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

compostor42 10 years ago |

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

glitcher 10 years ago | |

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

compostor42 10 years ago | | |

Should be on the right side of the page.

glitcher 10 years ago | | |

Ah yes! LOL, thanks.

iamclovin 10 years ago | | |

(of the homepage, i.e.)

SPD-13 10 years ago |

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 10 years ago | |

yes nestor doesn't take insults personally.

andrelayer 10 years ago | |

Depends on how hard you yell

silverlight 10 years ago |

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 10 years ago | |

"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 10 years ago |

What does Nestor offer over Hubot [+]?

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

iamclovin 10 years ago | |

* 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 10 years ago | | |

Thank you!

hongquan 10 years ago | | |

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

stephenhuey 10 years ago | |

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 10 years ago | | |

It helps employees slack better. /s

iamleppert 10 years ago |

You guys just sent me like 100k invites lol

iamclovin 10 years ago | |

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 10 years ago |

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 10 years ago | |

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 10 years ago | | |

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 10 years ago | | |

thanks for the report, looking into it!

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

PascalW 10 years ago | | |

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

iamclovin 10 years ago | | |

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 10 years ago |

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

nestorp 10 years ago |

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

harrisgani13 10 years ago |

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 10 years ago | |

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

iamclovin 10 years ago | | |

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 10 years ago | | |

Got a DNS mail returned error.

mkempe 10 years ago |

is Nestor named after the butler in the Tintin stories?

iamclovin 10 years ago | |

huge fan of the tintin comics :)

mkempe 10 years ago | | |

Then you should mention it somewhere.

fiatjaf 10 years ago |

How are you going to monetize this?