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abhilashmurthyon Ask HN: How do I pick a Chatbot vendor?

If you want better transparency and control over the NLP/intent recognition bits and you still prefer a rapid-prototyping no-code vendor, I'd recommend BotDistrikt.

abhilashmurthyon Ask HN: What is the best architecture for a bot running background service

Is there a reason you're not using a webhook to capture updates from the API? Or do you just need to keep polling?

If you need to just keep polling, I'd recommend using a managed background task service like SWF on AWS or Cloud Tasks on GCP. Not worth the trouble of debugging to build it yourself these days