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ManyChat for Facebook Messenger — Create a Messenger bot to engage your audience. No coding!
Are you an online marketer? Or you just need to spread your information to a large group of people? ManyChat will help you build a Facebook Messenger bot easy and fast, just connect it to your account! That way you can expand your audience and grow your business. It has all the tools needed to engage and boost your subscribers!
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Chris Messina
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This is such a simple and effective tool -- and Mikael's expertise from Telegram is a huge advantage!
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Looks awesome! Do you plan on integrating Slack, SMS, and other bot channels in the future? Also I'm curious to see how you are thinking about the business model if you are willing to share. :)
@torbahax we already have a massive bot builder on Telegram, and yes, we are thinking about other platforms :) The business model is likely going to be a monthly subscribtion with a free plan always available.
@sandrojazzar glad you found it easy to use! We were working very hard to get the UX right.
We think that Facebook and other messaging platforms are going to open up more and more APIs and this will allow platforms like ManyChat to do more and more awesome things :)
Currently we are working on more feautures for audience engagement like polls, surveys, interactive content, etc.
A few questions. How do you turn it off? What if someone just messages you and doesn't want to sign up for the bot broadcasts?
Hey @mikedyang, congrats on the launch! Wish you all the best with your product! Will try ManyChat as soon as I have some free time :)
Hey Mike! Seems like you got easy-to create interface for broadcasting messages from brands. But what's the difference between ManyChat and Chatfuel?
@myakov great question! CF guys have built an awesome tool, but we are more focused on audience interaction and believe that our tool is easier to use.
Signed up, connected FB account, and then the tutorial begins. I get to the "Press the 'Send to Messenger' button to try it out" dialog, and I click "Send to Messenger," and nothing happens. Screenshot: https://img42.com/onh40
@zefareu can you message me on FB? Will try to solve this asap
http://m.me/mikedyang
@mikedyang @zefareu I got the same bug... Looks like a super cool product, can't wait to try it out.
@talsiach can you send me a message? trying to debug this right now. http://m.me/mikedyang
@mikedyang Looks great. For an idea i'm working on, i'd like to combine automation with human interaction. Is that possible. When someone asks something the bot can't answer, can the admin of the page step in?
Looks really great! I also liked the tutorial video, all looks quite easy to use! Do you plan to add other messengers?
@carolinamyakova thank you! Yes, we are thinking about other messengers as well.
Hi, just watched the video and looks like a cool product. However, i'm new to bots. How does it work? Does it send a message to all of your fans (people who liked your page) or do they have to send a message to the page? I see there's a subscribe button, but how do your fans recieve that message? And is it possible to send a message to all of them, whether they are subscribed or not? Not sure if i made my point very clear, i'm just curious how you reach your audience in the first place.
Congrats @mikedyang on launching ManyChat for Facebook messenger. It's by far the easiest facebook bot builder I've come across.
Quick question, What's the difference between not creating our own Facebook app and linking it to ManyChat like many other services do and not connecting an app at all like ManyChat is doing at the moment?
@justruky @mikedyang I guess its just way easier this way..I didn't have to worry about making an app or anything and I have a bot
@akshay2104 chatfuel requires you to make an app and connect it to their chatbot api, which requires facebook to approve the app that takes a lot of time, I find it's a killer feature that ManyChat doesn't require making an app and connecting it to their API. +1 @mikedyang
Hey Mike! Cool stuff. If I'm a small business or startup, how can I leverage ManyChat, or bots in general, to help my business, sales and customer support etc?
@eisforinnovate ManyChat is very versitile in terms of what you can do with it. From broadcasting content to your subscribers to creating a content catalog that can showcase your menu, for example, if you are a restaurant.
Also you can set up keyword replies to the most frequently asked questions, which will provide instant help for your customers.
Hey Product Hunters –
It’s Mike from ManyChat, and today we are excited to launch ManyChat for Messenger!
ManyChat allows you to create a Messenger bot without coding to engage your audience.
I know what you are thinking – “Another bot pitch?”… Yes. But we are different. We launched on Telegram 9 months ago (Manybot.io). Since that time we have grown to power over 155'000+ bots that send out over 600M messages every month.
Our main focus is on helping you engage your audience with features like:
✅Interactive Broadcasts
✅Scheduled Posting
✅Subscriptions
✅Keyword Automation
… and much more
We believe that messaging apps are going to be the next channel for content consumption and for audience engagement and we are helping creators and non-technical people leverage this platform.
We are taking everything that we have learnt on Telegram to create the best visual bot builder for Messenger.
Happy to answer any questions here or you can reach me directly at mike@manychat.com.
Short tutorial: How to create a Facebook Messenger bot without coding [5 mins]
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@aj_shewki great question. Later you will be able to do that. We already have Live Chat functionality built out and soon we will integrate it into ManyChat. So you will be able to switch between manual and automated mode.
Congrats on all the fast growth on Telegram and being early on FB messenger. Keep up the good work Mike & team!
@allnick great question – content broadcasting is allowed (we have CNN bot, WSJ bot, etc), it's the promotions and the ads that are forbidden.
@mikedyang so far loving the manychat bot for FB messenger. we're testing it out now to engage more with our users. i'm trying to create a button that uses a utm link and am unable to save it. any plans to allow this in the future? or am i somehow doing this incorrectly. thanks!
I tried to deactivate ManyChat and although it says it's not on my business pages, my customers are STILL receiving messages. After contacting customer service and their messenger "bot" I still can't get anyone to write me back to help. I tried reaching out to the co-founder, so hopefully he can help. I'm very surprised I'm not seeing more posts of more unhappy customers.
Pros:Easy to install
Cons:Impossible to deactivate, terrible customer service
Hi Alison, I'm really sorry that you've encountered these issues. Most of our customers are very happy with the platform, that is why we boast a 60+ NPS score, but I do understand that in some rare cases the system might not work as expected. If you still need assistance I would love to make it right for you. Please, message me directly: m.me/mikedyang. Thank you.