@lylemckeany ah thanks for the heads up! The site went down earlier too .. I've been very surprised by the traffic - it's been spreading like crazy on Medium and Twitter... in the past hour there were 2k messages to Messenger alone 😳

@tombielecki Ah, yes.... sometimes the initial response is slow and that can happen. Thanks for trying it out though! :)

@chrismessina Thanks Chris! I figure bots will soon be part of the recruitment process because they can: 1. answer recurring questions 2. provide more context for line items on a resume 3. give a sense of someone’s values and personality (to test out the cultural fit piece) Here's a more detailed explanation of my process (and how to build your own, in ~30mins!): https://medium.com/life-learning... And yes... v2 would need to go from a scripted bot to an agent-assisted or AI version in order to negotiate with HR! ;) Esther

@esthercrawford @chrismessina A recruiting bot is an idea that's been kicking around for quite some time here @smoochlabs. Lots of things to improve in the usual job application process and a bot should be able to do most of it.

@kvgauthier I know of at least one team working on the recruitment angle (@wadeandwendy). Although I haven't seen it in action myself I heard great things about it from @johnfrankel.

@chrismessina when can we remove humans from the chat platforms altogether and just have the bots talk to each other???

@chrismessina Is version 2 out yet?

I hung out with @esthercrawford in SF last week and was blown away from the early EstherBot she demoed to me, so excited that you all get to play with this. There are some powerful ideas here around sharing one's personal identity with a software agent. Where does the self end? As software becomes more intelligent, does the software we build become an extension of ourself? In this case it certainly does - because there is one hidden feature that Esther hasn't mentioned yet. Since EstherBot is built on Smooch.io, she's able to not only have EstherBot read/respond to messages sent by all of you - she's also able to synchronize these messages to software she can use to track and manage conversations (Slack in her case). This means that you can never really be sure if you're talking to the robotic Esther 🤖 or to the human Esther 💪 !

@esthercrawford I just chatted with your bot, and what I liked SO MUCH is how genuine you were. Your personal story was so interesting and really brave of you to share. Plus it leads well into your career. I feel like your bot really distinguishes itself because by the end of the chat I felt like I actually got to know you.

@jpvalery I'm on the free Smooch plan (up to 10k actives a month) and paid a minimal amount for a Twilio phone number ($1 number fee and $20 worth of sms - which gets me ~2700 messages). So the total investment was $21 to unleash the bot.

@steftheo11 You're 90% of the way there then! Just go into your @smoochlabs account and add in Facebook as a messaging channel. (You'll need to create a FB page to connect it to, if you don't have one yet.)

@amitkr No, you can just use FB via Smooch:)

@thisischrisbell yea! I've been surprised it's had over 500 messages in the last 24hrs and the biggest takeaway: humans go way off script and are quickly frustrated! Seeing people interact with it is a fascinating glimpse into human psychology. 😁

@ishu3101 here it is: https://github.com/esthercrawfor...

@thekyleduck What business case are you tackling?

@esthercrawford just for fun right now with potential freelance clients. going to integrate into inbounding new customers for app(s)

@adolfoalamo Yep. Free to create. Depending on the channel you may have a small fee – like Twilio is $1 for a sms phone number.