Show HN: Botlist – An App Store for Bots

Appreciate any thoughts anyone else. WE are all ears :)

Mobile responsive isnt in place yet so apologies for that.

Trying to get bots/AI from different platforms in one central, 3rd party place - not owned by Facebook/Slack/Kik etc.

We are looking to update more information - probably giving the bot makers the ability to take control of their page, add more info and images so hopefully that will help. Has been a time-consuming manual process so far.

Happy to hear feedback!

But yes, just a bare bones MVP for now

We hope someday it will become a fully fledged store, but for now we're working towards building a complete directory of bots available on every platform.

I realize a lot of hackers (I've argued with @patio11 about this) don't see the problem with those. Maybe because it's inconceivable to us nerds how anyone could be deceived by them. But some people are and I think the best of both worlds can be achieved by either saying "we" instead of "I" -- as in "all of us, including the program that sends these emails!" -- or just appending something like "This email is obviously automated but you can reply to it and it will go straight to me personally!".

There's also botpages.com discussed 3 days ago here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11456651

Next, any plan for validating bot's security and privacy? Rules for submission (must be open source etc?) Fake feedback is always a tough war in real monetize app store.