Building a chatbot in under 10 minutes. Yes, really!
CREATED BY STEFFI LEWIS Published: 09/12/2025 @ 09:02AM #YourBOT #QuickSetup #NoCodeChatbot #UKBusinessTools #SmallBusiness #TechMadeEasy
If you've ever tried to set up a chatbot before, you've probably ended up lost in a maze of dashboards, API keys, token formulas, and existential despair. YourBOT takes a very different approach. You can go from absolutely nothing to a fully working chatbot on your website in less time than it takes to make a decent cup of tea ...
Build a chatbot fast, In the UK, coding swiftly, Chatting with AI
The process starts by creating your botlet. This is the baby version of your chatbot – the core that you'll train, personalise, and unleash onto your website visitors. It's quick, clean, and intentionally simple, because nobody needs a 73-field form just to get started.
Next, you set up the bot details!
This is where you give your bot its personality, name, opener messages, behaviour settings, and the general vibe you want it to project. Everything is explained in plain English, so there's no technical jargon or mysterious toggles that make you panic and slam the browser shut. Our own Aimee is there to guide you, offering tips, hints, and the occasional nudge.
Once that's done, you add your icon. It can be your logo, a character, a mascot, or anything you like. This tiny circle becomes the face of your chatbot – the friendly little bubble your visitors will click on. Upload it and boom: your bot has an identity.
After that, you add your FAQs, URLs, or RSS feeds. This is where your bot gets its brain. You can enter as much or as little as you want. Add a few FAQs, and it knows the answers instantly. Point it to your website and it'll learn from your content. Connect an RSS feed, and you can keep it updated with fresh news or blog posts. There's no coding, no APIs, and no sacrificing goats to the tech gods. Just simple fields, clear prompts, and instant results.
Finally, once your botlet is trained and ready to meet the world, you install it on your website. YourBOT gives you a tiny snippet of code to paste into your site – the digital equivalent of “pop this in and you're done”. As soon as you hit save, your shiny new chatbot appears, ready to greet visitors, answer questions, and collect leads while you get on with running your business.
From zero to live chatbot in minutes!
No tech skills needed. No geeks required. No fifteen tabs of documentation. Just a fast, human-friendly system built for UK businesses that want results, not headaches.YourBOT strips away the complexity so you can focus on what matters: getting more enquiries, giving faster answers, and looking impressively high-tech while only investing ten minutes.
Now go enjoy that cuppa. Have a biscuit too!
Until next time ...
STEFFI LEWIS The SaaSy Coder - Creator of sBlogIt! YourPCM & YourBOT
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I bring over 30 years of experience in web development. From creating my first website for the Open University in 1993, through being part of the dot com boom, to my explorations in SaaS and AI over the last few years, my journey has been a rich tapestry of web projects, big and small, both funded and bootstrapped.
My head is in the cloud, my heart belongs to the web, and my soul is filled with such beautiful code 💗
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