APIs and Bot revolution - Take Off Lille 2016

The bot economy is booming and It's happening thanks to APIs provided by the platform like Slack, Telegram or Facebook.

An easy way to launch your own bot is to piggy back on top on an existing API.

But is this API bot-ready? It is appropriate to be consumed by bots? How does the conversional aspect of bots impact the API design?

Presentation gave at TakeOff Lille 2016 (http://takeoffconf.com)

Transcript

1. APIs and the Bot Revolution Nicolas Grenié Hacker in Residence at 3scale @picsoung TakeOff 20th Oct. 2016 Lille, France How Bots are changing APIs
2. TakeOff - October 2016 Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung @picsoung
3. TakeOff - October 2016 Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung 3scale.net/jobs
4. TakeOff - October 2016 Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung
5. TakeOff - October 2016 Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung 700+ clients billions of API calls per month
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8. Bots
9. TakeOff - October 2016 Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung
10. TakeOff - October 2016 Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung SlackFund: $80 M to Slack Bot Startups
11. TakeOff - October 2016 Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung 350k new users each day 15Bn messages daily 100 million MAUs source: http://venturebeat.com/2016/02/23/telegram-now-has-100-million-monthly-active-users-a-60-increase-in-9-months/
12. TakeOff - October 2016 Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung 350k new users each day 15Bn messages daily 100 million MAUs source: http://venturebeat.com/2016/02/23/telegram-now-has-100-million-monthly-active-users-a-60-increase-in-9-months/ $1 million to Bot Devs
13. TakeOff - October 2016 Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung 900 million MAUs launched on April 12th 2016 10k+ developers Call of Duty bot exchanged 6M messages in a week source: http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/10/facebook-chatbot-analytics/
14. TakeOff - October 2016 Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung 300M users 6000 bots 215M users 700M users 2.9M users
15. TakeOff - October 2016 Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung It goes beyond text
16. TakeOff - October 2016 Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung It goes beyond text
17. Agenda 1. APIs are bot enablers 2. Bots are changing APIs 3. APIs as tools for bots
18. I. APIs are bot enablers
19. Bots without APIs are stupid
20. Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung TakeOff - October 2016 Birdly
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22. Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung TakeOff - October 2016 Poncho
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28. Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung TakeOff - October 2016 APIs for Bots " Platform APIs # $
29. Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung TakeOff - October 2016 APIs for Bots " Platform APIs # $ Data APIs ☼ &
30. Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung TakeOff - October 2016 APIs for Bots " Platform APIs # $ Data APIs ☼ & ' ( Action APIs
31. Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung TakeOff - October 2016 intelligence and data come from APIS
32. II. Bots are changing APIs
33. Bots will force you to change your API
34. Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung TakeOff - October 2016 UI ) *
35. Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung TakeOff - October 2016 CI +
36. Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung TakeOff - October 2016 + # $ ! " Conversational
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39. Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung TakeOff - October 2016 generic input
40. Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung TakeOff - October 2016 generic input easy win =
41. TakeOff - October 2016 Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung Example
42. TakeOff - October 2016 Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung Issues •Results are not organized ex. API search for “Uber” •Need another API call to refine result
43. TakeOff - October 2016 Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung Limited number of items
44. TakeOff - October 2016 Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung Sort by relevance
45. TakeOff - October 2016 Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung Hypermedia design
46. TakeOff - October 2016 Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung APIbunny Example built with
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49. III. APIs as tools for bots
50. Bots are your new API consumers
51. TakeOff - October 2016 Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung make the bot builder’s life easier
52. TakeOff - October 2016 Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung bot builders are your new audience
53. TakeOff - October 2016 Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung is your API bot ready?
54. TakeOff - October 2016 Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung
55. TakeOff - October 2016 Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung radical change in internet consumption
56. Takeaways •challenge your API on no-UI applications •target for bot usage •paradigm shift to CI
57. Microsoft Tay
59. Love bots
60. References Daft Punk by Kooroshication https://www.flickr.com/photos/ kooroshication/8881035467 (CC)