Well 40 dev hours of labour later and our first prototype is ready! This is really the day and age that you can just build almost anything. The services that the the cloud providers offer allow any developer to build something that scales without worrying about complex infrastructure. (and get hacked with the Meltdown / Spectre fiasco)

Its been great getting initial feedback and hopefully we find some users who see value in our product.

Getting facebook approved

For other developers out there thinking of making a messenger bot I highly recommend apply for approval early. Prototype a few quick replies and then quickly screen cast a scenario depicting your message subscription and start getting facebook approved. Your bot will change this just removes the impediment of not being able to go to prod early enough.

Look forward to seeing any feedback and I’ll be posting some simple facebook bot setup repo examples using AWS serverless lambda infrastructure in the coming weeks.