txtai VS ChatBotKit

I tend to agree with this sentiment. Many junior devs and/or those in college want to contribute. Then they feel entitled to merge a PR that they worked hard on often without guidance. I'm all for working with people but projects have standards and not all ideas make sense. In many cases, especially with commercial open source, the project is the base of a companies identity. So it's not just for drive-by ideas to... - Source: Hacker News / 17 days ago

Bootstrapping only works if you have the runway to do it and you don't feel the need to grow fast. With NeuML (https://neuml.com), I've went the bootstrapping route. I've been able to build a fairly successful open source project (txtai 6K stars https://github.com/neuml/txtai) and a revenue positive company. It's a "live within your means" strategy. VC funding can have... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

I agree that in many cases people are puffing their feathers to try to be something they're not (at least not yet). Some believe in the fake it until you make it mentality. With NeuML (https://neuml.com), the website is a simple HTML page. On social media, I'm honest about what NeuML is, that I'm in my 40s with a family and not striving to be the next Steve Jobs. I've been able to build a fairly successful open... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

I'll add txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai) to the list. There is still plenty of room for innovation in this space. Just need to focus on the right projects that are innovating and not the ones (re)working on problems solved in 2020/2021. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Nice project! I've long used Tika for document parsing given it's maturity and wide number of formats supported. The XHTML output helps with chunking documents for RAG. Here's a couple examples: - https://neuml.hashnode.dev/build-rag-pipelines-with-txtai - https://neuml.hashnode.dev/extract-text-from-documents Disclaimer: I'm the primary author of txtai ( - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Yes of course. We have done this before. Check out https://chatbotkit.com in particular https://chatbotkit.com/examples/travel-experiences. There are multiple ways this can be achieved depending on your data. If your data is already available in some sort of API that can be queried the simplest way is to use a skillset. The bot will be able to pull the requested information and talk to the user about it. Source: about 1 year ago

Maybe build your own with chatbotkit.com? Source: about 1 year ago

We are excited to announce the launch of ChatBotKit - a no-code conversational AI platform for building chatbots, customer support agents, study assistants, and much more! ChatBotKit is an easy-to-use platform that allows you to connect with other platforms such as Zapier, Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, Notion, and many others, making it easier to build an army of agents that do things on your behalf. Our team has... Source: about 1 year ago

Also chatbotkit.com if you are looking for something more professional with strong focus on APIs and integrations. Source: about 1 year ago

Https://lindy.ai/?kid=2NAN3C - worth a look if your time management, like mine, is critical to your weekly schedule and task list. Source: about 1 year ago