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by neal_ 814 days ago
Appreciate it! Yea that video is pretty bad from a marketing perspective. I was kinda just thinking technical proof of concept shows it reading and replying...

Buttons and other actions are a bit tough. Currently it extracts the inner html from the chat wrapper div and gets all the text from the chat. This is great for being universal for different providers but it does have trade offs. detecting new messages can be tough if the inner html changes alot without an actual reply being received.... And depending on how the messages are labeled it sometimes has no way of detecting who is who, it relies mainly just off context.... Lots to improve. Overall supporting providers is good approach get alot of different website compatibility for integrating a single provider. So long as the customizations dont break anything. Main thing is making everything universal for it work on any site. That's the main challenge supporting lots of sites while still providing good context and the information needed. Appreciate the advice! I may post again when i have some of this stuff dialed in

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Don't worry, just know that once you publish like you did, you're doing marketing and you only get a few shots at those before losing credibility.

Keep it up and share it widely once it's really epic!