Overview
Covers the entire development of bot life cycle from design to implementation
Covers integration to IFTT and IoT
Talks about business and monetization of bots
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About this book
Learn best practices for building bots by focusing on the technological implementation and UX in this practical book. You will cover key topics such as setting up a development environment for creating chatbots for multiple channels (Facebook Messenger, Skype, and KiK); building a chatbot (design to implementation); integrating to IFTT (If This Then That) and IoT (Internet of Things); carrying out analytics and metrics for chatbots; and most importantly monetizing models and business sense for chatbots.
Build Better Chatbots is easy to follow with code snippets provided in the book and complete code open sourced and available to download.With Facebook opening up its Messenger platform for developers, followed by Microsoft opening up Skype for development, a new channel has emerged for brands to acquire, engage, and service customers on chat with chatbots.
What You Will Learn
- Work with the bot development life cycle
- Master bot UX design
- Integrate into the bot ecosystem
- Maximize the business and monetization potential for bots
Developers, programmers, and hobbyists who have basic programming knowledge. The book can be used by existing chatbot developers to gain a better understanding of analytics and the business side of bots.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Anik Das is an open source enthusiast and an entrepreneur at heart. He cofounded Yellow Messenger with Rashid, Raghu and Kishore. He is a frequent contributor to a lot of Python and Javascript projects on Gitbhub. He is the contributor to Django-LibSpark a Python library designed for Django to access Apache Spark on the UI.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Build Better Chatbots
Book Subtitle: A Complete Guide to Getting Started with Chatbots
Authors: Rashid Khan, Anik Das
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3111-1
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Professional and Applied Computing (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: Rashid Khan and Anik Das 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-3110-4Published: 15 December 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-3111-1Published: 13 December 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 109
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 50 illustrations in colour
Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Open Source, Web Development