[HN Gopher] Show HN: A website chatbot that also uses APIs
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Show HN: A website chatbot that also uses APIs
Hi! "Another chatbot for your content" you may ask? Not really! Let
me explain. I have realized that there's an untapped potential for
ChatGPT plugins: why leave them locked up in the OpenAI store?
Let's embed them on websites or share using links! Let's make
chatbots ~ do stuff ~, not just talk about what they know. That's
how Chatwith was born. It is a chat widget, it scrapes your
website, knowledge page, notion etc - but more importantly, it also
understands your API. It can interact with that API on your or your
visitors' behalf. Some use cases & ideas: - Shopify bot - ask it
for order status and invoice - Realtor - ask for budget, provide
listings - Survey - ask questions, collect answers, submit to
Typeform - Airline service - get your boarding pass - Mixpanel -
talk to your analytics In other words: - Talk to APIs & hot data
- ChatGPT plugin on every website - Your SaaS can be a chatbot -
APIs made accessible (they were reserved for devs until now) -
Create an API, use chat as the interface - skip the frontend I am
trying to envision a future where website visitors are empowered to
just say what they want from the business - instead of navigating
endless dashboards and documentation. I'm looking for some
feedback about my product! lmk Rafal
Author : iamrafal
Score : 35 points
Date : 2023-08-14 12:08 UTC (10 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (chatwith.tools)
(TXT) w3m dump (chatwith.tools)
| sureglymop wrote:
| Off topic but is anyone else super tired of this generic looking
| product showcase page?
|
| I think that if I ever launch something I'll have to create
| something that looks completely different because here I got
| hired right at the rainbow colored headline.
| yu3zhou4 wrote:
| Sounds interesting Rafal! How feasible is that Chatwith will have
| access to more APIs than only mine, so it can perform more
| general tasks?
| iamrafal wrote:
| at the moment you can connect only one API, but that API can be
| just a wrapper for multiple APIs... So whatever you make your
| OpenAPI spec to be :)
|
| Having plug & play integrations is on my short term roadmap
| quan wrote:
| I created api2ai (https://github.com/mquan/api2ai) to solve
| this. You provide an OpenAPI spec and auth data to spin up an
| agent for your API. It's still low level and requires dev work.
| But I'm working on building tools to bring it to end users
| yu3zhou4 wrote:
| This looks really cool, thx. How good it performs in
| practice? What are current bottlenecks, if any?
| Ephil012 wrote:
| Out of curiosity, is this product page built with tailwind ui or
| something similar? I noticed a lot of product pages have a
| similar look (as another commenter mentioned) and I was curious
| what people use for these pages since it seems like they have the
| same ui elements like they came from some ui framework
| stringtoint wrote:
| Looking at the CSS using the browser dev tools, I see CSS
| variables like `--tw-border-spacing-x` which indicates to me
| that this is indeed using Tailwind. I've never tried Tailwind
| UI myself so I'm not sure if it's just Tailwind or Tailwind UI.
| willsoon wrote:
| I dont have a Gmail account. Is there any hope for me?
| iamrafal wrote:
| in the long term, there's hope!
|
| in the short, unfortunately, it's not viable for me to spend
| time on supporting another auth method
| antihero wrote:
| What could possibly go wrong?
| iamrafal wrote:
| so much can go wrong we live in exciting times!
| hkxer wrote:
| Website link isn't loading for me
| iamrafal wrote:
| https://chatwith.tools?
| iamrafal wrote:
| do you get any errors, or?...
| nine_zeros wrote:
| This is a great use case for generative AI. I can totally see
| companies using this as a service. Kudos!
| [deleted]
| startupsfail wrote:
| And the coolest thing, the whole project, starting from the idea
| to Wordpress configuration is entirely generated by ChatGPT ;)
| iamrafal wrote:
| yeah pretty much whatever work I do as a solo maker is putting
| my thoughts and ideas through ChatGPT to 10x
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