How To Develop A Facebook Messenger Chatbot With Zero Coding Knowledge or Experience
(Part III)
Last year, I published two articles related to Facebook Messenger chatbots without coding (Part I and Part II), and I got a good response from the audience. Today, I’m going to write more on that topic, and I will cover more tools related to bot development. As bots have begun to replace apps and websites, demand for bots is increasing by the day. Many developers have created tools that make bot developers’ lives much easier. So why not take advantage of those tools for bot development? Below is a collection of my favorite tools to create a chatbot without coding or developer experience.
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Botpress
Botpress is an open-source ecosystem for developers to create, manage and extend bots. Its MODULAR DESIGN assembles your bot from their collection of specialized, open-source modules that do one thing very well.
OPEN-SOURCE — choose an open-source, dual-license, free-to-most-users approach to boost transparency and collaboration.
GRAPHICAL INTERFACE — You shouldn’t have to choose between CLI or GUI. Every feature is available as an API and as a rich graphical interface. Buttress is not competing with other tools. It’s a modular platform that integrates with other popular tools and frameworks easily.
Ubisend
Ubisend is a single solution that allows you to message consumers through apps including Facebook Messenger, WeChat, Telegram, Line and SMS. Their one-click integration allows you to quickly speak to consumers in the platforms they know and love. Move your messages from websites and emails, into the palm of your consumers’ hands. It’s powering personalized communication, at scale and enables you and your audience to have effective two way conversations. You can use chat bot and messaging solutions to give brand a voice. Integration is smooth and simple. Create your account in minutes, or you can hook up with their tech guys if you want to discuss APIs and chat bots. It’ll give you all the information you need to analyze your results so you can re-iterate and test again.
Flow XO
A unique platform for building bots. Main Features of Flow XO:
- Truly cross platform — Be wherever your customers want to find you.
Build once and you’ll have a presence on web and in the messaging apps they support. - Bot + human hybrid /Automated or human — technology gives you the flexibility to build an automated (bot), human or hybrid messaging presence. It’s also easy (point & click).
- Complete flexibility — Use over 100 (and growing) built-in services & integrations. Access data from anywhere with their powerful HTTP integration.
- Reliability matters, Ready for business — Messaging has to be fast and reliable, always. That’s why their technology platform is built for scale and reliability.
Smooch
Smooch is one of the best software platform for building and operationalizing messaging experiences. It supports the largest set of channels and features and has the richest API and the most reliable infrastructure. It is a complete platform to add multi-channel messaging to your software or business.
Smooch gives you the power and flexibility to build B2C messaging for any use case. Whether you’re a software vendor, technology business, bot platform, or using messaging to expand your brand’s reach, Smooch’s robust API and integrations eliminate messaging complexity and help you build the best possible product or experience for your customers. Thousands of businesses differentiate their support experience, accelerate their acquisition, and deliver new innovative products and services with messaging by building on Smooch. There is a step by step by guide to build slack bot using Smooch.
Gupshup
Comprehensive, integrated framework messaging APIs and bot platform tightly integrated to provide a complete solution for developers. It has tools for coders and non-coders alike to simplify bot building.
Flow bot builder for non developers — Create your conversation flow with a graphical editor. Create detailed and advanced conversational bots using just point-and-click tools — no coding required.
Template bot builder for businesses — Choose from a list of pre-built bot templates, customize its content and instantly publish it. Launch a full functioning bot in minutes. Channels it supports: Facebook, Twitter, SMS, Telegram, Slack, Hip chat, Skype, Kik, Twilit, Line, Team Chat, Cisco Spark, Smooch, Jio, Google Home, Viber.
Bot Kit
Bot Kit is the most popular open-source toolkit for creating bots for messaging platforms. It provides a semantic interface to sending and receiving messages so developers can focus on creating novel applications and experiences. Bot Kit available for Slack, Facebook messenger, Twilio IPM, Microsoft Bot Framework.
In addition to this article, I’ve also made several video tutorials that help you to learn to build chatbot without any coding experience.
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