{"id":2867,"date":"2016-07-05T17:00:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T17:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/?p=2867"},"modified":"2016-07-05T17:00:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T17:00:22","slug":"discovering-kik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joapen.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/05\/discovering-kik\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering Kik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reviewing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kik.com\/\">Kik<\/a>, specially the ability to create your own bot.<\/p>\n<p>You interact with the development environment through a bot that adds you into the development environment and that guides you about the next steps you can perform to create a bot and a bot user.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting to <a href=\"https:\/\/bots.kik.com\/#\/\">see the bot store,<\/a> and discover the maturity of the community.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to review the code of a <a href=\"https:\/\/kik.readthedocs.io\/en\/latest\/user.html#example-bot\">basic bot<\/a>, and review the kikAPI.<\/p>\n<p>I learned that <span class=\"rendered_qtext\">WhatsApp is against the creation of bots in its platform. 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