YourBOT: Making good progress on my new SaaS product!
After creating an integrated chatbot system for all of my sBlogIt! blogging clients, I realised it was so good that I had to monetise it. For the past few weeks, I've been creating YourBOT and I think it's a really good update to what was already a pretty nifty tool ... YourBOT, a chatbot, Efficient and precise, Unwaveringly useful! When I created what I call 'sBlogBot' for my blogging clients, its core task was to sit in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen, pop up when needed, and answer questions about blog posts. You can see my own SteffiBot in the bottom left-hand corner of this blog post. I enhanced that to offer a READ MORE link to the blog post it summarised, then extended it further to include my blogging subscribers' websites, so it would answer questions from there too. This meant we could include web pages from anywhere!One of my blogging subscribers, who is an accountant, asked me to include the tax rates and thresholds page from the gov.uk website to answer common tax questions, too. It was a great idea, but it got me thinking. "This chatbot is really good. Can I make it even better? Can I make it available to anyone?" So I had a chat with my coding buddy (you may know ChatGPT), and we worked up a plan of extra features needed. Then, in my usual way, I just started coding. One fixed feature of sBlogBot is that it uses ChatGPT 5, and with the reasoning models it uses, I find it a little slow at times, especially when OpenAI is busy in the evenings. I added ChatGPT 4.1 as a model, which uses a simple temperature slider rather than reasoning, and it sped things up a lot. In addition, I included a data drill-down feature that extracts the important words from the chatbot user's question and then searches the database for information specific to that question.This means that I won't be sending the entire database to OpenAI's API's which saves me a lot of money on tokens and speeds responses up dramatically. I'll definitely be building this enhancement into sBlogBot once YourBOT is finished. Subscriptions are based on the number of requests | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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