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Show HN: Botpress – Open-Source Bots Platform Written in JavaScript (github.com)
33 points by slvnperron 3446 days ago
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I didn't look into the product itself, but the idea is absolutely genius.

You should build an 'app store' for bots, just like https://wordpress.org/plugins/.

hey! thanks man. We're working on this :)
That's awesome! What are the differences between BotPress and BotKit?
hey, thanks for your question! Botkit is mainly a conversation management framework. Botpress provides developers everything around bots development via modules.

For example you can build a subscription list, schedule messages, send broadcasts, have analytics, do A/B testing, have a built-in management interface, password protection etc. In fact, Botpress works very well in harmony with Botkit.

I would call it a complete framework (Botpress) vs a single library (Botkit)

Make sense!
Why would I use this versus the other frameworks out there?
What are your plans regarding support for NLP and NLU?
There's a module for Wit.AI and this morning we're also pushing a new module for API.AI
Cool, you should take a look at rasa_nlu (https://github.com/golastmile/rasa_nlu) as well, it's an open-source NLU solution.