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Dexter 2.0 — All the tools you need to build a successful bot
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I've tried a bunch of the "Bot builders" and I can confidently say Dexter is both the simplest to use AND the most powerful one out there.
I stumbled across Dexter in January and got access to their beta. Since then I've built multiple bots for a variety of purposes.
Here's an example of one I built in a couple hours last week that already has 360 subscribers: https://len.suppo.co
I can't recommend this product enough! Congrats to the Dexter team.
I love the concept.
Rushed over to the docs and looked for examples. 4 / 4 of the walkthroughs http://docs.rundexter.com/walkth... are just placeholder links. I wish makers would stop doing that in 2003 :/
@pax_ Hey Alex - Good point. Lots of competing priorities as we got close to our launch, but we promise we'll add more materials there soon! In the meantime, if you click "New Bot" there are 4 templates that are pre-filled to get you going. We're pretty proud of the rest of our docs too ;)
@pax_ Hi Alex, walkthroughs have finally made their way out of 2003! My personal favorite is the Quiz Bot one here http://docs.rundexter.com/walkth... Hope you enjoy and let us know if there's any particular walkthrough you'd like to see next!
@angelwxyz perfect, added to my Pocket, looks exciting (almost literally :), very much looking forward to testing it – examples are best for somewhat-technical-but-not-ninja ppl like me that need a bit of extra confidence push to start fiddling around with new environments :)
You may remember the very early version of Dexter that was posted last year (with 800+ upvotes!)
It is the platform that was used to build Botwick (the bot for @borthwick )
Dexter, however is not like other drag and drop bot builders that I've used. This is more similar to using a CMS. I've been playing around with it and chatting with the guys there on some interesting features.
Excited to see what else comes from the team!
Thanks for hunting us, Ben!
We've been hard at work since last being on Product Hunt :)
The first version of Dexter had a broader scope, but after seeing that our users were most excited about the bot building aspect, we decided to narrow our focus. Still, our early experience helping users and brands build their first chatbots helped shape our core product philosophy and outlook on the space. We believe that it's important for Dexter to remain accessible to everyone (including those without previous coding experience) while maintaining extensibility for developers. And more importantly, we feel that even though these conversations might be automated, that humans should still play a part both by being able to monitor and refine the bot's language or even intervening when appropriate.
We're very excited for the @producthunt community to give us a shot. Looking forward to hearing feedback!
@danielilkovich would you rather fight one horse-sized duck or one hundred duck-sized horses?
@bthdonohue would you rather pin one really big thing on a board or several really small things?
@danielilkovich @producthunt congrats on the launch, Daniel and everyone at Dexter! so freakin' exciting!
As some may know, I've been using Dexter to build two fun bots (Botline Bling https://www.producthunt.com/post... and Boy Bye Bot http://boybyebot.com). For what it's worth, I know ZERO coding and only know how to write silly jokes, with my day job being a creative director for branded content at The Onion. (Even my skills for the latter are questionable. But that's another story.)
Point is: If I'm able to make a bot, anyone can. Seriously.
Congrats again on the launch, looking forward to making more stuff with y'all.
Long time supporter, first time commenter. Can we have an NLP module for 'did you mean xxx?' when the user mistypes something?
@tgerin It does work in some other languages. We've done a few builds in Spanish for example that have worked quite well. My español on the other hand could use some work. If you're looking for something in particular, drop me a line - brendan@rundexter.com
@marsnegrette still in beta testing for the partners, but here's a look at it working in the tester for you :) — https://cl.ly/1P1y1z2p181m
The Github Quick Start Guide on the website throws a 404 error when I try to open it.
@andrey_lukin Just moved those over — sorry about that! We're putting a redirect link there now: http://docs.rundexter.com/quick-...
@andrey_lukin Whoops, they were down for a second as we updated them. You should try again now :) http://docs.rundexter.com/
Seem to have stocked all that is required in one spot. Will it continue to be free from cost or is there any premium plans on standby? @bentossell @danielilkovich @bilko
@taha_tweets @bentossell @bilko There will always be a free plan, but we have paid plans as well: https://rundexter.com/pricing
This is literally the coolest thing I saw on PH lately. Congrats on the feature - trying it out right now!
Really nice implementation, the experience reminds me of using Ghost for the first time after migrating from Wordpress.
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