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In conventional web site administration, web developers build an admin site to perform daily tasks such as query how many members register daily and block a user. The admin site development includes frontend and backend codes. The slack developer can do the same thing without any frontend code. Starting from Feb 2019, Slack provides a very powerful and beautiful UI component (Block UI): In this blog, we will develop a Slack bot to tell you how many users register today, or block a user. Take a look to below video: What is Slack? Slack is a collaboration hub where you and your team can work together. Like Whatsapp group, our team 50% of workers are working remotely and all communicate in Slack workspace. Why Slack? Slack provides SDK for developers to develop applications. Below sections will show you how to develop a Slack Bot (Chatbot application). It works like a colleague to perform backend tasks. The bot can recognize below messages: How many users registered today? Block user NNN ...

What is the Chatbot CMS I’ve developed and launched a WooCommerce chatbot (WcBot) business in January 2018. It is a mass commercial product. The chatbot main function is to connect between the WooCommerce and Facebook Messenger. See below diagram: The target clients are WooCommerce store owners. WcBot is actually a WordPress plugin. When the clients installed and activated the plugin, the chatbot can be added to the store like below screenshot: Chatbot features The benefits of WcBot for the shop owner: 1. Instantly answering the messages sent from Facebook Messenger like: “Show me the products” “List the category” “Which product price under 30?” “How about the price between 10 and 20?” “Find product tshirt” “View my shopping cart” Example reply screenshot: 2. WcBot has a built-in shopping cart. Wcbot supports whole buying experience inside the chatbot. The whole buying experience means that allows end-users to: Add item(s) to cart Review/Modify shopping cart items Input billing ...

Wanted to start your online store business in a more modern, cheaper, stable, and secure way? This blog is a step by step guide to do:  Element  Function  Cost  GoDaddy Web-hosting  Host your website   US$1/month  WooCommerce E-commerce platform  Store management (products, orders)  free  ZeroSSL SSL certificate  Secure the transactions  free  Braintree Payment gateway  Accept credit card payment  free  Chatbot CMS WcBot  24/7 answer your customer questions  US$29, one-off Blog Disclaimer Notice This is not a GoDaddy Ad. I’m the chatbot author 1. Monthly US$1 web hosting Below is the slide shows you how to buy US$1 web-hosting from GoDaddy: (Click or left/right arrow keys to view next/prev slide) 2. Install WooCommerce GoDaddy web-hosting is ready, below is the slide shows how to install WordPress and WooCommerce: (Click or left/right arrow keys to view next/prev slide) 3. Generate a free...

This is a long Blog describes how I build my Chatbot (named I’m Simon Chatbot) to demonstrate below features: The Chatbot talks with human via Facebook Messenger Chatbot server app running NodeJS (with ExpressJS framework) Giving an A.I. brain to the Chatbot with RiveScript The Chatbot server App hosts in AWS Lambda (comply with serverless architecture) User state management persistent via AWS DynamoDB Use Serverless framework for easy App deployment 1. Create a Facebook Page I want my Chatbot could be interfaced with my Facebook friends via Facebook Messenger. First of all, I need to create a Facebook page required by Messenger Platform . I make a funny banner picture and avatar to the Facebook Page as below: 2. Create an Facebook App and configure the Messenger Platform To accomplish chatting in Messenger, Facebook requires a Facebook App to define the configuration of the Chatbot web service. I create the App from the Facebook Developer website . As Facebook developer documentation...