Show HN: Nestor – Your team's intelligent assistant on Slack

[iamclovin]

https://www.asknestor.me/join/hacker-news

[compostor42]

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

[glitcher → compostor42]

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

[compostor42 → glitcher]

Should be on the right side of the page.

[glitcher → compostor42]

Ah yes! LOL, thanks.

[iamclovin → compostor42]

(of the homepage, i.e.)

[SPD-13]

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?

[iamclovin → SPD-13]

yes nestor doesn't take insults personally.

[andrelayer → SPD-13]

Depends on how hard you yell

[silverlight]

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?)

[aesthetics1 → silverlight]

"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.

[toomuchtodo]

What does Nestor offer over Hubot [+]?

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

[iamclovin → toomuchtodo]

* 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

[toomuchtodo → iamclovin]

Thank you!

[hongquan → toomuchtodo]

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

[stephenhuey → toomuchtodo]

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."

[sukruh → stephenhuey]

It helps employees slack better. /s

[iamleppert]

You guys just sent me like 100k invites lol

[iamclovin → iamleppert]

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)

[gingerlime]

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.

[iamclovin → gingerlime]

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

[gsharma → iamclovin]

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.

[iamclovin → gsharma]

thanks for the report, looking into it!

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

[PascalW → iamclovin]

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

[iamclovin → PascalW]

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.

[deet]

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

[nestorp]

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

[harrisgani13]

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

[iamclovin → harrisgani13]

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

[iamclovin → iamclovin]

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.

[NeckBeardPrince → iamclovin]

Got a DNS mail returned error.

[mkempe]

is Nestor named after the butler in the Tintin stories?

[iamclovin → mkempe]

huge fan of the tintin comics :)

[mkempe → iamclovin]

Then you should mention it somewhere.

[fiatjaf]

How are you going to monetize this?