My presentation of Pogoco (The Pokecoach) at the BotSpot Meetup#4 on August 30th 2016 in Vienna. It's a chatbot focused for Pokemon Go players on the Facebook Messenger Platform. Here's how we did it.

2. Owl [aʊl]
The „know-it-owl“
among birds

3. Winnie the Pooh

4. The Sword in the Stone

5. Lord of the Rings

6. POGOCO
Chatbot that helps Pokémon
players to play Pokémon Go more
effectively.

7. [aʊlz]

8. WHY THE F-CK WOULD YOU
PROGRAM A POKÉMON BOT?

9. Perfect Usecase
Mobile only game

10. Your Pokémon The Pokémon you have to defeat
Painful encounters

11. Wtf… How shall I defeat it?

12. Ask Pogoco™

14. Follow Facebook Tutorial
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/quickstart
GET example code
https://github.com/fbsamples/messenger-platform-samples

15. Technologies
digitalocean
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
nodejs
Local computer
Ubuntu 14.04
nodejs

16. Technologies
digitalocean
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
nodejs
Local computer
Ubuntu 14.04
nodejs
Only
5$ a
month

17. What we wanted to do
Natural
Language
Processing
e.g. understand every
question
Natural
Language
Processing
e.g. understand every
question
Pokemon Server
Status
Information
Service
Pokemon Server
Status
Information
Service
Show a
Pokemon
Picture
Show a
Pokemon
Picture
Reminder
Service when
Server is down
Reminder
Service when
Server is down
Integration
dischord.gg
Integration
dischord.gg
Integration
Kik
Integration
Kik
MultilanguageMultilanguage
Intelligent
Pokémon
Matching
Intelligent
Pokémon
Matching

18. What we did
Natural
Language
Processing
e.g. understand every
question
Natural
Language
Processing
e.g. understand every
question
Pokemon Server
Status
Information
Service
Pokemon Server
Status
Information
Service
Show a
Pokemon
Picture – OK,
plus a little info
Show a
Pokemon
Picture – OK,
plus a little info
Reminder
Service when
Server is down
Reminder
Service when
Server is down
Integration
dischord.gg
Integration
dischord.gg
Integration
Kik
Integration
Kik
MultilanguageMultilanguage
Intelligent
Pokémon
Matching
Intelligent
Pokémon
Matching

19. What we did
1. Get all Pokemon Data and structure it
(took the longest, lol)
2. Put MASSIVE data into Database
(151 Pokemon in MySQL)
3. Create little nice pictures of Pokemon:

20. Get them infos to the user

21. Process
User writes
something
User writes
something
Is this a
Pokemon?
Is this a
Pokemon?
Give infos
back
Give infos
back
„Please speak
Pokemon!“
„Please speak
Pokemon!“
Yep!
Nope!

22. 50 ways to type your „Schiggy“
Shiggi
Schiggi
Shiggi
Shyggi
Kartoffelsuppe
Syhggy
#!/usr/bin/python
for schiggyspellings in schiggies:
print „Please speak Pokemon!“

23. A wild nodejs libary appears!
FuzzySearch ftw!
„SHIGGI“„SHIGGI“
Is this a
Pokemon?
Is this a
Pokemon?
Give infos
back
Give infos
back
„Please speak
Pokemon!“
„Please speak
Pokemon!“
Yep!
Nope!
Kinda..
„I think you meant
Schiggy.“
(you illiterate
Schmock)
„I think you meant
Schiggy.“
(you illiterate
Schmock)

24. + Added English Names!
SQUIRTLE
And you wouldn‘t believe how many people write
„Thank you“ when they got the info… so Pogoco also responds to that now.

25. Tech specs
Includes:
FuzzySearch
Emoji-Data
Let‘s make it “secure“

26. LEAN DEVELOPMENT
From idea to launch in 2 days
Launch: 27th of July 2016.
Now: Let the players know!

27. SOMMERLOCH
The worst fear of every journalist out there.

28. 80% response rate
and Ctrl+C Ctrl+V journalism

32. Helmut Herglotz
@HHerglotz