Chatfuel
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Chatfuel is the leading chatbot platform for Messenger
Ivan Zamesin

Chatfuel for Messenger — The intuitive bot builder with AI navigation

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Dmitry Dumik
Hey everybody - Dmitrii from Chatfuel here – thanks for your great feedback and upvotes! We very much believe in the bot future (just like probably many of you). Started on Telegram about a year ago and now have more than 150K chatbots created, today rolling out to the Messenger. We want to enable anyone with no programming skills or servers to build bots, that's why we strive to make it very simple, intuitive and visual. Lots of cool features are available right now: customizable AI (just like TechCrunch bot m.me/techcrunch), integrations (Youtube, Instagram, Twitter, etc), content collections, broadcasting and many more. We host your bots and the service is free. We are working hard on rolling out more features and would love to hear your feedback on what's missing. I’m personally very excited to interact with all of you and hear what use-cases you have in mind and answer any questions you may have! Feel free to reach out to me personally at d@chatfuel.com or m.me/dumik P.S. Check out the video on how to create your bot in less then 10 minutes:
Dmitrii
Costa Caruso
@ddumik @chatfuel Very cool! But how have you survived this long with no monetization? Do the custom bots for the big brand publishers provide enough to keep the lights on? I'm always afraid of building on a platform that is free with no paid plans.
Karthik Varma
@ddumik @chatfuel Super cool. But what about the support ?
Dmitry Dumik
@costayolo @chatfuel we are well funded and plan to monetize later on via providing additional optional paid features.
Dmitry Dumik
let me know if any detailed questions
Jake Cohn
Going to be trying this very soon. Curious to hear your thoughts. What do you think is more important for bots: timeliness or very high relevance?
erwin blom
Love it, though a little problem. Dmitry Dumik any idea? "When testing on FB Messenger and clicking on menu it says 'user unknown' Any idea?"
Dmitry Dumik
@erwblo should be fixed not, please let me know
Pedro Pinto
I've been testing this bot builder during the last week and it's really simple and intuitive and the support is great. Their bot builder for Telegram is really good too.
Sean Wiese
I posted this question to Twitter as well, but all these builders need to consider how to handle the ongoing management of bot content. i.e.: I built the bot with Chatfuel easy enough, but I am not the primary marketing person that will be updating the Q&A nature and links within the bot itself. Need a way to share a dashboard for the content management.
Dmitry Dumik
@dswiese it's on our backlog, thanks for the suggestion. Will be implemented soon
Uri Eliabayev
Great product. I have started to play with it yesterday and i was managed to complete 65% of my bot in few hours - really intuitive and easy to learn. I really loved the option to broadcast a message to the users (though scheduling one didn't work). Chatfuel also helped me register my bot (saving my hours). this the second bot developing platform that i have used so i have something to compere. keep the hard work!
Dmitry Dumik
@urieli17 Thanks, Uri! Please keep sending your feedback so we can improve and we have exciting new features coming soon!
Ben Tossell
There goes my weekend... but when I login and select tutorial bot - it gives me an error 😭
vipul mishra
@bentossell Same here.. Is there anyone who can help us started quickly? May be @ddumik can help. There are few issues with Facebook integration ( submission to be precise )
Ivan Zamesin
@bentossell Hi Ben, hope you'll enjoy Chatfuel on your weekend. :) Sorry for the bug, already fixed! btw, check out our tutorial video:
vipul mishra
@ivan_zamesin Thanks @ivan_zamesin !! Successfully created a chat-bot.. Loving it so far. Have to create a screencast of sample chat convo for FB app submission. Will keep you posted with the progress.
Mike Pascoe PhD
Just discovered Chatfuel this week and am using it to create a bot for my anatomy courses. Have you seen anyone using this in education yet?
Dmitry Suholet
I enjoy using the constructor. Of course it has some bugs, but your team fix them super quickly. Really enjoy the level of your support.
Mark Thomas McEwan
@ddumik @ivan_zamesin @wladyslaw_fedorov if you guys plan on turning free users into paid users you have to get into the community and start responding to support queries - it's a graveyard for questions in there, email support is the same, void.
Dmitry Dumik
@marktmcewan @ivan_zamesin @wladyslaw_fedorov Sorry to hear that and apologize for the inconvenience cause. We've been experiencing significant growth and are catching up on the support side as well. I'll make sure your inquiries are responded.
Aaron Altscher
Really cool product. What type of businesses will best utilize this service? Mostly retail/restaurant? Is this meant to replace an olark or live person service?
Andrew Yaroshevsky
@aaron_altscher There are many use-cases, we keep analyzing what works best. It's not meant to replace olark or liveperson, we believe it complements those with proper integration.
Gabe
Really cool! You were smart to see the bot trend coming and developing this nice platform! I'm gonna try it! 😄 #botinvasion 🤖🚀
Rushabh Doshi
Chatfuel is a easy to use platform. I have some feedback after using chatfuel to create a my double: https://medium.com/@rdoshi190/cr...
Dmitry Dumik
@rushabh_doshi @rdoshi190 great, please send your feedback out way! m.me/dumik or contact@chatfuel.com
Ivo Dimchev
Just finished creating my first bot - now in test phase and hopefully will set it live sometime in the upcoming weeks. Did this for a music discovery platform where often bands submit music by sending us messages on Facebook. Will definitely help things out! So far - the experience has been rather smooth.
DemonicCil
Just a question. How are you guys different from Api.ai? I am evaluating these platforms and quite interested in hearing what you guys have to say. :)
Lennon Jesus

Very easy to start. Free plan is a good option for begginers.

Pros:

Easy to use

Cons:

No cons

Sean Wiese
Waiting for my approval from FB right now, after building with Chatfuel!
Sean Wiese
and approved today by chance.....
Dmitry Dumik
@dswiese congrats!!! what's the name of the bot?
Pedro Pinto
@dswiese What's the name of the bot?
Sean Wiese
@ddumik - sry for the delay, waiting for sign off from stakeholders, but really simple Q&A bot about our services.
Sean Wiese
@pmcpinto sry for the delay, waiting for sign off from stakeholders, but really simple Q&A bot about our services.
Osoba Osaze

It's been a really good experience with the platform. Unfortunately, support can be a little slow to reach

Pros:

Very easy to use

Cons:

Support is a little slow

Egor Rimskii

Greetings,

I will be more that happy to rate the chatfuel like very good and usefull service.

But, I've no any ideas how I can and more customers from all the world can contact with support of chatfuel for resolve issues with Zapier services.

Dear chatfuel team HEAR your customers. We NEED YOUR HELP!

CHATFUEL DOESN'T WORK WITH ZAPIER RIGHT NOW since 5 of augusxt.

Pros:

Chatfuel doesn't work with Zapier

Cons:

Very important for all community!

Tristan Pollock
VERY excited to try this today.