Nestor
Productivity
team assistant bot
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
3 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 5 critical, out of 19 comments about the project. Thread score -0.09.
Execution: 0 for, 5 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Friendlier and easier alternative to Hubot
From 1 comment
Looks cool. We're using Hubot more and more, but this does look like an easier, friendlier alternative. What's the pricing model? Is it hosted? How extensible / hackable is it?…
gingerlime on HN
Natural language interaction is appealing
From 2 comments
Neat. Would love to hear more about whether you decided to roll your own NLP or use an API.
deet on HNI really like the "The Office" chat usage example. That was a nice touch.
compostor42 on HN
Objections
Calendar integration did not work for one user
From 1 comment
Looks pretty cool! You might want to check out the calendar integration. http://i.imgur.com/iSagoii.png I connected my Google Calendar, but it doesn't seem to work.
gsharma on HN
Help site erroring and invites sent in bulk by mistake
From 3 comments
You guys just sent me like 100k invites lol
iamleppert on HNhttps://help.asknestor.me/ is erroring for me (Application Error)
PascalW on HNGot a DNS mail returned error.
NeckBeardPrince on HN
Stripe integration searched wrong year
From 1 comment
it looks like the stripe integration is searching in the year 2016 - http://cl.ly/image/3p1l1m2Z2b41 something you may want to take a look at
harrisgani13 on HN
Requests
Explain how messages are handled and privacy of listening to all messages
From 2 comments
Is there a reason you guys decided to have it "listen" to all messages as opposed to requiring a /slash command (which would then only send /slash messages to your servers?)
silverlight on HN"Your messages are not stored on Ask Nestor's servers and actions are only taken on direct messages to Nestorbot and messages that include Nestorbot." You have to DM or @ the bot.
aesthetics1 on HN
More detail on hosting, extensibility and team behind it
From 1 comment
Looks cool. We're using Hubot more and more, but this does look like an easier, friendlier alternative. What's the pricing model? Is it hosted? How extensible / hackable is it?…
gingerlime on HN
Questions
How will the product be monetized
From 1 comment
How are you going to monetize this?
fiatjaf on HN
Whether NLP is built in-house or uses an API
From 1 comment
Neat. Would love to hear more about whether you decided to roll your own NLP or use an API.
deet on HN
Alternatives named
Hubot
From 2 comments
What does Nestor offer over Hubot [+]? [+] https://hubot.github.com/
toomuchtodo on HNLooks cool. We're using Hubot more and more, but this does look like an easier, friendlier alternative. What's the pricing model? Is it hosted? How extensible / hackable is it?…
gingerlime on HN