Have you ever written an FAQ or document on a website but still get people asking you the same questions? When it comes to users or customers, there’s no such thing as a bad question, but answering the same questions can become tedious. Have you ever wanted to create a bot that answers all these questions so you don’t personally have to?

In just 6 minutes I will show you how you can build a bot that will automatically answer questions from an FAQ via SMS using StdLib, MessageBird, and QnAMaker.ai!

If you’re not familiar with StdLib yet, you’re in for a treat! We’re a serverless API development and publishing platform that can help you build and ship custom logic in record time.

What You’ll Need Beforehand

1x Command Line Terminal With Node.js Installed

6x Minutes (or 360x Seconds)

A US Cell Phone Number

Minute 1: Create a StdLib Account and Initialize MessageBird

Getting started with StdLib is easy — head over to our website, click “Sign Up” and choose a namespace, email, and password.

After that you will need to install the StdLib CLI by opening up a terminal and running:

$ npm install lib.cli -g

Next, we’re going to create a workspace for your StdLib functions. Create a new folder and initialize it with the following commands:

$ mkdir stdlib-workspace

$ cd stdlib-workspace

$ lib init

Use the credentials you created earlier.