How our chatbot attracted 1M users without promotion

Posted by jimothyhalpert7 on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @12:18PM
from the venturebeat.com dept.

http://venturebeat.com/2016/11/07/how-our-dumb-bot-attracted-1-million-users-without-even-trying/

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Re:How our chatbot attracted 1M users without promotion by SandersAK on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @01:37PM (#12913213)

saved you a click: "We did nothing to promote the bot. No ads. No paid promotions. No splashy launch. We just put it in Kik’s Bot Shop and waited. (Full disclaimer: We work for Kik, and Roll has been our side project.)"

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Re:How our chatbot attracted 1M users without promotion by wsmith on Wednesday November 09, 2016 @02:30PM (#12913746)

That's a little misleading. What they did well was keep the bot simple.

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Re:How our chatbot attracted 1M users without promotion by cr3ative on Thursday November 10, 2016 @05:49AM (#12919332)

"1M users without promotion" is also misleading without "By the way, we run the platform it operates on."

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