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I really like the "The Office" chat usage example. That was a nice touch.

I don't see that example, where did you find it?

Should be on the right side of the page.

Ah yes! LOL, thanks.

(of the homepage, i.e.)

Can I be assured that if I tell this bot to get lost he won't take it literally and hide itself among all my other slackbots?

yes nestor doesn't take insults personally.

Depends on how hard you yell

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?)

"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.

What does Nestor offer over Hubot [+]?

[+] https://hubot.github.com/

* Natural Language instructions -- no need to remember commands, just speak to it like you would to a human. * Easier to integrate new services * No need to maintain servers

Thank you!

And it helps you cut down your to-do list. ;)

Funny that Hubot's homepage says they aim to "reduce employee efficiency" which sounds a bit counter-productive to me. ;)

Full quote: "Install him in your company to dramatically improve and reduce employee efficiency."

It helps employees slack better. /s

You guys just sent me like 100k invites lol

oh is it when you signed in here: https://help.asknestor.me ?

(edit: I'm using the slackin app: https://github.com/rauchg/slackin and looking into what happened)

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? Who's behind it? Would be great to get a bit more detailed info. I couldn't find much info on the page.

I'm one of the makers of Nestor (previously co-founded @nitrousio).

- Pricing model will be based on number of integrations that you have (there will be some integrations that are free to use: yelp, uber, etc.) - API is planned so that you can add your own services.

Join Nestor's Slack room https://help.asknestor.me for more info!

Edit: PS - If you'd like to try out Nestor without having to add it to your team, you can join this Slack: https://help.asknestor.me

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.

thanks for the report, looking into it!

edit: you can join the Nestor Slack: https://help.asknestor.me if you need more assistance.

https://help.asknestor.me/ is erroring for me (Application Error)

yup i was using slackin (https://github.com/rauchg/slackin) and i think there's a bug that caused it to send shitloads of emails to users so i've disabled it.

please email hello@asknestor.me for an invite to the Nestor slack.

Neat. Would love to hear more about whether you decided to roll your own NLP or use an API.

Great tool guys. Also named as me hahahaha hope the best for you! Good luck on the launch :)

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

thanks will look into it! pls join the nestor slack at https://help.asknestor.me if you need more help.

i was using slackin (https://github.com/rauchg/slackin) and i think there's a bug that caused it to send shitloads of emails to users so i've disabled it.

please email hello@asknestor.me for an invite to the Nestor slack.

Got a DNS mail returned error.

is Nestor named after the butler in the Tintin stories?

huge fan of the tintin comics :)

Then you should mention it somewhere.

How are you going to monetize this?

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