Comment by dfischer | Hacker News Reader

Comment by dfischer | Hacker News Reader

Personally I’ve been working on Chat based commerce in the U.S for over 5 years now... crazy. The adoption in US markets is definitely slower compared to SEA. Habits and behavior are much more in favor of mobile, and specifically chat for everything experiences in SEA. WeChat is the prime example that doesn’t have a strong comparison in the West.

However, the tide is here past the hype of “Chat Bots” and I’m happy to be working on this problem for helping people find jobs. Messaging is the ultimate form of UX. Communicate it, and it’s done.

At Edvo, we’re having a lot of positive feedback from the job seeker side over Messenger. We have a lot to work on still but, definitely see and feel the adoption of messaging based commerce and general ux.

It’ll be interesting how that transitions in a post mobile era. I’m excited!

> Messaging is the ultimate form of UX

Bold claim. I do not think this is true outside of very specific use-cases.

Retail customer support is one such use-case. In the Netherlands, national railway company, many banks, telecoms, etc - all have webchat/twitter dm/whatsapp contact options prominently displayed either alongside phone numbers or replacing them altogether:

https://www.ns.nl/klantenservice/contact

https://www.ing.nl/particulier/klantenservice

https://www.robinmobile.nl/klantenservice

It's the most used form of interaction. Text messaging.

If you’re interacting with a human, I’ll argue that synchronous messaging is the most efficient and comfortable way to communicate. Imagine how much faster customer service problems are to solve that way than with a ticketing system, email, or phone (where you have to wait on hold and one operator can only help one person at a time).

The biggest advantage of messenger apps is that they're both synchronous and asynchronous, depending on the client and user behaviour. I'm working at a place that builds a customer service platform based on connecting messenger apps to a web client for agents to work in. The speedup you notice compared to Callcenter agents is astounding - they can handle multiple cases simultaneously, without having to wait for individual customers. They, in turn, can respond whenever they like to. It's really cool!

Wait for Boeing to announce new pilot UX - no more that stupid screens, just chat bot.

Messaging : communication. Basically meaning not visual Ui. Communicate it and it is done. Input interface specific.

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