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
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
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