Ask HN: Has anyone created a useful Facebook Bot?

Posted by palidanx on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @10:43AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm just curious if anyone here has created a useful Facebook Bot for your organization or business? Right now, I am making one for my church to send out automated notifications for what is happening in the week. We have an app, but it turns out nobody really looks at it so hopefully the Facebook Bot would have greater engagement. Just curious how others are faring out there.

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone created a useful Facebook Bot? by jarnix on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @11:20AM (#11628975)

Hello,

I will try a bot as a/this weekend project.

However my first chat with Poncho was not too great : http://imgur.com/S4iJsw3

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone created a useful Facebook Bot? by palidanx on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @12:04PM (#11629288)

Interesting. I'm guessing some of these bots aren't built on natural language processing, but instead keyword parsing?

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone created a useful Facebook Bot? by mod on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @12:14PM (#11629378)

Classic Poncho.

Some of that is hilarious.

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone created a useful Facebook Bot? by ffumarola on Thursday May 05, 2016 @02:46AM (#11634409)

This pretty much mirrors my experience.

I feel like they rushed their launch partners (or themselves if they're self built). I haven't tried to find any more bots because of how bad the poncho UX was.

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone created a useful Facebook Bot? by asteadman on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @11:32AM (#11629051)

I had a genius idea for a Facebook bot: customer relationship management for lifestyle service companies (think hairdressers, photographers, even Realtors). These businesses don't want to use extra software, and the overhead of entering customer information into yet another website/app is too much. However, they are probably already on Facebook because that's where their customers are. If a bot could push them notifications about their customers, and be properly tied in to open graph, I think it would be revolutionary.

I'm not in the crm space, and i don't use Facebook, so I'm not going to build one. My two cents.

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone created a useful Facebook Bot? by ljk on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @11:58AM (#11629237)

you'd run into the problem of building on top of fb's platform and they can kill it any second

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone created a useful Facebook Bot? by vr3690 on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @04:16PM (#11631398)

That's true for all bots though, isn't it?

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone created a useful Facebook Bot? by Raed667 on Thursday May 05, 2016 @02:44AM (#11634404)

I have made a Facebook bot that gets you HN stories (TOP/SHOW/ASK). Facebook didn't accept it.

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone created a useful Facebook Bot? by kinsman on Thursday May 05, 2016 @10:45AM (#11636522)

Did they give you a reason as to why it was rejected?

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Re:Ask HN: Has anyone created a useful Facebook Bot? by Raed667 on Thursday May 05, 2016 @04:12PM (#11639325)

They said that the interaction's quality dosn't meet their requirements.

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