6 lessons from building my own chatbot

GUEST: Bots have captured the business public’s eye. Facebook opened up its Messenger platform to bots in April, and, since then, over 11,000 bots have reportedly been published.
To understand the promise of the bot platform better, I decided to write one myself. Over the course of a month, I built a bot that allows a user to search for concerts and sports events in their city. Here are a few lessons I learned.
Lesson 1: Pick a platform that’s easy
When I first started, I had to