Bruno Pedro (CTO) - presentation from APIDays Barcelona. Bruno talked through the history of chat and also announced the Hitch API Assistant, our new product to automate support for API communities.
2. ABOUTME
• 1995: Founded the Portuguese national IRC network
• Since 2004 has been building hundreds of API integrations
• 2015: Co-founded Hitch, API community & support platform
Bruno Pedro@bpedro
3. PEOPLE LOVETO CHAT
• 7.4 Billion people
• ~3 Billion Daily Active Chat Users
• 28.2 Trillion Messages per year
• Each user sends ~25 Messages per day
sources: BI Intelligence, Statista, eMarketer; values for 2015