Briefing for the lemmings.io summer program on building bots and apps on top of all major messaging platforms (Facebook Messenger, Skype, Telegram, WeChat, Kik, …). Presentation design & structure: @@david_pfluegl

1. lemmings - summer 2016
bots bots bots

2. what is this?

3. why are you here?

4. one kick off event
ten main events
different topics, different locations
a number of side events
for research, fun and things we haven´t thought of yet
what is going to happen this summer

5. kick off
topic presentation and platform announcement
group building
ideation, research, setup
presentation of progress
lunch
design and development
presentation of results
mingling
09:00
12:00
18:00
a lemmings main event looks somehow like this

6. mindset

7. “messaging is one of the few things that people do
more than social networking.”
Mark Zuckerberg, Founder of Facebook

8. private business
size of the most popular platforms

9. ~13 mio devices
2008 - Release of iOS app store
~1 bn users
2016 - Release of FB messenger
bot platform
opportunity

10. “chat apps will come to be thought of as the new
browsers; bots will be the new websites. this is the
beginning of a new internet.”
Ted Linvingston, Founder of Kik

11. Mica - The Hipster Cat Bot Swelly Flightbot
examples

12. server side request response native integration
old api
server side request response is the new black

13. limitation is beautiful
the very limited ways of
interaction within
messengers pushes us to
get creative with what we
have

14. distribution
honestly, we don’t
really know how that
works. that’s why we
are here. let’s find out.

15. next events
friday/july 29th/(side event)
saturday/july/30th/(main event)

16. and now
find your 2 friends
one of them has received a bot link
you have 30 minutes to check it out
after that one of each group
will tell us about it