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Re:Microsoft Bot Framework by joshstrange on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @04:26PM (#11392704)
> Good UI isn't hard. Generally, it's simple and universally understood.

I have to strongly disagree with that, it might be easy to spot good UI but it is not normally easy to make a good UI.

As for SMS Twilio is dirt cheap $0.0075/message + $1/mo for a number also combining it with something like Wit.ai [0] to parse your text and you can get pretty far.

[0] https://wit.ai/docs/http/20141022

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Re:Microsoft Bot Framework by ocdtrekkie on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @05:22PM (#11393122)
That's a monthly fee and a per message fee I don't have to pay because I'm using email. :) Also, I get to use a open standard, which is another big plus.
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