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The same goes for power-ups! \n\nWe are providing the building blocks, and we fully expect to be blown away when the community comes up with creative, unusual, and impactful ways to use them! We are so excited!\n\nThe hackathon starts on the 26th of April at 9am BST and finishes on the 5th of May at 11:59pm BST. The winner with the best project will win $500!\n\n## Key facts\n- You have 10 days to build a new project using Chat Thing and using power-ups\n-- Starting 09:00 am BST Friday 26th April 2024\n-- The submission deadline is 11:59 pm Sunday midnight BST 5th May 2024\n- Enter as an individual, team or company\n- Use Chat Thing to build any bot you like; the only condition is that you use power-ups!\n\n**All entrants to the hackathon will be gifted a standard plan for the duration of the hackathon and as many tokens as you need (within reason :p)** - Message us on X [@chatthingai](https:\u002F\u002Ftwitter.com\u002Fchatthingai) or email [support@chatthing.ai](mailto:support@chatthing.ai) and we'll sort you out!\n\n## Rules\n- One submission per entry\n- Your Chat Thing bot must be created only during the event\n- Your bot must make use of Power-ups\n- You can submit before the deadline, but no late entries\n- Extra points for the following:\n-- Writing a blog post about your bot\n-- Create a video demo\n-- Posting your bot-building journey to social media during the event\n\n## Submission\n\nYou can submit using the following Google Form: [Power-ups Hackathon Submissions](https:\u002F\u002Fforms.gle\u002FFVxtXTFSQuun2FCr5). The form will be enabled after the 26th April.\n\n## Hackathon judging\n\nThe Chat Thing team will judge the overall best project. We will be looking for:\n\n* **Use of power-ups**\n* **Creativity and uniqueness of the idea**\n* **How well it works**\n* **Usefulness and impact**\n\n## Additional Info\nBy entering a submission, you grant Chat Thing permission to use your project for marketing purposes. We may post screenshots, videos, and other content to our blog, Twitter, Discord, email newsletters, and more.\n\n## Hackathon help\n\nDuring the hackathon, the Chat Thing team will be available to offer advice about your projects and answer any questions you might have. 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It worked fine, but it meant our team had to juggle two completely different ways of doing things every time we wanted to improve anything back there.\n\nNow it all speaks the same language. Which means **we can ship improvements to crawling, syncing and analytics far quicker than before**. When you're waiting on us to make something better, that speed is the difference between \"next week\" and \"next month\".\n\n## Safer with your data\n\nThis is the one I care most about, and it's worth a minute of your time.\n\nEvery modern app is built on top of hundreds of little bits of code written by other people. It's how software works, nobody builds everything from scratch. But every one of those bits is something you're trusting, and occasionally one of them gets tampered with by someone with bad intentions. It's called a supply chain attack, and it's one of the biggest security risks going right now.\n\nSo while we were in there, we did two things. 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They ask their question. Your agent answers. They leave.\n\nYou never find out who they were. They might have been your ideal customer. They might have been ready to buy. You will never know, because nothing asked.\n\nThat changes today.\n\n![The visitor-facing pre-chat form rendered on a bot page, with intro copy above the fields](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1777051094\u002Fdocs\u002Fprechat-form-visitor.png)\n\n### Meet your visitors before the first message\n\nLead Capture shows a short form to visitors before the chat opens. They fill in their name and email, or whatever your team actually needs to know, and then the conversation starts.\n\nBy the time they send their first message, you already know who they are.\n\n{% youtube id=\"ygNJiEvskZ4\" \u002F%}\n\n### Your team knows who called\n\nEvery form submission is saved to the conversation. 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Use it to explain what the chat is for, set the right expectation, or just make people feel welcome before they fill anything in.\n\n![The \"Require a pre-chat form\" toggle and intro copy field in the web channel settings](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1777051081\u002Fdocs\u002Fprechat-form-toggle.png)\n\n### Why asking up front works\n\nMost teams try to capture emails at the end of a chat. A popup. A nudge. A \"before you go\" moment.\n\nThe conversion on those is brutal. The visitor got their answer and they are already on their way out.\n\nAsking at the start works because the visitor is already here. They came to get help. Filling in a short form is not friction, it is an introduction. And when they do it, the whole conversation that follows is warmer, more personal, and easier to follow up on.\n\n### Where this makes the biggest difference\n\nIf you sell anything with a sales process, demos, pricing questions, onboarding, Lead Capture means your team goes into every follow-up with context instead of a cold email address.\n\nIf you run a B2B site, knowing the company before the chat starts is the difference between a useful conversation and a polite one.\n\nIf you do lead generation, this replaces the popup form entirely. Same details. Better experience. And the visitor gets their questions answered on the way in.\n\n### The honest caveat\n\nLead Capture is on the web channel for now. It does not work on WhatsApp, Slack, or Discord, those channels do not have a natural place for a form before the conversation starts. 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This will open up all sorts of new use cases for your bots, and we can't wait to see what you'll build!\n\n## Welcome to Power-Ups Launch Week!\nWe're kicking off an electrifying week here at Chat Thing with something we've all eagerly anticipated. Today marks the beginning of our Power-Ups Launch Week. Today, we are announcing our Zapier AI Action power-up, but before we dive deeper into that, let's give you an overview of Power-ups themselves!\n\n## What's a Power-up?\nPower-ups allow your bots to perform actions using other services and tools on the user's behalf. Before power-ups, Chat Thing bots could only perform question-and-answer tasks, but with power-ups, they can do so much more.\n\nThink of bots that, during a chat, can look things up with a Google search, collect data and save it to a database, or even send emails.\n\nIf you know of OpenAI's function calling or tools, think of this as our implementation, but with the added advantage of requiring no code to set up and configure these integrations (Well, in most cases).\n\nThis launch week, we are releasing our initial set of power-ups, but this is just the beginning. We will continue to add to this library and make them more powerful.\n\n## Day 1: Zapier AI Action Power-up\nThe first power-up we are announcing is potentially one of the most powerful! Our Zapier AI Action power-up will allow your bot to use any of the thousands of services on the Zapier platform to perform tasks during conversations.\n\nTo give you an idea of what the Zapier Power-up can do and how to set it up, we've made the video below. If reading's more your style, feel free to read on.\n\n{% youtube id=\"-Wqp02r7wf8\" \u002F%}\n\nIn case you haven't heard of Zapier AI Actions, you can read more about them [here](https:\u002F\u002Factions.zapier.com\u002Fdocs\u002Fguides\u002Fgetting-started\u002Fintro), but essentially it's a new way of interacting with the Zapier platform, designed specifically for AI bots.\n\nUsing the Zapier actions in Chat Thing is as easy as setting up the actions you want on Zapier like below:\n\n![Xnapper-2024-04-05-20.38.55.png](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1712346175\u002FXnapper_2024_04_05_20_38_55_f8fcea72fe.png)\n\nand then add them to Chat Thing as a power-up where you can configure their settings, and adjust how your bot uses them:\n\n![Xnapper-2024-04-05-20.37.40.png](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1712346175\u002FXnapper_2024_04_05_20_37_40_037621e330.png)\n\n### Example use-cases\n- Customer Support Automation: Imagine a bot that not only answers FAQs but also schedules appointments directly in your Google Calendar or updates a ticket in Zendesk without any manual intervention.\n- Lead Generation and Follow-up: Your bot can now capture leads through chat, add them to your Mailchimp for immediate follow-up, or enter their details into a CRM like Salesforce, all in real-time.\n- Feedback Collection and Processing: Collect feedback during a chat, and have your bot automatically categorize and save it to a tool like Google Sheets or send it to a specific Slack channel for immediate action.\n\n## Getting started\nBefore you get started with the Zapier AI action, we recommend you take a look at our general Power-ups documentation here: [Power-up basics](\u002Fdocs\u002Fpower-up-basics&previews=true).\n\nOnce you are happy with the basics of Power-ups, take a look at our dedicated Zapier Power-up docs here: [Zapier Power-up](\u002Fdocs\u002Fzapier-power-up?previews=true), where you will find a step-by-step guide.\n\n## Up next!\nI can't believe we are only on day one of our first launch week! There's still so much more to come! Join us again tomorrow when we announce a couple of new power-ups that will give your bot users new ways to get in contact. \n","Zapier AI Actions - Launch Week 01","launch-week-01-zapier-ai-actions","2024-04-05T12:31:28.319Z","2024-06-19T16:02:24.115Z","2024-04-22T09:39:18.318Z","ib0e0b1io8o5fa2aujrp8yhb",{"id":189,"Title":395,"Content":396,"Description":397,"Category":10,"slug":398,"createdAt":399,"updatedAt":400,"publishedAt":401,"readTime":15,"documentId":402},"Launch Week: Day 2 - Notion Power-ups","**Welcome back to Power-Ups Launch Week at Chat Thing! Following our thrilling kickoff with the Zapier AI Action Power-up, we're excited to dive into Day 2 with a bang. Today, we're unveiling our suite of Notion Power-ups, designed to revolutionise how your bots interact with your Notion workspace.**\n\nBefore we get into day 2, in case you missed the previous day, here's the link:\n- Day 1: [Zapier Power-up](\u002Fblog\u002Flaunch-week-01-zapier-ai-actions?previews=true)\n\n## Day 2: Notion Power-ups\nNotion Power-ups empower your bots to interact with your Notion workspace in ways you've always imagined but previously were not possible.\n\nProbably the easiest way to get a feel for what the Notion power-ups can do, will be to watch our announcement video below:\n\n{% youtube  id=\"mZpcY_Dpr7Q\" \u002F%}\n\nWe've had the Notion data source since the beginning of Chat Thing, but with the set of Notion power-ups we are announcing today, we are providing you another way to connect your bots with your Notion workspace, and for the first time ever, your bots will even be able to save and modify content in your workspace!\n\nToday, we've not got one, but 5 Notion power-ups to reveal, and you'll be able to mix and match them in your bots to do all kinds of things!\n\n![Xnapper-2024-04-06-06.46.07.webp](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1712382561\u002FXnapper_2024_04_06_06_46_07_1a5e714eb1.webp)\n\n### The Five Notion Power-ups Unveiled\nLet's explore the five distinct Notion Power-ups we're launching today:\n\n- **Save to Notion Database**: Direct your bot to save or update items within a Notion database you specify. We are so excited for all the possibilities this power-up enables.\n\n- **Query a Notion Database**: Equip your bot with the ability to search through a chosen database, applying filters to find exactly what you need, such as items marked as done.\n\n- **Read a Notion Page**: This power-up allows your bot to read the contents of any Notion page instantly, providing you with the latest information, right when you need it.\n\n- **Search for a Notion Page**: Need to find a specific page? Your bot can now return a list of pages matching your search criteria, saving you the hassle of manual searching.\n\n- **Search for a Notion Database**: Similarly, this power-up enables your bot to find and list databases by title, making it easier to navigate and manage your Notion workspace.\n\nEach power-up has its own settings that allow you to adjust how the bot interacts with it. Below is an example of the save to database power-up where you can select the Notion database you want to work with, and then configure how the bot will use its fields.\n\n![Xnapper-2024-04-06-07.29.32.png](https:\u002F\u002Fres.cloudinary.com\u002Fdjyjvrw5u\u002Fimage\u002Fupload\u002Fv1712385109\u002FXnapper_2024_04_06_07_29_32_27825ec9fd.png)\n\n### Example use-cases\nHere's a few basic examples of bots you could make using our Notion power-ups:\n\n* **Feature request bot** - Allow your users to suggest feature requests for your app via Chat Thing. The bot can save the suggestions into a dedicated feature requests Notion database.\n* **Project management buddy** - Give your bot access to your Notion tasks database so you can ask complex questions about tasks. Eg. \"How many tasks does Chris currently have in progress?\", \"Mark all Chris's tasks as done.\"\n* **Meal tracker bot** - Tell your bot what you have eaten, let it estimate calories and macros and then save the result to your meal tracker database.\n\nObviously that's just scratching the surface and we can't wait to see what the Notion community builds!\n\n## Getting started\nBefore you get started with the Notion power-ups, we recommend you take a look at our general Power-ups documentation here: [Power-up basics](\u002Fdocs\u002Fpower-up-basics&previews=true).\n\nOnce you are happy with the basics of Power-ups, take a look at our dedicated Notion Power-up docs here: [Notion Power-ups](\u002Fdocs\u002Fnotion-power-ups?previews=true), where you will find a step-by-step guide.\n\n## Up next!\nStay tuned for tomorrow's feature reveal! We'll introduce another power-up that will further enhance your bots' abilities to engage with and provide value to your users. 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