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AI · July 22, 2022

Kogno

An open source framework for developing chatbots in Ruby

Kogno launched on July 22, 2022 with 65 votes, #589 of 2,916 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

What it does

Kogno is an open source framework written on the Ruby for developing conversational apps in messaging platforms like Messenger, WhatsApp and Telegram. (It's something like Rails but for chatbots)

Kogno is an open source framework running on the Ruby programming language for developing chatbots.

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