Author: Ish Jindal
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Chatbot Building Best Practices #1 — Message Delays
If you are reading this piece, I assume that you have already made a bot. If you have not, click here to make one right now. Creating a bot is not like creating an app or a website. The design choices you have to make deal more with how the user feels when they read your…
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Can Chatbots replace your Pitch-Deck?
It might be time to give your deck another look. When you send a deck to a potential client or an investor, what are you hoping to achieve? You want to tell them a story. In the case of an investor, you want to tell them the story of your company so far and to a…
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Chatbots Roundup #6 — Learn the best practices to make a Bot
Wondering how to step your bot game to the next level? You’re in the right place. Welcome to yet another Tars Bot Roundup. Here are our selections for the week: Baer on Marketing Baer on Marketing helps companies figure out the puzzle that is marketing. Their bot, acts as a personal way to get to…
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Chatbots Roundup #5— Bots for Airport, Medicine Ordering and Booking Homeservices
Another week passes by and you guys create more amazing bots. Here are four more bots that display the best bot building practices : Bro4U Bro4U helps its users find the home services from a list of highly curated providers. Their no nonsense bot is a simple, but effective example of how to make a reservation…
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Chatbots Roundup #4 — Bots in Legal, Healthcare and Lead Generation
Over the past few months, people have used TARS to create some amazing bots. We feel that these bots deserved to be seen by more people, so here is a weekly roundup of 4 bots that caught our eye. Who knows maybe they will give you inspiration for your next bot? Here they are in…
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Buying Insurance is boring…but Chatbots can make it suck less
If you wanted to buy health insurance, how do you do it? I’d probably Google search “health insurance”, click on the first link (maybe skip the ads out of an irrational disdain) and reach a website that looks something like this: Once here, I find that I am woefully unprepared to carry on. What is…
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[Tars Feature Update] — Image Cards as the new Input UI
We have now launched the capability in Tars Bot Builder to add Image Cards(see the image below) to your bots. This is how Image Cards look like on the chat interface. When giving users fixed options as an input UI, we understand that buttons on their own are not always the best way to express…
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[Tars Feature Update] — Change system messages to your own language
Hey Bot makers! We hope your bot-y exploits are going well and can’t wait to see what you guys are making. We wanted to let you know that we are pushing a new feature today : Ability to change bot language A lot of you guys have been asking for this and we have been listening.…
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[Tars Feature Update] — ConvBot Widget
If you have created a bot in TARS’ bot builder till now, you will know that there are two ways you can share your bot. We provide you with a creating a convbot link that you can share with people directly. Or use the html code to put a chat button on your website that…
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[Tars Feature Update] — Rich Text Editor
If you have built a bot already on TARS’ Bot Builder, you will know that bots can communicate using images and text. A little known feature however was that text could be marked up using html markup to create richer text experiences. To simplify this process we are announcing the implementation of a new rich…
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Chatbots Roundup #3 — Meet the Chatbot Family
Did you hear? Elon Musk started a company that aims to merge human beings and AI. Seriously, I am not kidding. It is called Neuralink. Some one should tell him he is a bit late to that one. My cat merged with my robot vacuum cleaner years ago. Anyways, in the spirit of our cyborg…
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Chatbots Roundup #2— Cool bots built using Tars
About two months ago, we released our Chatbot Builder Tool that allows you to build bots with no coding required. In that time, a lot of you have built some really cool stuff and we wanted to share it with everyone. Here are some of our favourite bots. Improve your memory First up we have my…
