Author: Ish Jindal
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ResumeBot — Time to refresh your Resume
Resumes in their current form have grown staid. The standard, one-page document listing out all your achievements is boring. Now that is not to say that it does not have its benefits. The medium is easy for recruiters to quickly skim through hundreds of resumes at a time. But what about when someone seeks you…
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Why India is ready for the Chatbot Revolution
During my last year in college, back in 2012, I bought my first smartphone. However, I didn’t quite know what to do with it at the time. As a student, I had no work emails and chatting via Whatsapp or Messenger was not an option since many of my friends didn’t have a smartphone (I’m…
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Pocket Aristotle : Personalised Teaching through Chat
The best way to learn a new concept is to have someone personally teach you. Sadly, however, good teachers are few and far between. To get around this problem, there exists a plethora of resources that aim to fill the gap. A quick explainer on Youtube, Wikipedia, Coursera and Khan Academy, are all workable and…
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This Chatbot tells you the best things that happened in 2016
2016 has been an eventful year. It has had its ups and downs… A lot of downs Some oranger than the rest 😛 Anyways. We are here to make sense of it for you. Check out a roundup of the top shows, technologies and events over an engaging chatbot. Here it is : https://hellotars.com/convBot/demos/2016_roundup/ Like this bot…
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How we went about creating Input UI Elements for our Chatbot Platform
Chatbots, as they exist today, do not have much capability to understand natural human language. And this is one of the main reasons why most of the messaging apps(Messenger, Kik etc) are resorting to a mix of graphical and text UI in their bot platforms — think of buttons, carousels, image cards and not just text responses.…
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[Case Study] How SecureNow uses AI to help more companies find the right insurance
Think about how much of a hassle it is to buy insurance for yourself. You’d probably google search “insurance”, click on the first link (maybe skip the ads out of an irrational disdain for them) and fumble your way around. Do you need a quote or do you need to talk to an agent? Looking…
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How Chatbots Make the Feedback Process Human
If you own a restaurant, you know that feedback is as much a hassle to collect as it is to give. It’s easy enough to get someone to check some boxes, shade in some stars, but meaningful qualitative feedback? Hard to find. The worst part is that customers more often than not have a feedback,…
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Open Letter to a Pitch Deck
Dearest Pitch Deck, We need to talk. You have served us well over the years but let’s face it : this was not meant to be. Slides were created as a supplement to our speech, not to express information on their own. You were meant to be used for in-person presentations, not decks over email. It’s…
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How Chatbots will disrupt governance and elections
When people ask me why they should use a bot, my answer is simple. Bots are engaging. Land on a webpage and you need to go through the effort of reading the content and figuring out exactly what is being told. Land on a bot and it will (ideally) tell you exactly what you need…
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How to Increase Conversion Rates on Mobile Landing Pages?
Google recently announced that Chrome now has more than 1 billion active users on mobile. This makes Chrome as big a platform as WhatsApp or Messenger or Instagram or Snapchat. It seems like a no brainer that every business should have a really good mobile experience. But this is not happening. I have talked to…
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5 Coolest Bots built using Tars
At Tars, we have been helping businesses build conversational bots for over a year now. And I wanted to share some of the coolest and interesting bots people have built using our platform. I have tried to cover diverse use-cases, to help you understand what all can possibly be done using this simple interface. So…
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[Case Study] On Empathy and Signups : How Sheroes uses chat
8% of Sheroes signups come in through chat. Find out why SHEROES is an online career resource for women with members from over 20,000 locations. They provide users with access to mentoring, workshops, job opportunities and answer common questions among other things. They help women navigate a job market by dealing with problems that are unique…
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