└── README.md /README.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # Conversational UI 2 | 3 | ## Apps and bots 4 | ### Standalone 5 | * [MedWhat](https://medwhat.com/). Virtual medical assistant. 6 | * [Quartz](http://qz.com/613700/its-here-quartzs-first-news-app-for-iphone/). Chat with the news. 7 | * [Operator](https://www.operator.com/). Buy anything, mainly from Amazon. 8 | * [First Opinion](https://firstopinionapp.com/). Chat with a doctor. 9 | * [Luka](https://luka.ai/). Restaurant recommendations in San Francisco 10 | * [Lark](http://www.web.lark.com/#top). Fitness coach. 11 | * [Hyper](https://www.usehyper.com). Flights and hotels. 12 | * [Pana](http://pana.com). Flights, hotels, recommendations. 13 | * [Lola](https://www.lolatravel.com/). Flights, hotels, recommendations. 14 | * [Hound](http://www.soundhound.com/hound) 15 | * [Fin](https://www.fin.ventures/). General meetings 16 | * [Penny](https://www.pennyapp.io/). Personal finance coach 17 | * [Little Bing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaoice) Microsoft 18 | * [Riley](https://getrileynow.com). Apartment hunting. 19 | * [Night Owl](http://www.heynightowl.com/). Homework help. 20 | * [Mezi](https://mezi.com/). Shopping assistant. 21 | * [Josh](https://www.josh.ai/). Home automation assistant. 22 | * [Evia](https://insurify.com/evia). Insurance assistant. 23 | * [MagicTiger](http://magictiger.com/). Order anything. 24 | * [Suto](http://asksuto.com/). Expert product recommendations. 25 | * [Bradley](http://www.heybradley.com/). Travel booking and recommendations. 26 | * [PadPolish](http://www.padpolish.com/). Housekeeping. 27 | * [HelloShopper](https://www.helloshopper.com). Gift ideas. 28 | * [Ava](http://www.heyava.com/). Find experts. 29 | * [TalkSpace](http://www.talkspace.com/). Talk to a therapist. 30 | * [Alice](https://couple.me/alice). An artificial intelligence partner. 31 | 32 | ### Bots on Telegram, Slack, WeChat and SMS 33 | * [Telegram bot store] (https://storebot.me/) 34 | * [DiggBot](http://digg.com/diggbot). News bot on Slack. 35 | * [Forbes on Telegram](http://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2016/02/23/introducing-the-forbes-newsbot-on-telegram/#1f4e3bf13117). Chat with the news. 36 | * [Skyscanner on Telegram](http://codevoyagers.com/2015/11/14/the-bots-are-coming%E2%80%8B-conversational-ui-and-introducing-the-skyscanner-telegram-bot/?linkId=19155965). Flights. 37 | * [Taylor on Telegram](https://taylorbot.com). Travel recommendations. 38 | * [Meekan on Slack](https://meekan.com/slack/). Calendar booking. 39 | * [Meekan on HipChat](https://meekan.com/hipchat/). Calendar booking. 40 | * [Magic on SMS](https://getmagicnow.com/). Do anything over. 41 | * [Cloe on SMS](http://www.meetcloe.co/). Calendar booking. 42 | * [Peter on email](https://hirepeter.com) 43 | * [Assist on SMS, Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram](http://www.assi.st/). Daily tasks like ordering flowers or a taxi. 44 | * [Birdly on Slack](https://slack.getbirdly.com/). Expenses. 45 | * [Digit](https://digit.co). Personal finance optimization 46 | * [Prompt on SMS](http://www.promptapp.io/help). Command line for the real world. 47 | - [Nestor on Slack](https://www.asknestor.me). 48 | - [Howdy on Slack](http://howdy.ai/). 49 | - [Gobutler](http://www.gobutlernow.com/). General assistant. 50 | - [Unload](http://unld.it/). Sell stuff with a text. 51 | - [Awesome PA](http://textawesome.co.uk/). Personal assistant for startups. 52 | - [Drinkeasy](http://drinkeasy.co/). Alcohol recommendations and delivery. 53 | - [Pro](https://pro.com). Home projects. 54 | - [Hello Hipmunk](https://www.hipmunk.com/hello). Travel booking. 55 | - [Sensei](https://sensay.it/). Help with anything. 56 | - [WeChat secretary](http://wesecretary.com/). 57 | - [Julia](http://getgems.org/julia/). Bitcoin teller. 58 | - [Dispatch](http://dispatch.pm/). Order anything from London stores. 59 | 60 | 61 | ### Calendar bots 62 | * [Clara](https://claralabs.com/) 63 | * [x.ai](https://x.ai/) 64 | * [Meekan](https://meekan.com/slack/) 65 | * [Julie Desk](https://www.juliedesk.com/). 66 | 67 | ### Bots from The Big Four 68 | * [Microsoft Tay](https://www.tay.ai/) 69 | * [Google Now and Search](https://www.google.com/landing/now/) 70 | * Amazon Alexa on [Echo](http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-SK705DI-Echo/dp/B00X4WHP5E), [Tap](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VXS8E8S/ref=fs_ods_fs_aucc_fx) and [Dot](http://www.amazon.com/b/?node=14047587011) 71 | * Microsoft [Cortana](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/mobile/experiences/cortana/) 72 | * [Facebook M](http://www.wired.com/2015/08/facebook-launches-m-new-kind-virtual-assistant/) 73 | 74 | ### Keyboards 75 | * [Wonder Keybaord](http://www.typewithwonder.com/) 76 | * [Slash Keybaord](http://tapslash.com/) 77 | * [Meet](https://sunrise.am/meet/). Sunrise 78 | * [WordsU](http://www.wordsu.com/). Write with different personas. 79 | * [Homer](http://homer.ms/). Conversation keyboard. 80 | 81 | ## Physical products 82 | * [Amazon Echo](http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00X4WHP5E) 83 | 84 | ## Books 85 | * [Wired for Speech](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001949SMM/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1) 86 | * [The Jack Principles](http://demos.jellyvisionlab.com/downloads/The_Jack_Principles.pdf) 87 | * [The Media Equation](http://www.amazon.com/The-Media-Equation-Computers-Television/dp/1575860538/ref=pd_sim_14_10?ie=UTF8&dpID=51KGobpmiqL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR106%2C160_&refRID=0E5AZXPPMAV64HF1GVT2). How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places. 88 | 89 | ## Often-referred-to articles 90 | - [Conversational UIs](http://interconnected.org/home/2015/06/16/conversational_uis) by Matt Webb. 91 | - [Futures of text](http://whoo.ps/2015/02/23/futures-of-text) by Jonathan Libov 92 | - [2016 will be the year of conversational commerce](https://medium.com/chris-messina/2016-will-be-the-year-of-conversational-commerce-1586e85e3991#.1lebb324y) by Chris Messina 93 | - [On Bots, Conversation Apps, and Fin](https://www.fin.ventures/letters/on-bots-conversational-apps-and-fin) by Sam Lessin 94 | - [Making a chat bot](https://medium.com/@rob_ellis/creating-a-chat-bot-42861e6a2acd#.i5ytqhgmj) by Rob Ellis 95 | - [Design is a conversation](https://blog.intercom.io/design-is-a-conversation/) by Emmet Connoly 96 | - [When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China](http://a16z.com/2015/08/06/wechat-china-mobile-first/) by Connie Chan 97 | - [Messaging and mobile platforms](http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2015/3/24/the-state-of-messaging) by Benedict Evans 98 | 99 | ## News 100 | - [Messaging Weekly](http://www.messagingweekly.com/). From the Smooch team. 101 | - Medium: [Conversational UI](https://medium.com/tag/conversational-ui), [Conversational Commerce](https://medium.com/tag/conversational-commerce) [2](https://medium.com/tag/convcomm), [Chat](https://medium.com/tag/chat), [Messaging](https://medium.com/tag/messaging) 102 | 103 | ## Movies 104 | * [Her](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/). 2013. 105 | * [2001: A Space Odyssey](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062622/?ref_=ttqt_qt_tt). 1968. 106 | 107 | ## For developers 108 | ### Natural language processing 109 | * [Wit.ai](https://wit.ai/) 110 | * [API.ai](https://api.ai/) 111 | 112 | ### Full service APIs and packages 113 | - [Microsoft Botbuilder] (https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder). 114 | - [Motion.ai](http://motion.ai/) 115 | - [Lobby Boy](http://supportkit.github.io/lobby-boy/). 116 | - [Smooch](https://smooch.io/). 117 | - [Rhombus](https://www.getrhombus.com). 118 | 119 | ### Hosting 120 | [Beep Boop](https://beepboophq.com/). Hosting for Slack robots. 121 | 122 | ### APIs 123 | * [Botkit for Slack](https://github.com/howdyai/botkit) 124 | * [Telegram Bot API](https://core.telegram.org/bots/api) 125 | * [Amazon Alexa Skills Kit](https://developer.amazon.com/appsandservices/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit). 126 | 127 | ### Examples 128 | - [Monica](https://github.com/zephrys/monica). Food ordering command line. 129 | 130 | ### UI Kits 131 | * [Atlas](https://atlas.layer.com/ios). Conversation list, chat, input. For iOS and Android. 132 | * [Chats](https://github.com/acani/Chats). Full open source iOS native chat app. 133 | * [ParseChat](https://github.com/relatedcode/ParseChat). 134 | 135 | ## Misc 136 | - [Ongoing Product Hunt Collection](https://www.producthunt.com/@chrismessina/collections/convcomm) by Chris Messina 137 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------