[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":87},["ShallowReactive",2],{"post:\u002F2017-10-02-facebook-messenger-botathon-cpbr10":3},{"id":4,"title":5,"body":6,"date":78,"description":79,"extension":80,"meta":81,"navigation":82,"path":83,"seo":84,"stem":85,"__hash__":86},"content\u002F2017-10-02-facebook-messenger-botathon-cpbr10.md","2nd Place at the Facebook Messenger Hackathon at Campus Party",{"type":7,"value":8,"toc":74},"minimark",[9,17,23,26,32,40,43,48,51,57,62,65,68],[10,11,12],"p",{},[13,14],"img",{"alt":15,"src":16},"The team and other participants on stage at the Facebook Messenger Botathon, in front of a Submarino and BLiP backdrop.","\u002Fimages\u002Fcpbr10-botathon-team.webp",[10,18,19],{},[20,21,22],"em",{},"The team was awarded at the 10th edition of Campus Party Brazil (#CPBR10).",[10,24,25],{},"My name is João Dias and I was 18 at the time of the event. It took me exactly\n39 hours and 59 minutes to complete a challenge launched by Facebook, the\nFacebook Messenger Botathon, at the 10th edition of Campus Party (#CPBR10),\nheld in January and February 2017.",[27,28,29],"blockquote",{},[10,30,31],{},"Yes, we hit the submit button in the last minute.",[10,33,34,35,39],{},"Diego Rangel and Douglas Lacerda (two people I met at the conference who later\nbecame friends) and I competed against 95 teams from across the country. We won\nsecond place and took home the FbStart\nAccelerate track code, worth US$80,000 in investment to keep developing our\nproject: ",[36,37,38],"strong",{},"ezBOT",", a bot that creates automated messages for anyone running a\nbusiness page on Facebook.",[10,41,42],{},"Facebook had announced ahead of time that it would launch a challenge at the\nevent, though it hadn't said exactly what. It was during Campus Party that the\nworld's largest social network told the public what the challenge was: build a\nMessenger bot that solves a real-world problem and uses at least 6 of the\nplatform's features. Teams had up to 40 hours to pull it off.",[27,44,45],{},[10,46,47],{},"We spent nearly 40 hours at the workbenches running on coffee and energy\ndrinks. The adrenaline hit in the final minutes; my heart clenched at the\nthought of not finishing in time.",[10,49,50],{},"The project that took second place was built around a real need of Facebook\npage admins who run a business. The shortest way I can put it: \"it's a bot that\nbuilds bots.\" But to make it clearer what it actually is, take a look at how it\nworks:",[10,52,53],{},[13,54],{"alt":55,"src":56},"ezBOT Messenger conversation showing the automated-response template, with a \"Questions & Answers\" card the page owner can pick.","\u002Fimages\u002Fezbot-messenger.webp",[10,58,59],{},[20,60,61],{},"Screen showing the automated-response model, with questions and answers.",[10,63,64],{},"ezBOT lets a Facebook page set up custom interaction patterns with users who\nreach out via Messenger, like a virtual assistant. With ezBOT you can, for\nexample, create a set of questions and answers that come up often among the\ncustomers of a given product or service. So when a user contacts the page\nthrough Messenger, they get an automated reply based on what they asked. For the\nuser, that's a win in response speed; for the business owner too, since it makes\na good impression and clears up common questions very quickly. We built two more\nvirtual-assistant templates during the challenge as well.",[66,67],"hr",{},[10,69,70,73],{},[36,71,72],{},"Update:"," the project has since been discontinued.",{"title":75,"searchDepth":76,"depth":76,"links":77},"",2,[],"2017-10-02","How two people I met at the conference and I built a \"bot that builds bots\" in under 40 hours and took second place (and US$80k) at Facebook's Messenger Botathon.","md",{},true,"\u002F2017-10-02-facebook-messenger-botathon-cpbr10",{"title":5,"description":79},"2017-10-02-facebook-messenger-botathon-cpbr10","O9EY4S33NlbUpidDKdJmPv8tpFMt-m48SRccpn_U-CQ",1780086317115]