Early results of bot community survey show Messenger and Slack as developers’ top platforms

Botness, the influential bot-maker group whose leaders include Amir Shevat of Slack, Chris Messina of Uber, Jon Bruner of O’Reilly, and Andy Mauro of Automat, has released preliminary results of its survey-in-progress. Even while the current sample size was small — just 130 respondents, the findings represent what is likely the first self-cataloging of the nascent bots ecosystem.
The survey’s initial results show that the overwhelming majority of bot companies ar