Summary: Learn more about ways to find bots from Botlist co-founder Seth Louey.<br> Mentioned in the episode:<br> Botlist.co<br> <br> Golden State Warriors bot<br> <br> Product Hunt<br> <br> seth at botlist.co<br> <br> Also, please find the whole transcript below.<br> <br> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMKedA1DzDw<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Hi everyone, it’s Balint from chatbottutorial.com and today I have a guest with me. He’s Seth Louey, he is the founder of the BotList.co and today we're going to talk about his experience with chatbots about BotList and in general about the design of bots.<br> <br> -Hi Seth, could you please introduce yourself in a couple of sentences for the people who don’t know you yet?<br> <br> -Sure. Hey I’m Seth Louey here, I am the co-founder of BotList. We basically are an app store for bots or I would like to say we try to connect humans to bots. We have been alive for about a year now, well a little over a year and we’ve seen some amazing things in the bot ecosystem and I'd like to think that we’re one of the best discovery platforms out there for bots.<br> <br> -Ok, awesome, thank you. I know you designed websites before. Did it ever occur to you that the websites should be more interactive and not the way they are?<br> <br> -Oh yeah. I could see this coming from many years away, actually when I first jumped on slack back in the day, I think it was like 3 or 4 years ago, we actually coded our own bot in slack and it was just something very fun to do, it was named Claptrap and it was just, you know, you could interact with it every day and it would just be a fun little tool to take away from, you know, work and it would be nice little break so we could definitely see in our action coming from a long way away, so yeah. It's an incredible time to be in the space.<br> <br> -Was there a need for you that you wanted to be more interactive with these forms or you just heard about it from somewhere?<br> <br> -You know, I think the thing is like everyday everybody is so busy and you know if we can make things easier with automation it would give you more time to do the things that you really want to do in life. You could definitely see the need for it, especially with multiple social media channels and multiple tasks, everyday everybody needs to work harder and faster but we don't really spend much time enjoying the everyday things, so when you automate some of your trivial tasks, it's better for you, you now, to spend a lot of time in life doing the things that you really want to do.<br> <br> -Yeah, that’s true, like the power of integration, so you can just see the IFTTT and …<br> -Zapier.<br> -Exactly, exactly. So, what was your first bot experience?<br> <br> - Well, before we launched BotList, we definitely tested a bunch of bots when they were first coming out, but before that I think the very first bot experience was the one when we built in our like internal communications and it was purely just for entertainment but I’d say, you know, the best integrations are the automated tasks like I said. I think IFTTT I wouldn’t necessarily call it a conversational bot, but I mean technically it is a bot when it automates a lot of stuff for you. So I would say very, very early on stages IFTTT was the first bot experience even though it wasn't really a conversational piece. So if you look at it in that sense, definitely IFTTT, but as for like a conversational UI, I think the posturing was probably one of the most memorable experiences, interacting with some of their, I think it was like Humanie (?) was their bot; that was probably one of the best experiences and one of those well factors of like ‘holy crap this, you know, conversational bot actually can just sit there and have a conversation with me’ and it's not real human so I think that was very exciting and the most memorable.
