Learn best practices for building bots by focusing on the technological implementation and UX
in this practical book. You will cover key topics such as setting up a development environment
for creating chatbots for multiple channels (Facebook Messenger Skype and KiK) building a
chatbot (design to implementation) integrating to IFTT (If This Then That) and IoT (Internet
of Things) carrying out analytics and metrics for chatbots and most importantly monetizing
models and business sense for chatbots. Build Better Chatbots is easy to follow with code
snippets provided in the book and complete code open sourced and available to download. With
Facebook opening up its Messenger platform for developers followed by Microsoft opening up
Skype for development a new channel has emerged for brands to acquire engage and service
customers on chat with chatbots. What You Will Learn Work with the bot development life cycle
Master bot UX design Integrate into the bot ecosystem Maximize the business and monetization
potential for bots Who This Book Is For Developers programmers and hobbyists who have basic
programming knowledge. The book can be used by existing chatbot developers to gain a better
understanding of analytics and the business side of bots.
