[HN Gopher] Typebot: A conversational form builder that you can ...
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       Typebot: A conversational form builder that you can self-host
        
       Author : thunderbong
       Score  : 61 points
       Date   : 2022-03-26 13:09 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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       | productceo wrote:
       | In the demo, first question was "What's your name?". I wrote,
       | "I'm James", and it responded, "Nice to meet you, I'm James".
       | 
       | A dad joke bot!
       | 
       | But I think this simple example suggests conversational forms can
       | be unintuitive for consumers, and it can be more costly for both
       | the asking side and the answering side to communicate the same
       | information.
        
       | kingcharles wrote:
       | They probably shouldn't embed a live, unmoderated version of
       | their AirTable db on their front page. Some of the results
       | displayed there are... interesting..
       | 
       | "Cum guzzling is fun"
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       | "Reddit makes me moist"
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       | "I'm pooping"
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       | "Cunt"
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       | https://airtable.com/shr8nkV6DVN88LVIv/tblehvqqwBsnlMiCB?bac...
        
       | awinter-py wrote:
       | this looks great. I like that it exports json, would be cool
       | (from my narrow perspective) if json spec + gui were side-by-side
       | and you could edit either.
       | 
       | I think more sites are going this way (bitrise mobile builds is
       | an example; theirs is still clunky but getting there). Have been
       | tinkering with 'json first admin', a toolset for hosting config
       | schemas and providing semi-automatic gui previews (v1) and edit
       | controls (v2).
       | 
       | I wonder how much of nocode will converge to 'declarative config
       | with minimal custom logic', rather than 'gui first / gui only'.
       | 
       | But this is very slick, good work.
        
       | pixelatedindex wrote:
       | Not bad but trying it out on mobile the UX isn't as good as I
       | expected it to be
        
       | sorenbs wrote:
       | Really cool project! I like this new trend of building SaaS
       | products as open source, and still delivering a hosted free tier.
       | https://cal.com/ is another example of this. And super proud that
       | both are using Prisma!
        
       | welklkjlerg wrote:
        
       | daenz wrote:
       | I was just looking for a solution in this space, but I want a
       | strong and stable API. This API mentions that it is a "work in
       | progress"[0] unfortunately. Does anyone have a comparable
       | solution that focuses on an API?
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       | 0. https://docs.typebot.io/api
        
       | whoopdedo wrote:
       | That "stay up to date" section with the animated image. Are we
       | really treating Github like Youtube now?
        
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