Sparky

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  sparky

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  FB Messenger

Inspiration

Buying a Smart Home device (or any electronic device) can get complex, there are lots of options, many brands, compatibility issues, features, and specs. Sometimes even a sales person can't help you unless he really loves his job. So we decided to build a bot that learns about you and then sifts through all the products to select the best for you. Learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMG90X1fch4&t=19s

Demo

https://youtu.be/UplPJaPxbvQ

How I built it

The code is available at https://bitbucket.org/slickblox/lexbot

Challenges I ran into

• Lex was tricky to debug
• navigating up and down the conversation was hard, like changing intents or nesting bots within bots.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

• being able to get the bot running quickly

What I learned

• How to deal with AWS Lex and FB Messenger
• The capabilities and limitations of bots

What's next for Sparky

• adding more devices and smarter questions

Built With

• lex