Ask HN: Bot to increase documentation usage and reduce support effort. Useful?

4 points by ptrenko 7y ago ↗ HN

Hi HN, We've built a prototype question answering bot in our team which can use your documentation as a knowledge base to answer questions asked by website visitors with 40% hard corrects and 20-30% soft corrects.

You simply put a Javascript chat plugin on your site, dump your documentation and it answers queries not unlike a domain expert even without keywords.

Here are a few (cherrypicked?) exchanges using Amazon Reviews as answers. It doesn't generate answers, but picks the best it can (out of 1000 total answers)

[Headphone]

Q: Does this work with OSX?

A: It works really well on my Mac [Learn More]

[Foundation Cream]

Q: Is this a sunscreen?

A: I don't think it has SPF [Learn More]

[Mobiles]

Q: Isn't it expensive?

A: I found it definitely worth the price [Learn More]

Would you pay 10 cents per response from this bot?

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n-gate 7y ago ↗

I would pay something. I have to evaluate more to decide how much and under what pricing model.

ptrenko 7y ago ↗

Thanks! Let me know what sector you're in and your website. Currently thinking of $50/500 query increments. Is that too expensive? Any model suitable to you?

How do I contact you? I'm building a product for businesses and would like to use this (when ready).

Please email me: abhishek.mitra.a1@gmail.com

Please let me know your time zone, and the date(s) and time you'd be free for a quick call regarding your requirements. We will be ready to launch in approximately 1 month. Most of the software is ready.