Hi,

it’s exciting time for all of us to be alive.

I’m proud to announce, that we’ve made a big step forward in bringing full Google Assistant experience to the Web.

The problem

According to Google, there are over 1 million actions built for the Google Assistant.

Some of these Actions might worth to be run on even more platforms. Many of them are helpful and provide a real value for their customers.

Till today, there was no way to run Actions on Google for anything other than a Google Assistant enabled device.

This introduced many obstacles a user has to overcome first:

The user had to have a Google Assistant enabled device

The user had to run the latest OS and Google Assistant

The user should have figured out how to activate and use Google Assistant

The user needed to find where the applications are and how to trigger them

The user needed constant internet connectivity

As well as some problems a developer could have experienced

Bad portability of the code (can only run on a single Platform)

Not enough reasons to build an Action

Customer base is limited by the number of Google Assistant users

The action might be private and the access should be limited

How we solved it

The most logical way to solve the issue is to somehow port these Actions on more Platforms (with the favourite being Web).

I’m happy to let you know, that my project Dialogflow for Web gained first-class-citizen support for Google Assistant and it might help you as well!

From a user perspective

Dialogflow for Web provides the same UI/UX built upon the official Google Assistant spec.

The components are displayed the same way they are on Assistant and the interactions are kept familiar as well. Try out a demo

From a developer perspective

It isn’t going to cost you anything, installation is <2 minutes

The project is open-source

No changes to your Action’s code required, works out-of-the-box

Native platform features supported: multiple languages, text-to-speech, media responses

No need to worry about the UI/UX/Accessibility

Take advantage of Web, boost your customer base by 3.2 billion users

How you could help

If you are a developer: port your action, submit issue, submit pr

if you are a user: ask a developer to port his action and send him a link to this article

if you are nice: consider to donate

Thank you!!!