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Awesome bots 
A curated list of bot related resources (both chat and voice bots).
What makes for an awesome list?
Please read the contribution guidelines or the creating a list guide if you want to contribute.
Table of Contents
- Newsletters
- Podcasts and episodes
- Popular examples of bots
- Directories (lists)
- Bot platforms (to build for)
- Tools
- Sources (news, articles, blogs, resources)
- Job boards
- NLP (tools, engines, SDKs, frameworks)
- Bot building platforms
- Personal assistants
- Payment & subscription services
- Bot Development
- Agencies
- Influencers/People
- Events
- Fundraising (accelerators, camps, capitals, funds)
- Books
- Communities/chats
Contents
Newsletters
- Bot Weekly
- Chat Bots Weekly
- Botlist Weekly
- The Messenger
- Bot! zine
- Topbots
- Chatbots weekly digest
- BotBeat
- Hearing Voices
- Alexa News
- BotBeat
- Messaging Weekly
- Technically Sentient
- Locutius
Podcasts and episodes
- O'Reilly Bots Podcast
- BotCast from ChatbotsMagazine
- BotCast from oratio
- Bots Podcast with Jon Bruner
Popular examples of bots
Directories (lists)
Bot platforms (to build for)
- Facebook Messenger
- Slack
- Telegram
- Skype
- Kik
- Amazon Alexa
- Smooch
- Discord
- LINE
- Google Home/Google Assistant
- HipChat
- iMessage
- Viber
- Web
- SMS
Tools
Analytics
- BotMetrics
- Dashbot
- Botanalytics
- Facebook Bot Analytics
- Manner.ai
- ChatUrl
- Botlytics
- UxProbe
- DialogAnalytics
- VoiceLabs
- Opearlo Analytics
- Witlingo
- Chatmetrics
Marketing
Monetization
Prototyping
- BotSociety
- BotPreview
- BotMock
- BotFrame
- Bots UI Kit for Messenger Platform
- Layer Messenger design kit
- Convointerface
- Walkiebot
Testing
Internationalization
Customer service
Sources (news, articles, blogs, resources)
VentureBeat
TechCrunch
Medium
Other
- Botcube telegram channel
- Chatbots Magazine
- BotWiki
- The Complete Beginner’s Guide To Chatbots
- TopBots
- Chatbot's Life
- ChatbotNewsDaily
Job boards
NLP (tools, engines, SDKs, frameworks)
Bot building platforms
- ManyChat
- PullString
- Chatfuel
- Sequel
- init.ai
- GupShup
- ManyBot
- Meya
- Motion.ai
- Dexter
- HelloStars
- notify.io
- Converse
- FlowXO
- message.io
- Parlo
- It's alive
- Ubisend
- Recast.ai
- Octane AI
- Rebotify
- Bottr
- Personify
- Botcamp
- ChatClub
- TalkBot
- Chatteron
- Firebot
- Kitt.ai
- Botmother
Personal assistants
Payment & subscription services
Bot Development
SDKs/Frameworks/Libraries
- Microsoft Bot Framework
- BotPress
- Botkit
- Bottr
- Botmaster
- Alexa Skill Kit - Library for effortless Alexa Skill development with AWS Lambda
- Node.js Messenger Bot - A Node client for the Facebook Messenger Platform
- Telegram Bot API PHP SDK - Telegram Bot API PHP SDK. Supports Laravel out of the box
- Wechaty - Wechat for Bot. Powered by WebDriver / Node.js / Docker
- Hangoutsbot - Google Hangouts bot
- Telegram.bot - Telegram Bot API - C# Client
- claudia-bot-builder - Create chat bots for Facebook Messenger, Slack, Amazon Alexa, Skype, Telegram, Viber, Line, GroupMe, Kik and Twilio and deploy to AWS Lambda in minutes
- botman - A framework agnostic PHP library to build chat bots
- ChatterBot - ChatterBot is a machine learning, conversational dialog engine for creating chat bots
- rust chatbot - Chatbot framework in Rust
- python-telegram-bot - This library provides a pure Python interface for the Telegram Bot API
Boilerplates/templates
- Ruby Telegram bot boilerplate
- PHP Facebook Messenger chatbot boilerplate
- Facebook Messenger wit.ai node.js boilerplate
Tutorials/Guides
- The Complete Beginner’s Guide To Chatbots
- How To Develop A Chat Bot With Node.js
- Create smart Facebook Messenger Chatbot with Node.js and api.ai (NLP)
- Full guide on creating Telegram bot with Rails
- Creating a Bot using the Telegram Bot API
- Creating Chatbots For Discord
- A Slackbot in Elixir
- Facebook bot with visual recognition
- Build a bot in 2017
- Run Facebook Messenger Chat Bot on AWS Lambda
- Build, deploy and manage a Facebook chatbot using Node.js and Cloud 66
- Creating an Alexa skill with ASP.Net Web API
- Connecting Chatfuel with API.AI
- How to Code a Simple Twitter Bot for Complete Beginners
- The Secret To Making Your Own Facebook Messenger Bot In Less Than 15 Minutes
- How to create a chatbot without coding a single line
- How To Build Bots for Messenger
- Creating a Chat Bot
- A beginner’s guide to your first bot
- Pair Programming a Facebook Messenger Bot
- Facebook Chatbot Tutorial
Agencies
- Letzgro
- Xbots
- Argoz
- BotsCrew
- imperson
- Sodima Solutions
- Facebots
- Alfabot
- NLP Bots
- BotCompany
- Xandra Labs
- The Bot Studio
- Chatbots Agency
- Foster.ai
- Digital Engine
- Atchai
- Sage Bots
- Botogram
- Appartika
- UseBots
- Volt Soft
- Bot Machine
- BizBots
- BotLab
- Botego
- ChatFlow
- AiChat Pte. Ltd
- Alan
- Botfuel
- Bottomatik
- Chat Leap
- Chatbot México
- ChatFirst LLC
- Chatsuite
- Conversalab
- Enterprise Bot
- Fastbot
- Commons
- Harlio bots
- Massively Inc
- Mesasix
- Mrbot.im
- Nimblestack
- PullString
- QwipIt
- Robots & Pencils
- Skilled Creative
- The Chatbot Factory
- Turbo.ai
- Voxable
- BotCube
- Boter.chat
- BotSupply
Influencers/People
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Dag Kittlaus - Co-Founder/CEO Siri & Viv Labs. Twitter Medium
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Oren Jacob - Founder and CEO, PullString. Twitter Medium Facebook
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Chris Messina - Invented the hashtag; X Uber; Xoogler. Twitter Medium Facebook
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Sarah Perez - Reporter at TechCrunch. Twitter Medium Facebook
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Amir Shevat - Director of Developer Relations at Slack; Former Developer Relations Program Manager at Google; Author of Designing Bots. Twitter Medium Facebook
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Matt Schlicht - CEO of Octane.ai, Editor of ChatbotsMagazine, Forbes 30 under 30. Twitter Facebook
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Adelyn Zhou - Co-founder of Topbots. X Nextdoor, Amazon & Eventbrite. Medium Twitter Facebook
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Josh Bocanegra - CEO of Persona Technologies. Twitter Facebook Medium
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Mikael Yang - Co-Founder/CEO at ManyChat. Facebook
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Ted Livingston - Founder and CEO at Kik Messenger. Medium Twitter
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Anastasia Sartan - CEO/Co-Founder at Epytom. Linkedin Medium Facebook Instagram
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Mike Melanin - Co-Founder at Statsbot. Facebook Twitter Medium ProductHunt
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Eugenia Kuyda - Co-Founder and CEO at Luka. Linkedin Crunchbase Medium
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David Marcus - Head of Facebook Messenger. Linkedin Facebook Twitter
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Pavel Durov - Founder, CEO at Telegram; Founder, ex-CEO of VK. Twitter Instagram Facebook
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Dmitry Matskevich - Co-Founder of Icon8. ProductHunt Twitter Linkedin
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Mikhail Naumov - Co-Founder & President of DigitalGenius. Linkedin Twitter Facebook
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Artyom Keydunov - Co-Founder & CEO at Statsbot. Linkedin Linkedin Medium Facebook
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David Pichsenmeister - Co-founder of oratio; Organizer of ChatbotConf and BotsHackathon. Medium ProductHunt Twitter
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Mike Gozzo - Co-Founder of Smooch Twitter Linkedin ProductHunt Medium
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Mikhail Larinov - Head of Platform at Facebook Messenger. Facebook Twitter Linkedin
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Ilya Gelfenbeyn - Co-Founder and CEO of api.ai. Linkedin Twitter Medium
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Esther Crawford - CEO of Olabot Linkedin Twitter Medium Facebook
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Mariya Yao - Head of Research & Design at TOPBOTS. Linkedin Twitter Medium
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Seth Louey - ProductHunt 2016 Maker of the Year Nominee; Co-founder of BotList. Twitter Linkedin ProductHunt Medium
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Pavel Doronin - Founder of AI Today/AI Community - RU/Chatbots Community Facebook
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Alexander Gamanyuk - Founder of ChatBottle & BotMakers Linkedin Medium ProductHunt Twitter
Events
Fundraising (accelerators, camps, capitals, funds)
Books
- Create Convincing Computer Conversations
- Voice UI Design for Alexa Skill Developers
- Designing Bots
- Designing Voice User Interfaces: Principles of Conversational Experiences
- Bot Business 101: How to start, run & grow your Bot / AI business
- Conversational Interfaces: Principles of Successful Bots, Chatbots & Messaging Apps
- Chatbots: 100 Successful Business and Brand Bots
- How to Build your First Amazon Alexa Skill
- Designing Conversational Interfaces
Communities/chats
- Bots group - Facebook
- Telegram channel about bots
- Public chat about bots
- BOTS group - Facebook
- Chatbots News
- Open Chatbot
- UX for Bots
- HHBots
- Messenger Platform Developer Community
License
