you choose the chatbot for e-commerce, then you only need to add products, questions and answers, and some general settings, and you are done.

Author: MitulMakadia
Original link: https://dzone.com/articles/which-are-the-7-powerful-platforms-to-build-a-chat
Translated by Liu Nina

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