How I grew JokeBot from 26k subscribers to 117k subscribers

I first created JokeBot as side project to learn what chatbots are and their functionalities. JokeBot tells you funny jokes, puns, and animated gifs to subscribed users. It’s a messenger bot that has simple artificial intelligence setup. Most of the funny jokes, puns, and animated gifs are scraped from the internet using a Python script.

Throughout the whole process of creating a chatbot, I documented on how I created JokeBot and used Chatfuel and Api.ai to integrate AI logic and add conversational workflow. Then I started to…