Show HN: Interbot – Get work done right from your chat app

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by vinodhdavid • 12 years ago

72 41 12 years ago

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lexaude• 12 years ago

awesome. nicely done. noticed your launch on product hunt and waiting to see how this evolves.

vinodhdavid18• 12 years ago

Thanks! :)

shirman• 12 years ago

Without skin it looks like it's broken

vinodhdavid18• 12 years ago

I am sorry, what skin are you referring to?

akerl_4• 12 years ago

Would be nice if the page showed me what this gives me that any of the 1000 other bots don't give me (like Hubot).

Would be also amazing if it had source or some way for users to contribute their own integrations; is that in the pipeline?

vinodhdavid18• 12 years ago

Nice suggestion. Yes we would want to open this framework for custom integrations. We are trying to create a bot which is easy to setup and use with neat interactions. We will be doing this as a service integrating interesting commands and services. We would want to provide an easy way to add data to other team members eg: You can create an event and add your team members calendar too easily.

JangoSteve• 12 years ago

Looks nice, though it's unclear what the intentions are. Is this to become open source? Or are you going to start charging for it?

Also, any chance of adding support for the Kandan chat app?

http://kandanapp.com/

vinodhdavid18• 12 years ago

We don't have any plans of open sourcing it at the moment. We want it to be a service and it is free. Yup we are starting with slack and we have plans to integrate Chat apps which has the API option open :)

jalada2• 12 years ago

How about integrating with a protocol instead of adding value to someone else's product?

Have we not learned our lessons from how Twitter treated developers?

Enjoy getting shut off when Slack decide they don't want customers to be adding functionality without paying their per integration rate, or want to stop getting the support tickets from people using your service and confusing it with Slack itself.

StavrosK• 12 years ago

I made the exact same thing: http://www.getinstabot.com

I couldn't get anyone to use it, so I think you're fighting an uphill battle. Good luck, though,

vinodhdavid18• 12 years ago

Sure, thanks for your feedback!

syva• 12 years ago

Awesome! Please add Pivotal Tracker integration :)

vinodhdavid18• 12 years ago

Sure. We will can you add your feedbacks here? https://interbot.uservoice.com/admin/forums/271962-general

vinodhdavid18• 12 years ago

http://interbot.uservoice.com/forums/271962-general - The right link for feedback.

ben_straub• 12 years ago

Is this supposed to be "Hubot, but usable without hiring a developer?" There are lots of non-software companies that could benefit from chat-ops-like automation.

vinodhdavid18• 12 years ago

Yeah with good interface when you make mistakes and very simple to add data.

ar7hur• 12 years ago

I love this kind of service, but extensibility is probably the most important feature and unless I'm wrong, your platform is not open (yet). We developers all use different services.

Hubot is extremely simple (based on regular expressions to match commands) and quite successful because it's so easy to write and use your own module [1]. Hubot being free and open source, what is your differentiation plan? I'm sure there is room for different players.

[1] http://hubot-script-catalog.herokuapp.com/

vinodhdavid18• 12 years ago

We want to run this as a service, for eg with hubot you need to add the API keys in a config file which isn't that easy unless you have a dev to write something on top of it. We are planning to make the UX really simple on provide /pulling the data from your services.

akerl_4• 12 years ago

Adding API keys to a config hardly requires a dev.

And giving my API keys to you is much more dangerous.

GrinningFool• 12 years ago

Keep in mind that the people who have need of this kind of thing are typically dev , ops, or both. To neither group is updating a configuration file a major consideration.

It sounds like these may not be your target audience - but in that case, who is?

sciurus• 12 years ago

For anyone looking at Hubot who'd prefer to write modules in Ruby instead of Coffeescript, there's Lita.

https://www.lita.io

doomspork• 12 years ago

This is great, thanks for sharing! What I think I like most about this is project's emphasis on testing, something I've always missed in Hubot scripts.

Khao• 12 years ago

I don't really see the appeal of this because it looks like it's only good for one-liners. I'd rather have a complete interface that allows me to write a huge description, provide screenshots, link to other bug #s or githud commits, etc. It's a solution looking for a problem in my opinion because I would be pissed if all of a sudden all my issues, tasks and bug were one-line description. Please correct me if I'm wrong but that's what I get from the first impression of looking at your app.

vinodhdavid18• 12 years ago

We are just getting started but we have plans to build an interactive input methods where you can add more details to your apps. We do have plans getting there. We are initially mobile focussed.

nno• 12 years ago

I would like to see some kind of bot like this integrated do Telegram, is there anything?

thekylemontag• 12 years ago

Hubot as a service, but its pointed towards developers? Seems a bit odd.

You should try to target services that aren’t mainly for developers instead. (ie Salesforce, Zendesk, etc)

vinodhdavid18• 12 years ago

Yeah we are getting there we started with Trello and Google calender for that exact reason :) Thanks for hte pointer!

nchudleigh• 12 years ago

This seems really slick! Nice work!

vinodhdavid18• 12 years ago

Thanks :)

mring33621• 12 years ago

I think this seems like a great idea. But I have never worked one place that used any of the seemingly trendy integrations. How about Lync -> Jira, Confluence, Perforce?

vinodhdavid18• 12 years ago

Definitely in our plan :)

eramasz• 12 years ago

Hi HNs Interbot now supports Github and Evernote more apps soon to be added.

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