Is There a Market for a WordPress DIY Chatbot Plugin?

Brian Springman — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 19:18:36 +0000

I recently wanted to learn AI so I decided to build my own RAG model using Pinecone and OpenAI. When I went to post the solution on my WordPress site, I couldn’t find any simple block plugin for a chatbot.

All the available solutions were comprehensive solutions, they weren’t geared towards providing a simple interface to an existing RAG model.
So…I built my own interface as a block plugin. Check out the resulting project management tool chatbot. It answers users' questions based on my reviews of over 30 PM tools. The vector database was populated with my blog posts and fit/gap analysis spreadsheets.

Now that I’ve fulfilled a need I had myself, do I have an opportunity to sell the plugin to others building Pinecone vector databases?

The plugin is specific to Pinecone and OpenAI so pretty niche. Though, I could easily build other plugins tailored to different databases and LLM combinations.

I think the plugin is pretty nifty, as it is super easy to install, yet handles the three AI calls: Pinecone embedding of the user prompt, Pinecone vector database query, and OpenAI prompt. It also makes it super easy to fine tune the chatbot by adjusting: number of context chunks returned, minimum score matching and OpenAI system prompt.

Do you think there is a potential market for this?

Did I miss an existing plugin that already provides this functionality?

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Is There a Market for a WordPress DIY Chatbot Plugin?