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Voice bots
Newsletters
Podcasts and episodes
Popular examples of bots
Directories (lists)
Messaging platforms
Tools
- Analytics
- Marketing
- Monetization
- Prototyping
- Testing
- Internationalization
- Customer Service
Sources (news, articles, blogs, resources)
- VentureBeat
- TechCrunch
- Medium
- Reddit
- Other
Job boards
NLP (tools, engines, SDKs, frameworks)
Bot building platforms
Personal assistants
Payment & subscription services
ChatOps
Bot Development
- SDKs/Frameworks/Libraries
- Boilerplates/templates
- Tutorials/guides
Agencies
Influencers/People
Events
Fundraising (accelerators, camps, capitals, funds)
Books
Communities/chats
Video Tutorials

Voice bots

Storyline - Create voice apps without coding via visual interface and ready-to-use templates.
BotTalk - Create voice apps for Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant with simple Yaml Markup.

Newsletters

How Bot Industry Grow By Up To 100% Month Over Month - Five epic actionable bot tricks delivered to your email once a week
Bot Weekly - Bot Weekly is a weekly round up of the most interesting chatbot and AI news
Chat Bots Weekly - 4100+ people from companies like Slack, Facebook, PH, Kik and Sequoia are here. Covering the industry around Slack, SMS, Kik and Facebook Messenger chatbots. Also called conversational commerce or #ConvComm
Botlist Weekly - Weekly newsletter from BotList
The Messenger - A personally curated selection- featuring mobile messengers, chatbots and industry experts
Bot! zine - An online newsletter for #botmakers and bot enthusiasts. Bots, chat bots, art bots, NLP, chat interfaces, machine learning, AI, latest tutorials and resources, interviews and upcoming events
Topbots - Make sure you're in-the-know about important news, breakthroughs, and applications of artificial intelligence and bots. TOPBOTS is your ultimate guide to exponential technologies
Chatbots weekly digest - The Web's best digest on Chatbots & AI, by https://www.botfuel.io
BotBeat - VentureBeat Newsletters. Connecting the dots: AI, messaging and bots
Hearing Voices - This week's news about voice computing apps, delivered directly to your inbox
Alexa News - Provide your email address to stay up to date with the latest Amazon Alexa news and IoT and voice industry trends
Messaging Weekly - The week's best messaging and #convcomm news, opinions and apps delivered every Friday
Technically Sentient - Bringing you the latest in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Neurotechnology
Locutius - Locutius starts your week with with everything you need to know about the design and business of conversational systems, from voice to chatbots, plus the machine intelligence that powers it all
UX for Bots - A monthly recap of the best content shared on the UX for Bots Facebook group in your inbox
Chatbots weekly digest - A weekly digest of chatbot and AI related news

Podcasts and episodes

O'Reilly Bots Podcast - The O'Reilly Bots Podcast covers advances in conversational user interfaces, artificial intelligence, and messaging that are revolutionizing the way we interact with software
BotCast from oratio / Swell - Weekly insights from the bots and messaging space with Pete & David
Bots Podcast with Jon Bruner
VZV Podcast - Chatbots and AI podcast, hosted by Christie Pitts of the Verizon Ventures Development Team
a16z Podcast: Bots and Beyond - Connie Chan, Benedict Evans, and Chris Messina discuss the topic of bots, mobile, and beyond: the (evolution?) from web to apps to messaging to bots; chat as an interface; “conversational commerce”; and so on
Software Engineering Daily - Weekly podcasts about chatbots and messaging, including Slack Bots Podcast with Amir Shevat
LPX Episode 7: Are chatbots the new apps? - A podcast about future of chatbots with Robert Stephens, a co-founder of a new chatbot service called Assist.
What's Tech - Casey Newton from The Verge on the interesting applications of bots

Popular examples of bots

Poncho - Poncho delivers customizable weather forecasts daily via email and text message, helping you plan everything from your commute to your outfit. It's free!
Swelly - Bot to provide the fastest way of asking questions and getting opinions by friends!
Instalocate - Instalocate is a real-time flight tracking bot. You can get flight status, delay alerts, arrival, departure, and gate information
Kayak - The bot lets users find flights and hotels using conversational language rather than the old-school method of plugging in dates and sifting through hundreds of results
TheScore - theScore brings you real-time sports scores and news from the teams you care about, with deep coverage of MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL and major soccer leagues!
Foxsy - Foxsy is your personal matchmaking assistant to find a beautiful and meaningful connection with the right person. And, Foxsy is the first and the best matchmaking Chatbot in the world
PayPal - With PayPal bot you can pay your friends and teammates on Slack and on your preferred device
Skyscanner - Skyscanner bot for Skype is a passenger flight search engine that allows users to browse for flights via price and location
Visabot - Visabot for Facebook Messenger is an immigration attorney 2.0 Inspired by U.S. top immigration lawyers to deliver the results no lawyer can match
Hipmunk - Hipmunk chatbot for Facebook Messenger is a super-powered Hipmunk who digs through tons of travel options to help you find the best flights and hotels
Mica, the Hipster Cat Bot - Mica, the Hipster Cat Bot is a venue recommendation bot that helps you discover the best places worldwide - on FB Messenger, Skype, Kik, Telegram
Nikabot - A Slack bot that keeps track of what your team is doing so you don't have to

Directories (lists)

ChatBottle - Chatbots Search Engine
There is a bot for that - Search engine for bots
BotList - App Store for bots
Microsoft Bot Directory - Bot Directory from Microsoft
Slack bot directory
Intento - Search platform for FB Messenger/Telegram/Viber
Telegram Bots Store
Discord Bots List
Botpages - Botpages help make it easier for you to discover and find bots
ProductHunt bot directory
TeamChat botstore
Qwazou Bot - A Messenger Bot that helps you discover new bots on Messenger.

Messaging platforms

Tools

Analytics

Botimize - Optimize your bot for happier customers, scientifically. Track, test, and action in real time. It's as easy as 1 - 2 - 3
BotMetrics - Bot & Conversation Analytics
Dashbot - Actionable Bot Analytics. Increase user engagement, acquisition, and monetization through actionable bot analytics. Now supporting Alexa and Google Home
BotAnalytics - Make decisions with historical & real time conversation data. We combine real time conversations with historical ones to help answer the toughest questions about engaged, churnable and retained conversations
Facebook Bot Analytics - Official Analytics tool for Facebook Messenger Bots
Image-Charts - Display high-resolution, beautiful crisp charts to your customers through your chat bot
ChatUrl - Easily add rich, data-driven charts to your web & mobile apps, chat bots, and emails. We’ve thought of everything to help you transform your data into chart images with less effort
Botlytics - Analytics for your bot. Track the messages your bot sends and the conversations your bot has
UxProbe - Use UXprobe to measure the most important thing about a chatbot – how often users are successful. See how users complete or fail tasks (intents). Drill into sessions with failed tasks to improve the logic of your chatbot
DialogAnalytics - Conversational Analytics. Insights into your conversational applications
VoiceLabs - Voice analytics for Alexa and Google Assistant, free and live in 10 minutes
Opearlo Analytics - Track the usage of your Alexa Voice Apps
Witlingo - Witlingo is a full stack Software as a Service product that enables you to continually learn about your conversations. We provide out-of-the-box Analytics that measure how your conversation is performing for your customers
ChatMetrics - Push-notifications platform for bots
Wordhop - Wordhop enables humans and AI to work together to enhance customer service, drive eCommerce transactions, and keep customers engaged in conversation
Dimon - Dimon enables bot and chatbot owners to identify and fix issues in their bot conversations
ChatbotProxy - Extensible proxy between your chatbot and providers. It helps debug incoming/outgoing requests using curl. And it keeps per page metrics for Facebook Messenger bot apps.
Botmeter - Follow performance, optimize conversations and understand your customers' behaviors through our analytics application.
Chatbase - Analyse and optimize bot conversations. Visualize interaction flow, explore chat conversations, analyze retention and track convertions.

Marketing

bCRM - CRM for Marketers and Customer Support Staff in the chatbot world
Hunch - Hunch is your powerful but super simple analytics assistant that constantly monitors your marketing metrics. From answering AARRR funnel questions to automating your weekly and monthly reporting.
Boim - Bo.im is gateway to all your channels. It can link to all of your bots, contact info, locations, websites, and much more, while behaving according to where it was clicked on.
Messengerify - Messengerify will connect the website with your Facebook Page and provide a better chat experience for your customers. Even if visitor leaves your website the conversation can continue via Messenger.
WhatsHelp - Messenger Marketing Platform for marketers and entrepreneurs. Grow your subscriber list, create smart bots, and broadcast messages in just a few clicks.

Monetization

RadBots - Monetization Tools For Bots
waves.ai - Learn, grow & let your goals become reality
cashbot.ai - Monetization platform for chat & voice experiences that leverages the rich context of conversation to make relevant, timely product recommendations which lead directly to sales conversions via mobile & traditional E-Commerce.

Prototyping

BotSociety - Design your chatbot. The fastest way to create a bot experience preview
BotPreview - Easily build previews of chatbot interactions. Sketch chatbot interactions using the BotPreview online editor and share them or export as static HTML or MP4/GIF video, without writing a single line of code!
BotMock - Effortlessly Design Bot Conversations. Build customized bot conversations in under 5 minutes. Share them or export as a gif and video - without writing a single line of code!
BotFrame - A playground to design bots
Bots UI Kit - Bots UI kit for Messenger Platform
Layer Messenger design kit - A design kit for Sketch, containing everything you need to craft beautiful and functional rich messaging experiences
Convointerface - Build Chatbots, Messaging apps, and Conversational forms with easy to use design assets
Walkie - Design your bot dialogue. Test copy, add attachments and share with your dev team. Made for humans, readable by Slack
Twinery - Twine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories
Messenger demo viewer - Demo your Messenger bot interaction without showing personal chats
ChatMapper - writing and testing non-linear dialogs
Cheap Bots, Done Quick! - Help you make a Twitterbot! They're easy to make and free to run.
BotMockup for Telegram - Superfast mockup-tool for Telegram bots! Totaly free. Construct and send messages to the sample bot and make screenshots.

Testing

BotTesting - Test your bot! Send your email and bot link to us, we’ll examine your bot’s performance and usability
Dimon - Dimon enables bot and chatbot owners to identify and fix issues in their bot conversations
Chatbottest - ChatbotTest is an open source guide that helps you identify chatbot's design issues under 7 different categories.

Monitoring

Dimon - Monitor your production bot with predefined user scenarios

Internationalization

Cyrano - Make your bot multilingual. Unbabel's Cyrano API instantly enables your bot to chat in more than 20 languages with human quality
Indie Localizers Team - Release polyglot bots with our human help. We're a team of localizers, developers, testers, and SEOs that can help you add more languages to your bot

Customer service

LiveChat24/7 - Discover how our Chatbot supported Live Chat is the easiest and best way to save time and improve customer service
agent.ai - AI-Enhanced Customer Service. Let artificial intelligence resolve your customers’ frequently asked questions in seconds, not days

Sources (news, articles, blogs, resources)

VentureBeat

TechCrunch

Medium

Other

BotCube Telegram channel - 🤖 Bots, messaging apps, conversational interfaces, AI & ML — hot reviews & insights from industry experts 🤖
Chatbots Magazine - Chatbots, AI, NLP, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram, and more
BotWiki - Botwiki is an open catalog of friendly, useful, artistic online bots, and tools and tutorials that can help you make them
TopBots - We scour the net for the latest content about bots & artificial intelligence. Be the FIRST to know & understand technical breakthroughs that change how we live and work
Chatbot's Life - Everything you want to know about chatbots
ChatbotNewsDaily - An Introduction to Chatbots, Messaging Channels and the History of Artificial Intelligence and Robots
Bot Stash - A curated directory of chat bot resources & tools
Planeta Chatbot - A chatbot magazine originally created in Spain with the purpose of sharing the latest content about chatbots.
UX of Chatbots - A curated list of resources to help you on your journey into the User Experience of Chatbots.

Job boards

BotMakers - The best place to hire chatbot developers.
BotCompass - 🤖 Chatbot companies and developers to power up your business 🤖
Botunity - Find a job you love in the Bot & AI Industry. Your next opportunity could be with one of these leading companies. Apply today
BotJobs - A job board focused on the Bot Industry
Botified - Hire Quality Bot Developers And Find Bot Jobs
ChatbotJobs - Find the remote or onsite job related to bots, AI, NLP, machine learning, data, neural networks
BotGig - Hire a top-tier development team to build your chatbot
BotMakers Projects - A Facebook group with Chatbot Development projects curated by BotMakers.

NLP (tools, engines, SDKs, frameworks)

wit.ai - Natural Language Service for Developers from Facebook
api.ai - Conversational User Experience Platform from Google. Build brand-unique, natural language interactions for bots, applications, services, and devices.
h2o.ai - H2O.ai is a Visionary in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Science Platforms
Amazon Lex - Conversational interfaces for your applications. Powered by the same deep learning technologies as Alexa
Rasa NLU - Open-source language understanding for bots. A drop-in replacement for popular NLP tools like wit.ai, api.ai or LUIS
LUIS - Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS). LUIS lets your app understand language
ChatScript - Natural Language tool/dialog manager
IBM Watson - Enable cognitive computing features in your app using IBM Watson's Language, Vision, Speech and Data APIs
Botfuel NLP - Natural Language Understanding/Processing APIs
DeepPavlov - An open source library for deep learning end-to-end dialog systems and chatbots.

Bot building platforms

ManyChat - Create a Facebook bot to engage your audience. Send news and content, automate interaction and much more. Easy 2-minute setup. No coding required. Free
BLiP - BLiP helps you serve, engage and sell through conversations on your site and app, Facebook Messenger, Workplace, SMS, Email, Telegram, Twitter, Skype and other popular apps. All you need to create, manage and evolve your chatbot on the same platform.
Chatfuel - Build a Facebook bot without coding. Launch a full-featured chatbot in 7 minutes
Sequel - Create messenger bots with personality. Engage your fans and followers with intimate conversational experiences. It only takes minutes to build
bothaus.io - The Chatbot Augmentation Platfom. Build, enrich, deploy & monitor your chatbots and integrate with a range of services.
BotEngine - BotEngine is a natural language understanding framework that allows you to create intelligent chat bot for any service that will communicate with customers.
Meya - Make amazing bots. Build, train and host your bots using one platform
Morph.ai - Power of chatbots for your business.
Motion.ai - Chatbots made easy. Visually build, train & deploy bots to do just about anything
Dexter - Build and power a conversational engine for your brand
HelloStars - Create Engaging Conversational Bots. We help you make chatbots to replace webforms – no coding required
notify.io - Create Conversational Experiences with AI Bots. Our AI bots help publishers and retailers directly engage with customers via messaging and notifications
Converse - Start engaging with your customers today! Build intelligent chatbots easily with our Chatflow system
FlowXO - The bot platform for businesses
message.io - One bot, every platform. Expand your bot’s reach from a single deployment to a cross-platform giant with a single click using our revolutionary translation technology. Build it once and we customize it to work across platforms, giving you a single source to deploy, support and update
Parlo - Parlo is an enterprise chatbot platform for creating personalized brand conversations at scale
It's alive - Create a Facebook bot in minutes. Engage your Facebook community with automated content
Ubisend - We build world class chatbots to delight your audience and meet your KPIs ubisend develops enterprise grade chatbot and AI solutions that deliver intelligent, on-demand experiences across 29 channels
Recast.ai - Collaborative Bot Platform. Build your own conversational bot!
Octane AI - The Easiest Way to Create a Chatbot. Drive sales, capture leads, and increase engagement on your Facebook Page. Ready to launch in minutes
Rebotify - Rebotify helps you build chat bot in a fun way. Build once, publish anywhere. Your bots work with Facebook, WeChat and Slack simultaneously
Bottr - A bot is your smart digital avatar - it brings everything in one chat interface, learns by simply talking to you and represents you to the world 24/7!
Personify - Building a bot shouldn't be that hard. Create a white label AI-based bot without any code to automate your business sales and customer interactions
Botcamp - The most simple cross-platform chatbot API
ChatClub - Monetize your Facebook page and increase user engagement
TalkBot - Build beautiful bots with no coding. Just drag and drop
Chatteron - Build Facebook Chat bots in under 5 minutes! The best AI platform for building chat bots
Firebot - Chatbots for everybody. Build your own Facebook or web chatbot free and without programming
Conversable - Conversable is the enterprise conversational intelligence platform for creating intuitive, on-demand, automated experiences on any messaging or voice channel
HemenBot - HemenBot is a bot building platform, you can create a messenger bot in a few minutes. There is free and paid plans. Interface is Turkish but bots can work any latin languages.
Botsify - Create artificial intelligent chatbots without codingc
ChattyPeople - Facebook commerce solution with messenger bot, no programming required to build a Facebook bot without coding
Fred - Fred is an ecosystem with multiple platforms to build transactional channels through messaging
ManyBot - Telegram Bots
Mindiq - Facebook Bots
Gupshup - platform for building and testing bots
PandortaBots
Recime - We empower developers to quickly & effectively create serverless bots and deploy them across many channels at once.
MachinaBot - A Smart Relay Gateway Designed for Bots.
Coren - Coren allows both businesses and individuals to easily build & use chatbots to automate repetitive tasks, in an innovative way.
JetLink - AI powered messaging platform for easy commerce and better support.
Broid - Broid’s API enables bots & softwares to converse on more than 20 top messaging channels, including an interactive live chat (web & apps) powered by the best conversational features available. No more doc reading, coding and testing, leverage new channels with the flip of a switch on your dashboard.
WhatsHelp - Messenger Marketing Platform for marketers and entrepreneurs. Grow your subscriber list, create smart bots, and broadcast messages in just a few clicks.
BotNation AI - Bot building platform for engaging voice and text-based conversational apps.
CONVRG - Enterprise AI-powered chatbot and messaging experience platform providing personalized conversations that live on FMB, Kik, Webchat, Alexa and Google Home, integrates with CMS systems and E-Commerce platforms.
IBM Bot Asset Exchange
eXvisory - Visual framework for creating 'deep logic' product support AI chatbots able to match the BEST human troubleshooters

Personal assistants

x.ai - x.ai is a personal assistant who schedules meetings for you
Howdy - Meet Howdy — a friendly, trainable bot that helps Slack teams with work
Replika.ai - Replika is your AI friend that you teach and grow through conversation
Fin - It will help you remember everything. It will help you search your memory and the collective knowledge of everyone to help you find better answers. It will help you get things done. Fin uses a combination of computer and human intelligence to deliver the beginning of that future now
Microsoft Cortana - Cortana is a voice-controlled virtual assistant for Microsoft Windows Phone 8.1. Comparable to Siri, the intelligent assistant enabled on Apple devices, Microsoft's Cortana will use the Bing search engine and data stored on the user's smartphone by to make personalized recommendations
Siri - Talk to Siri as you would to a friend and it can help you get things done — like sending messages, making calls and finding restaurants
Mycroft - Mycroft is the world’s first open source voice assistant. It can run anywhere – on a desktop computer, inside an automobile, it even runs on a Raspberry Pi
Viv - Viv is an artificial intelligence platform that enables developers to distribute their products through an intelligent, conversational interface
Amazon Alexa - Alexa, the voice service that powers Echo, provides capabilities, or skills, that enable customers to interact with devices in a more intuitive way using voice
Google Home - Google Home is a voice-activated speaker powered by the Google Assistant. Ask it questions. Tell it to do things. It’s your own Google, always ready to help. Just start with, "Ok Google"
Magic - Magic is a special phone number you text to get anything you want, hassle free, 24/7
Sensay - Instantly connect with a real human whenever you need advice or inspiration. It’s anonymous, free, and works in your favorite messengers
HangoutsChatPollsBot - A chatbot that allows you to create and run custom polls within G-Suite Hangouts Chat environment

Payment & subscription services

Tap2Pay - Payments solution for chatbots
Paypal - Accept payments with one of PayPal's robust APIs. Open the door for Apple Pay, Android Pay, Venmo, and whatever's next with Braintree's SDK, or get up and running quickly with a simple checkout button on your site
Stripe - Stripe is the best software platform for running an internet business. They handle billions of dollars every year for forward-thinking businesses around the world
Braintree - An all-in-one payments partner

ChatOps

slack-deploy-bot - A Slack bot that helps you to deploy your apps
showcase-ansible-chatops - Vagrant Demo showing ChatOps with Ansible
lita - ChatOps for Ruby
yetibot - Extreme chatops, where chat ∈ {irc,slack}
lazlo - A chatops automation framework for Slack in Go
gochatbot - Chatops bot in Go
hubcommander - A Slack bot for GitHub organization management
slash-heroku - /heroku commands for slack

Bot Development

SDKs/Frameworks/Libraries

BotPress - An open-source ecosystem for developers to create, manage and extend bots
Botkit - Botkit is a toolkit for making bot applications
Bottie - simple rules based Slackbot with a basic chat based CMS inteface
Bottr - The world's simplest framework for creating Bots
Microsoft Bot Framework - SDKs for multi platform bots
Botmaster - A simple chatbot framework for serious projects
Alexa Skill Kit - Library for effortless Alexa Skill development with AWS Lambda
Node.js Messenger Bot - A Node client for the Facebook Messenger Platform
Telegram Bot API PHP SDK - Telegram Bot API PHP SDK. Supports Laravel out of the box
Wechaty - Wechat for Bot. Powered by WebDriver / Node.js / Docker
Hangoutsbot - Google Hangouts bot
Telegram.bot - Telegram Bot API - C# Client
claudia-bot-builder - Create chat bots for Facebook Messenger, Slack, Amazon Alexa, Skype, Telegram, Viber, Line, GroupMe, Kik and Twilio and deploy to AWS Lambda in minutes
botman - A framework agnostic PHP library to build chat bots
ChatterBot - ChatterBot is a machine learning, conversational dialog engine for creating chat bots
rust chatbot - Chatbot framework in Rust
python-telegram-bot - This library provides a pure Python interface for the Telegram Bot API
relax - Bots-as-a-Service for Slack
python-slackclient - Slack Developer Kit for Python
node-slack-sdk - Slack Developer Kit for Node.js
node-telegram-bot-api - Telegram Bot API for NodeJS
telegraf - Modern Telegram bot framework
telegram.bot - Telegram Bot API - C# Client
telebot - Telebot is a Telegram bot framework in Go
BootBot - Facebook Messenger Bot Framework for Node.js
slack-ruby-bot - A generic Slack bot framework written in Ruby
E.D.D.I - Enterprise-Ready Chatbot Platform for creating, running and maintaining customizable chatbots (Java)
BotStack - Ruby on Rails Framework
crystal telegram bot API - Telegram Bot API for crystal
Recime - A powerful platform for developers to build enterprise-grade bots. Recime provides the bot framework, developer tools, and a serverless cloud infrastructure.
PHPFaceBot - PHP Facebook Messenger bot framework/starter kit
TestMyBot - Automated Testing for Chatbots
Messaging APIs - Messaging APIs for multi-platform
Broid Integrations - Open Source version of Broid's API to converse on 20 top messaging channels with one single integration
Broid for Botpress - Broid Kit Middleware for Botpress
Broid Kit - Bot framework powered by Broid
YveBot - The simplest way to build a smart and customized rule-based bot conversation. For Browser & Node.
Bottender - Make Bots in Your Way, Fast and Flexibly.
Botomatic - PHP Framework for building Messenger Chatbots
Botfuel Dialog - Open Source Node.js SDK for building highly conversational chatbots
Telegram-Typings - A tool for parsing Telegram API page to the typings.
Chatito - Generate datasets for nlu chatbots quickly using a simple DSL.
Probot - SDK for building bots around GitHub workflows
wayback - An easier way to interact with several bots for wayback webpage

Boilerplates/templates

Tutorials/Guides

Useful articles

Comparison: ManyChat vs Chatfuel - ManyChat vs Chatfuel in-depth review & comparison.
Revenue models for bots and chatbots - In this article Amir Shevat from Slack has reviewed the direct and indirect ways that bots can drive revenue to a business.
How to Build a Basic Messenger Bot with ManyChat
How to Build a Basic Messenger Bot with Chatfuel
Design Framework For Chatbots

Agencies

Chatbot Developers on BotMakers - 157 (and counting) chatbot development agencies from the United States, Ukraine, Canada, UK, Brazil, India, Germany, Israel, France, Belarus, Italy, Austria and other countries.
Letzgro - With development team in Ukraine and availability throughout time zones, Letzgro gets hired for most critical web, mobile, video streaming and AI projects
Xbots - Xbots provides chatbot and conversational AI solutions for your business, personalizing the customer experience
Argoz - Powering natural language understanding with Artificial Intelligence
BotsCrew
imperson - Imperson's Conversational Bots converse in natural language tailored to your brand’s authentic voice, creating connections that translate to relationships
Sodima Solutions - We rethink how businesses interact with their customers. Tailored chatbot solutions for the ones that value customer experience & emerging technology
Alfabot - Conversational UX Studio. We build chat bots for the enterprise. We are focused on Facebook Messenger, Telegram and Slack
NLP Bots - NLPBOTS integrate with your online product or service; web, intranet or mobile, to give your users an always available help feature via an intelligent chat-bot interface. NLPBOTS continuously learn from their interactions with users and give businesses the opportunity to analyse and build on product or service features that drive efficiency and engagement.
BotCompany - Let your business talk. Deploy Chatbots to promote your brand, increase engagement, drive sales, talk to your customers at scale and get valuable insights from their preferences and behavior
Xandra Labs - Xandra is a global chatbot agency creating 'bot' personalities and designing conversations on AI platforms for brands and communities. We think accessing information and services should be as easy and fun as chatting with a friend
The Bot Studio - AI Powered Apps & Bots For the automotive & transportation
Chatbots Agency - The Chatbots Agency helps you develop your digital communication designs!
Foster.ai - Our conversational experiences improve customer engagement, drive repeat sales & reduce time spent responding to queries
Digital Engine - Make Your AI Chatbot. We build conversational AI and chat products
Atchai - We have experience developing AI chatbots for all the major messaging platforms including Facebook Messenger, Slack, SMS-based chat bots, and voice interfaces such as Amazon Alexa. We can help you understand whether a natural language interface is right for your use case, how to design conversations, and how to apply AI and natural language processing techniques
Sage Bots - We build the savvyist chatbots for the most innovative companies
Appartika - Creating chatbots for business-communications
Botego - We create smart products that make customers smile
AiChat Pte. Ltd - Empowering Conversational Commerce. Create, manage and train chatbot to engage your audiences
BotFather - Chatbots for brands
Botfuel - Enterprise-ready chatbots
ChatFirst LLC - A.I. Virtual Assistants for Your Business
Chatsuite - We create meaningful dialogues
Conversalab
Enterprise Bot - Create smart recommendations and customer service agents for your Business
Fastbot - Connect with your customers through messaging. Your customers are on Facebook Messenger, Slack, Kik and Telegram. You need to be too
Commons - Chatbots need to think before they speak. We made complex chatbots
Harlio bots - The revolution is coming. Explore new communication channels with your clients
Massively Inc - We make chatbots people actually want to talk to. Massively enables one-to-one conversations at scale. Our chatbots start smart and get smarter. They engage audiences deeply, make recommendations, play games, and deliver services. We help you save money, enhance customer service and increase sales
Mrbot.im - Intelligent chatbot development for any platform
Nimblestack - Nimblestack specializes in emergent technology in a fast, integrated manner by simplifying and automating software. We’re fullstack, taking care of both the frontend and backend of development. It’s our job to build software that makes other software. It’s up to you to make some cool stuff, we’ll handle the tech side of it
PullString - PullString leads the field of computer conversation with a combination of design & technology. Includes bot authoring, hosted AI & ML
QwipIt - Make Chatbots More Human by turning your brand's stories into conversations. QwipIt is an enterprise conversational platform, that can take the great content you're creating and turn it into conversatios with your biggest fans
Skilled Creative - Emerging Technology initiatives get your customers excited to hear from you. We are a Creative Agency that leads with Technology
The Chatbot Factory - We build smart and flexible chatbots
Turbo.ai - A bot for your business in minutes.
Voxable - Voxable builds conversational and voice interfaces for products
BotSupply - We Create Bots for Brands and Agencies
Unibot - We create personalized bots for businesses
BotCopy - A bot writing and design agency based in sunny LA.

Influencers/People

Dag Kittlaus - Co-Founder/CEO Siri & Viv Labs. Twitter Medium
Oren Jacob - Founder and CEO, PullString. Twitter Medium Facebook
Chris Messina - Invented the hashtag; X Uber; Xoogler. Twitter Medium Facebook
Sarah Perez - Reporter at TechCrunch. Twitter Medium Facebook
Amir Shevat - Director of Developer Relations at Slack; Former Developer Relations Program Manager at Google; Author of Designing Bots. Twitter Medium Facebook
Matt Schlicht - CEO of Octane.ai, Editor of ChatbotsMagazine, Forbes 30 under 30. Twitter Facebook
Adelyn Zhou - Co-founder of Topbots. X Nextdoor, Amazon & Eventbrite. Medium Twitter Facebook
Peter M Buch - Founder of Swell. Medium Twitter Facebook
Dmitry Dumik - Founder and CEO at Chatfuel. Facebook Medium
Josh Bocanegra - CEO of Persona Technologies. Twitter Facebook Medium
Mikael Yang - Co-Founder/CEO at ManyChat. Facebook
Ted Livingston - Founder and CEO at Kik Messenger. Medium Twitter
Anastasia Sartan - CEO/Co-Founder at Epytom. Linkedin Medium Facebook Instagram
Mike Melanin - Co-Founder at Statsbot. Facebook Twitter Medium ProductHunt
Eugenia Kuyda - Co-Founder and CEO at Luka. Linkedin Crunchbase Medium
David Marcus - Head of Facebook Messenger. Linkedin Facebook Twitter
Pavel Durov - Founder, CEO at Telegram; Founder, ex-CEO of VK. Twitter Instagram Facebook
Dmitry Matskevich - Co-Founder of Icon8. ProductHunt Twitter Linkedin
Mikhail Naumov - Co-Founder & President of DigitalGenius. Linkedin Twitter Facebook
Artyom Keydunov - Co-Founder & CEO at Statsbot. Linkedin Linkedin Medium Facebook
David Pichsenmeister - Co-founder of oratio; Organizer of ChatbotConf and BotsHackathon. Medium ProductHunt Twitter
Mike Gozzo - Co-Founder of Smooch Twitter Linkedin ProductHunt Medium
Mikhail Larinov - Head of Platform at Facebook Messenger. Facebook Twitter Linkedin
Ilya Gelfenbeyn - Co-Founder and CEO of api.ai. Linkedin Twitter Medium
Esther Crawford - ‎CEO of Olabot Linkedin Twitter Medium Facebook
Mariya Yao - Head of Research & Design at TOPBOTS. Linkedin Twitter Medium
Seth Louey - ProductHunt 2016 Maker of the Year Nominee; Co-founder of BotList. Twitter Linkedin ProductHunt Medium
Crystal Rose - Founder of Sensay. Twitter Linkedin
Pavel Doronin - Founder of AI Today/AI Community - RU/Chatbots Community Facebook
Alexander Gamanyuk - Founder of ChatBottle & BotMakers Linkedin Medium ProductHunt Twitter
Dan Gailey - Founder and CEO of RadBots Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Barbara Ondrisek - Co-Founder & CEO of Chatbots Agency, creator and cat mother of Mica, the Hipster Cat Bot Twitter Facebook Linkedin
Issam Hakimi - Founder and CEO of Broid Twitter ProductHunt Linkedin
Jesús Martín - Co-Founder of ChatbotTest Twitter ProductHunt Linkedin
Audrey Wu - Co-Founder and CEO at CONVRG. Worked at imperson, the company behind AI chatbots such as Miss Piggy, Zootopia (Judy Hopps) and Doc Brown from Back to the Future. Twitter Linkedin Facebook

Events/Conferences/Meetups

Chatbot Summit - Chatbot Summit Berlin is the second international Chatbot Summit destined to bring together the leading players of the newly formed Chatbot economy
ChatbotConf - The biggest chatbot conference in Europe. Vienna
Botness - Botness is a two-day gathering in NYC. Bot related startups, tools, bots for work and play, discovery, and engagement
BotDay - Bot Day offers the strategic and technical insight you need to start implementing AI-driven conversational interfaces that can talk to your customers, make your employees more productive, and streamline your business. SFO
Talkabot - Bots, conversational software and community. Conference
Bot Developers Meetup SF - We're a bunch of bot/ai/ml building enthusiasts from San Francisco that get together, hack, and demo what we're working on. Welcome! :)
Bots Berlin - This group is about how to design and develop products for these conversational platforms using AI, machine learning and natural language processing. We’re in the early days of the "bot economy" - so let's get together and make it happen!
BotBarcamp.Wien - 2 day event about chatbots, bots, AI, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Virtual Assistants, IoT/VR-bots in Vienna
BotsHub Vienna - Monthly event in Vienna
Chatbots Brazil - Brazil Community
Chatbots NYC - Meetup in New York City
Chatbots Paris - Meetup in Paris
Chatbots London - Meetup in London

Fundraising (accelerators, camps, capitals, funds)

BotFunded - List of latest fundings for bot startups
Alexa Accelerator - Offered in partnership with Amazon’s Alexa Fund, this program is designed to support early-stage companies advancing the state-of-the-art in voice-powered technologies, interfaces and applications, with a focus on Alexa domains such as connected home, wearables and hearables, enterprise, communication devices, connected car and wellness.
VoiceCamp - Accelerator for voice-based interfaces, including co-investors Lightspeed Venture Partners and Launch Capital. With the new co-investment, each participating company will now receive $200k as part of voicecamp
Alexa Fund - The Alexa Fund provides up to $100 million in venture capital funding to fuel voice technology innovation. We believe experiences designed around the human voice will fundamentally improve the way people use technology
TheVentury's ELEVATE Accelerator - Europe's first bot accelerator. Work with the brightest minds in the business to take your bot from prototype to product-market-fit in 6 months

Books

Create Convincing Computer Conversations - To help you write your own computer conversations, we collected some of the lessons we learned writing "Humani: Jessie's Story" and other projects and put it into this ebook
Voice UI Design for Alexa Skill Developers - This eBook was written based on our years of expertise in authoring human-fidelity computer conversation, and our experience developing The Grand Tour skill for Alexa
Designing Bots - This book is ideal for beginners and intermediate designers, as well as senior professionals exploring the conversational user experience paradigm. No coding experience or prior knowledge of conversational UI is required
Designing Voice User Interfaces: Principles of Conversational Experiences - Whether you’re designing a mobile app, a toy, or a device such as a home assistant, this practical book guides you through basic VUI design principles, helps you choose the right speech recognition engine, and shows you how to measure your VUI’s performance and improve upon it
Bot Business 101: How to start, run & grow your Bot / AI business - "I tried to cover every aspect of the Bot business such as choosing the right distribution channel, the correct approach to a potential client, pricing your Bot, designing a solid conversation flow, discovery, increasing retention and many others"
Conversational Interfaces: Principles of Successful Bots, Chatbots & Messaging Apps - Conversational Interfaces covers the evolution of messaging platforms like SMS, Facebook Messenger, Apple iMessage, Slack, Kik, and WeChat and how to create successful bots, chatbots, and messaging apps for each platform
Chatbots: 100 Successful Business and Brand Bots - In this book, we profile 100 of the top bots built on Facebook Messenger, Apple iMessage, Amazon Echo, Kik, Skype, Slack, and WeChat. We feature hundreds of actionable bot strategies that these brands have used to attract, engage and retain users
How to Build your First Amazon Alexa Skill - A book that explains the types of Alexa skills, how to build them and how to track user behaviour
Designing Conversational Interfaces - A book for designers, developers and founders containing practical guidelines about how to create messaging applications that people will love to use
Bot Theory - Bot Theory: A Concise Introduction. Defining the scope, components, architecture and relationships of bots and their environments
Building Chatbots with Microsoft Bot Framework and Node.js - A book that provides a Step-by-Step guide to building chatbots using the Microsoft Bot Framework and Node.js. The book also discusses the underlying architecture and design principles for building chatbots.
Building a Chatbot with Laravel and BotMan - "Building a Chatbot with Laravel and Botman" is a hands on guide to building your own personal chatbot. You'll learn how to onboard new users, allow them to access your latest articles, push out new articles in real-time and respond to small talk.
Conversational AI - A book that helps you design, build, train, and test your chatbot.

Communities/chats

Bot Designers, Developers & Marketers - Facebook community where experts share information, tactics and strategies for designing, building, and marketing bots.
BotCube channel on Telegram - 🤖 Bots, messaging apps, conversational interfaces, AI & ML — hot reviews & insights from industry experts 🤖
BotChat on Telegram - 🤖 Public chat where we discuss different topics about bots, bot development, platforms, news etc. 🤖
Bot Academy - Facebook community for people interested in bots and Facebook Messenger Marketing.
Bots group - Facebook - This is a private group for people interested in learning about and building chat bots
BOTS group - Facebook - Facebook group about chatbots
Chatbots News - An intelligent, supportive, and collaborative community for chatbot developers, designers, creators, and enthusiasts. Moderated by the Chatbots Magazine team
UX for Bots - Build together the best experience for bots! Share the best resources, discuss about UX & bots
HHBots - This group was created to provide a place for people to talk about their favorite facebook bots, slack bots, or any kind of bots!
Messenger Platform Developer Community - This is a forum for developers building on the Messenger platform to interact with the Messenger team and other developers
Botmakers - Slack community for bot enthousiasts, developers & marketers

Video Tutorials

Build Incredible Chatbots - The most comprehensive and complete bot developer course. Build & deploy chat bots for fun, business, and enterprise.
Creating Bots in the Microsoft Bot Framework Using C# - Get started creating your first bot with a built-in template. Watch helpful demos to learn about the many ways of communicating with the user, beyond just text, that Microsoft Bot Framework includes.

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