What Is FbStart & How Is It Useful for Bot Makers?

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Chatbots Magazine

5 min readMay 9, 2017

When we started Foxsy last year, we couldn’t imagine the progress that would happen. Our team is so thankful for all of the Foxsy users worldwide. Some people may know that we launched our service on Viber in April, and over 1,000 people have started using Foxsy via Viber every day. This progress has lead us to the next stage. We recently got accepted as a member of FbStart, which is truly an honor. It will help us provide our users with greater experiences and more meaningful matches.

What Is FbStart?

FbStart is a global program from Facebook designed to help startups build and accelerate their services and products. There are numbers of benefits of this program.

Global Startups Community

We can connect with an exclusive community of global startups through the online tools, meetups and other events, which is going to be a huge opportunity for us. There, we can exchange our ideas and experiences with one another. We are looking forward to showing all of you the progress.

Free Tools and Services

We have access to a free package of tools and services from Facebook and dozens of its partners including Amazon, Dropbox, MailChimp, Salesforce, Stripe, and UserTesting, that will increase our work efficiency. This means we can provide you with more frequent and state-of-the-art updates for match-making features.

Direct Support From The Facebook Team

We will also receive support, training, and year-round opportunities to connect directly with the Facebook team for technical and professional mentorship. We will be able to tap into their remarkable experiences and knowledge, which is going to be an excellent resource for us.

Bots From All Over The World

1. Foxsy

Foxsy is your matchmaker for new friends to chat with.
- Makers: The Foxsy team from Xpresso Inc, Jin CEO, Luke CTO, and Yoyo Bots Developer.
- URL: https://goo.gl/fC8LPL

2. Alfonsino

The best meals, from chat to your door, in minutes.
- Maker: Domenico Pascarella, CEO & Co-founder.
- URL: m.me/alfonsino.delivery

3. Growth Bot

The growth bot coaches startups and website owners on growing their business through feedback and growth techniques.
- Maker: gotcha.i0
- URL: m.me/gotchabot

4. DoctorBOT

Introducing DoctorBOT. We believe everyone should be able to find a doctor close by without leaving Messenger.
- Makers: Nirbhik Jangid, Pankaj Agarwal & Teja Mulagala.
- URL: m.me/DoctorBOTx

5. Sure

️Bot that curates the most Instagrammed food & drink spots
️- Founders/makers: Juraj Pal Alexandra Neczliová Sebastian Krumhausen
- m.me/surebot

6. ComicBot

Your favorite webcomics in your Facebook Messenger inbox.
- Maker: Silvio Do
- URL: m.me/thecomicbot

7. Artemis, Artnapper

Artemis is your personal art companion, who can tell you titles and sometimes even the artist of famous paintings. You can search artists by name too.
- Maker: Pamina Georg
- URL: m.me/artemis.artnapper

8. BotsMarket

A bot to create a bot in 30secs. Select Ready Made templates and select page to deploy and thats it the bot takes information from Facebook page and other sources based o template and is ready to go. Templates available for Travel, Events, Restaurants, Influencer and many more.
- Maker: Snehal Dhruve and Bineet Desai
- URL: http://m.me/botsmarketai

9. Promo Bot

Promo Bot is an A.I. for League Of Legends (Gaming), Giving recommendations based on big data analysis for champion selection.
- Maker: Amit Bendor
- URL: https://m.me/try.promo.bot

10. Booklist.ai

Discover new books, create reading lists, and share them too!
- Maker: Sheba Mayer
- URL: https://m.me/booklistbot

11. vimmune

Science-based Health and Wellness Advisor for the Family. Currently, the bot provides scientific information around everything related to Immunizations, Vaccine Safety, etc.
- Makers: Vivek Prasad and Ashutosh Prasad
- URL: m.me/vImmune/