Botlist — An App Store for Bots

We’ve seen an explosion of “all things bot” in 2016. There’s a post or thread everywhere that one turns their head. It’s all been haphazard and” catch as catch can” to get a handle on it

Yet, there has not been a decent third party bot directory until now

Ben Tossell, the community manager at Product Hunt has unveiled

Botlist — An App Store for Bots

Here’s Ben’s commentary on how the whole project came together in Ben’s own words:

Hello errybody.

First things first, credit to @mubashariqbal and @sethlouey with this — I came to them with this idea in January and without them this would be a google sheet and nothing more.

Came up with this, a third party site to host bots from the various platforms after the Slack App Directory came out and there was lots of talk around Facebook doing it with Messenger.

I’m sure others are working on this space too.

This is our very MVP version and a side project we have been chipping away at on weekends over the past few months.
There is lots in the pipeline and some tidying up to do:
- share buttons will be turned on today [EDIT] — Fixed!
- trying to figure the best way to add taglines without it looking hella ugly
- Mobile responsive

Timing is great for something like this. With the Kik launch of theirs last week and no doubt Facebook launching theirs tomorrow. Here is one not owned by the platform itself.

Big thanks to all the Alpha testers!

I also think its important to get into the maker process. Ask away :)

Folks, let’s get everybody on board with this and support the Botlist team, This could just become the “go to” resource that everybody has been looking for.

Please take a minute and pass the PH link on to your friends

Thank you!