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Ask IH: Are there any chatbots developer in the community?

I need advice and guidance on building the chatbot feature for my product. I want to know about available frameworks/technology available and fastest go-to-market strategy.

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    What platform are you targeting? Slack? Telegram? Chat for a website?

    There's quite a few open source packages for different services like Slack on github which abstract away some of the boilerplate work. However there's still a fair amount of developer time involved to make those tools accomplish something meaningful.

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      Thanks for your feedback. One can say, its a chatbot for website. HiringPlus is a recruiting platform. I am working on a new feature which will let the users publish their job openings on different job boards. I am thinking about having a chatbot every job they publish. It will definitely help them find more applicants.
      I can start by implementing it for just one job description and iteratively build on top of that.
      Tech stack is pretty simple: Angular, Rest in Java, Python for machine learning.

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    One more chatbot developer here. Working on bot for Slack using Python & Django stack. Weird stack for chatbot development, I know. It could be overkill for simple Slack bot but (WOW) it plays awesome. There are 2 reasons:

    • I know how to brew Django
    • Application is pretty complex in general and Slack bot is a small part of it

    Tell more about what you what you want to build. It will be much easier to suggest smth specific :)

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      I am copying my reply from one of the above comment.
      HiringPlus is a recruiting platform. I am working on a new feature which will let the users publish their job openings on different job boards. I am thinking about having a chatbot every job they publish. It will definitely help them find more applicants.
      I can start by implementing it for just one job description and iteratively build on top of that.
      Tech stack is pretty simple: Angular, Rest in Java, Python for machine learning.
      What do you think?

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        For me sounds reasonable to build bot as one more feature of existing backend. Means using Java library for any platform you choose: Messenger, TG, WhatsApp, whatever....

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    I worked with Messenger bot before, it is really cool to use and quick to deploy!