Learnings: Start Simple, Go Deep

This project has taught me a lot about designing for chat bots. My initial idea was overly complex. I wanted to create a research bot that could scrape twitter, Google research articles, and news headlines to help my team keep an eye on the latest news related to our project. I realized, though, that this use case was 1) overly complex to rapidly prototype in 3 weeks and 2) would likely not provide a better user experience than simply setting up a Google Alert on certain keywords.

This version of the project solves a very concrete need with a limited scope and was a great way to practice the techniques while creating a tool that provides value to the team, even now as a basic prototype. 

I'm excited to build out this project and integrate with Context.io.