hello! i am new to botpress.
i am used to creating AI bots using manychat and make.com, connecting with openAI assistants to carry out the conversations.
i am looking for new tools that arent limiting like manychat and expensive like make.
i ended up choosing n8n to substite make for integrations/automation flows and am hosting it on a private cloud of mine, which makes it free.
regarding a substitute for manychat, i was looking into typebot initially but started getting into botpress.
i am very new to the tool and it is a lot more advanced/has a steeper learning curve then manychat had for me and typebot would potentially have. i want to stick to one tool since it is more efficient in my opinion then testing a lot of different ones.
thats why i need to understand a few things about botpress that will define whether i will choose it definitely or not. these questions are probably very simple and i would stumble across answers for them soon, but i would like to get them out of my mind to help me make this decision.
- when using botpress, that means i wouldnt have to create openai assistants anymore, correct? since the whole training happens in there and it natively uses openai, apparently?
- i wouldnt have to write a single long prompt instructing the model on how to act/interpret documents, etc. like we do on openAI assistants, right? it seems like it is "divided" into botpress agents. is that correct?
- i know botpress can be integrated with whatsapp, but as far as i looked into it is through using the official Meta API. is it possible to connect it to an existing whatsapp phone number (non official api), like typebot would do with evolutionAPI?
- can i integrate botpress on instagram/messanger? if so, how viable/stable is it? i saw someone talking about connecting it to manychat. is that true?
PS.: i know these can be simple doubts but i would be very thankful if someone could answer them.