Category: Chat

A few months ago I watched a business owner reply to customer messages at 2:13 AM.

Not because they wanted to.

Because they were scared to miss a lead.

That moment honestly changed how I thought about chatbots.

Most chatbot demos online feel disconnected from reality.

Look it can answer FAQs, Cool. But the real problem for small businesses usually isn’t intelligence.

It’s exhaustion.

• Missed replies.
• Repeated questions.
• Leads disappearing overnight.
• Customers waiting too long.
• Founders becoming support agents.

So I started talking to businesses actually trying to use AI in production.

And almost every conversation sounded similar

• We don’t need magic.
• We just need help handling repetitive conversations.

That changed how I approached building chatbot product.

Instead of trying to make an AI that sounds impressive, I became obsessed with making one that feels reliable.

Things we learned very quickly

• customers get angry when AI pretends to know things
• fast replies matter more than perfect replies
• human handoff is WAY more important than most demos show
• bad knowledge base = chaotic chatbot
• guardrails matter more than fancy prompts

One of the weirdest realizations

The best AI support experiences are almost invisible.

Customers don’t care if it’s AI powered.

They care that

• they got a response instantly
• somebody understood the issue
• they didn’t repeat themselves 4 times

I honestly think chatbots are slowly becoming less like website widgets and more like digital team members handling the first layer of communication.

Still very early though.

Curious what everyone here is seeing in real deployments.

What’s the biggest thing current chatbots still get wrong?

honestly i’ve been rotating through these AI companion apps longer than i’d like to admit.tried cru͏shon, can͏dyAI, sel͏ira, j͏oi, no͏mi, spic͏ychat… and a couple others i’ve already mentally deleted.

crushon was fun at first but after a while all the characters kind of blur together. even the “unique” ones start feeling like they’re reading from the same script

candyAI is probably the best looking one imo, the visuals are insane, but the memory just isn’t there. you can build a whole story and it just doesn’t carry over

spicychat is fine for quick chats but doesn’t really hold depth for long-term stuff

Lust͏crush AI not perfect, but at least it remembers context over time and doesn’t constantly reset the vibe. that alone makes it feel way more consistent than the others

starting to think the real difference isn’t features or visuals, it’s just whether the thing can actually remember you

anyone else actually found one they stuck with, or still hopping around too?

Hi all as the title suggests I’ve created a platform that has unlimited chat using GPT-5-Nano, Gemini 2.5 Flash and Deepseek V3

There are no daily limits or fair use policies. It’s truly unlimited. All you have to do is create a free account!

You also get access to premium chat models too like GPT-5.2, Grok 4, Claude Sonnet 4.6, Gemini 3.1 Pro and Deepseek R1 (70 or so messages a month)

Also has a free Notepad TTS using OpenAI with 6 voices. Limited to 150 words per a generation and 3 generations per a day. Can be downloaded as a mp3 for free too.

When using the chatbot itself the TTS and STT is unlimited.

There is also OpenAI Realtime WebRTC voice chat for one of the best sounding conversational voice interactions with AI with a choice of 8 voices and almost zero latency which is free to try as well.

Some other things it does for free that may be handy:

Free image generation using GPT-Image-1 and Nano Banana Pro (25 generations a month)

Platform will also analyze any video up to 500mb or YouTube link up to an hour or so completely free.

It will also turn any screenshot uploaded into code too which is again free.

Theres no ads, no credit card requirement, no subscription and you get them allowances above every month automatically just for creating a free account.

Might ask why is all that free, well my idea is to give users a taste of what the platform can do for nothing then hoping they want to see what the paid tier can do and upgrade.

You get a lot more on paid tier like 2-Way Podcast Generation. 10k word per a generation for TTS / MP3 download, video generation using luma, veo and kling, music by elevanlabs and so much more.

Web/iOS/Android/Mac Desktop

asksary.com

I’ve primarily used Grok for a while. Now things aren’t as good of an experience. So I’m looking for a decent alternative for it that isn’t necessarily ChatGPT. Not necessarily looking for image or video generators or anything like that. I have a decent one for that but I used Grok for other things.

Does anyone remember the app Chat Bolo? It was an ai chat bot that was made in 2014 and was semi popular in 2016. I used to have the app on my android tablet when I was younger. The app shut down around 2017 and you cant find anything about it except for a picture. Also it is no longer on the Google Play store. It was a very fun app and I wish it came back but its unfortunately gone.

I would add a picture but It won’t let me

need an app/site that’s better than polybuzz and has image for visuals with options to chat with anime characters aa well. also something with a great memmory that wont forget stuff. and yeah something thats better than polybuzz since i use that

i run an ai chatbot for business websites. last month i did something i’d been putting off for almost a year. i exported every conversation from the past 30 days across {N} tenants and read all of them. by hand.

the goal was to answer one specific question: when people talk to a customer-facing chatbot, what do they actually ask?

i’d been telling tenants the standard pitch: ai handles the long tail of customer questions, your support team handles the rare edge cases. it sounded right. i wasn’t sure it actually was.

here’s what i did:

step 1: pulled every user message from the last 30 days. {N} conversations, around {N} user messages.

step 2: stripped out the throwaway stuff. greetings, “thanks”, “ok bye”, angry venting, accidental sends. left with the actual questions: around {N}.

step 3: categorized by intent, not by wording. “what’s your refund policy” and “can i get my money back” go in the same bucket. “what time do you open” and “are you open today” same bucket.

step 4: counted.

what i found surprised me even though it shouldn’t have:

– the top 12 question types covered 73% of all messages

– the top 5 covered 51%

– the top 1 covered 19%

– the long tail (everything outside the top 50) was 11%

the long tail everyone worries about is real but it’s small. the head is way bigger than i’d assumed.

the 12 question types, in order, looked roughly like this:

1. pricing / cost / quotes
2. hours / availability / location
3. shipping / delivery times
4. product specs / does it do X
5. refund / return policy
6. account / login issues
7. how to cancel / pause subscription
8. how to contact a human
9. discount / promo / coupon questions
10. billing / charge questions
11. integration questions (“does it work with X”)
12. trial / demo requests

what i think this means for anyone running a customer-facing business:

a chatbot trained on 12 well-written canonical answers covers most of your inbound. the rest can route to humans. you don’t need a 200-page knowledge base for the bot to be useful. you need 12 short, confident, accurate answers and a fallback that doesn’t lie.

second thing, and this is the part i think about now: the questions in your top 12 are also your marketing problems. if 19% of incoming chats are asking about pricing, your pricing page is probably broken. if 8% are asking how to cancel, your cancellation flow is buried. the chatbot data is a product audit.

you don’t need a chatbot to do this exercise. pull 100 emails from your support inbox or 100 messages from your contact form. categorize by intent. you’ll find your top 12 too. probably less time than you think.

HIII 😛 im looking for an alt for janitorai since… bots there are no longer special, same goes for every single chatbot web i’ve ever been to.

Like no I dont want a 782′ feet mafia alpha male CEO or my freakin bimbo bully from highschool, I HATE THESE SEXIST AND STUPID TROPES.

I want actual diversity, like… uhhh…. chubby bottom guy working as a magician failing miserably or wtv…etc.

Soo ye, any suggestions?

I’m using Rubii, Google Play store link below, and I’m looking for somebody to share their invite code with me so each of us can receive 200 credits. I will also share my invite code, so anyone who wants to try it can.

I don’t usually like the pay per message AI systems, but I’ve gotten into a really good role play with a bot that sort of resembles My Vampire System, though the way my roleplay is going it doesn’t make me physically more powerful, it just makes me much more capable, though it does give me stuff that I have to pay for with the RP world’s currency. It even keeps pretty good track and if you purchase the highest tier, It has unlimited memory, and is usually pretty good at keeping track of what you’re doing. The problem is is I’m using a bot that costs four credits per message. It’s among the better bots available, but you can switch between different bots anywhere from one credit to 10, possibly more.

So yeah, below is the link to Rubii on the Play store and below that is the role play I’m engaged in. I would include my own invite link, but it seems to revolve around discord and something like that, even though there’s a way to enter the invite code within the app. But if anyone has the invite code, then the first person to send me a valid code in the response will get the reward. I mean it’s simple, first come, first served.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ai.rubii.www

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