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006 - E-Commerce, Chatbot, and Facebook As a Marketplace - Azizul Hakim & Jahid Hasan

Azizul Hakim and Jahid Hasan studied computer science at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSEDU) in the same batch. After graduating from CSEDU, both of them started their startup besides their day job. Azizul Hakim built a chatbot building platform Shobdobots and selling chatbot as a service. And Jahid Hasan started a business of selling organic food online through his facebook page The Khamari and his website https://www.thekhamari.com/ . Recently,  Azizul Hakim has built an e-commerce chatbot for Jahid's food business which can fully automate maintaining e-commerce business through a facebook page. And I wanted to know more about it.

An outline of this episode this provided below to help navigate the conversation.

OUTLINE

00:00 - Intro

03:58 - About Azizul Hakim

05:18 - About Jahid Hasan

06:48 - How Azizul Hakim started working with chatbot

14:26 - How Jahid Hasan started his e-commerce business

22:34 - Shobdo Keyboard

35:48 - Facebook vs Website e-commerce

42:15 - Shodobot's e-commerce chatbot

53:45 - How chatbot helps in managing Jahid's Business

59:11 - NLP in chatbot and Hybrid chatbot

01:05:03 - Shobdobot e-commerce pricing

01:10:40 - Struggles in starting an e-commerce business

01:17:27 - How important is the platform (Website/Facebook)

01:18:00 - The brand value of a business having a chatbot

01:25:45 - Selling software as service for an independent developer

01:28:42 - Future plan

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