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I'm sorry but Kik didn't predict the Rise of Chat Bots. Kik basically looked at WeChat and said we should do that. Same as Facebook and the others. WeChat showed that micro-apps inside a chat interface worked for their target market. The key is to understand the needs of WeChat's target market and figure out the overlap with the US market then figure out the unique needs of the US market.

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All of them probably looked at IRC bots.

As a lesson in how not to do it.

How else would you do it?

Everything is crap 5-10 years after it's written.

The leap forward wasn't the tcl code quality, but an order of magnitude forward in what bots allowed to be possible in providing security to irc channels along with a host of other solutions simply was unparalleled.

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