Gift Insights

Gift Insights

A bot to help you find the perfect gift

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Gift Insights is a gift recommendation tool that helps you find things that your friends actually want.
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Robots•E-Commerce
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Ming Cheuk
Maker
Hi Product Hunt community! My name is Ming, and together with Daniel (@daniel_xu1), we are pleased to bring you Gift Insights! It’s a gift recommendation tool that helps you find gifts your friends and family actually want. It all started when we were looking to get a birthday gift for a good friend of ours. Finding a good gift was difficult, as we wanted it to be unique and something they’d actually enjoy. From then on, we decided that gift giving shouldn’t be this difficult and strived to solve the problem. We decided to build a bot on Facebook Messenger so people could use the tool without having to download anything. It also enabled Gift Finder, a nifty game to help you find a gift with the input of your friend without revealing what you will get them. We are happy to answer any questions and would appreciate any feedback or suggestions to make this even better!
Abadesi
@daniel_xu1 @techno246 Cool idea! Do you have plans to use data collected from friend's Facebook / Instagram profiles to make personalised recommendations?
Ming Cheuk
Maker
Thanks for the feedback @abadesi! We have thought about this However, we found there is limited data we can collect from social media due to Facebook's rather stringent data access policies (probably for the best!), and we don't want this to become too intrusive. However, we are currently building our own recommendation engine which will become smarter once more people use the service, especially when the gift giver becomes the receiver :)
Bogdan Soare
Looks really nice. @techno246 did you use any platform like Chatfuel or is it custom ?
Ming Cheuk
Maker
@bogdansoare Thanks! We built it using Microsoft Bot Framework, as it provided us a really nice framework for structuring the conversations in code yet it still gave us the control over custom message types for Facebook.
Bogdan Soare
@techno246 Thanks for sharing this, I didn't know about Microsoft Bot Framework, I was looking at Botkit but this framework from Microsoft seems compelling
Ming Cheuk
Maker
@bogdansoare We have evaluated both actually. We found that the conversation structuring in Bot Framework was a little tidier than Botkit, which is why we switched over. Also state management is built in so that conversation states don't reset when you redeploy or restart the server :)
Bogdan Soare
@techno246 cool, that’s good to know, definitely going to take a deeper a look into both. Thank you very much for sharing this insights 🙌
Ming Cheuk
Maker
@bogdansoare You're welcome! All the best!
Jenny Zhi Cheng

Really awesome bot. I'm not the typical online buyer but I've found this chatbot perfect for discovering interesting new things really quickly. This will come in handy for those family and friends who are tricky to find the "right" gifts for!!!

Pros:

Shareable, Fun, Helps me discover new things, Personalised

Cons:

Some items don't ship to New Zealand :(

Ming Cheuk
Maker
Thanks for the review @jennyzcheng! We are hoping to incorporate more gifts that ship to Australia and New Zealand over time!