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How to use Flow Builder with Google Vision API and Google Cloud Functions This is some text inside of a div block. Rafael Valiev OCTOBER 6, 2020 | CONVERSATIONS This is a simple demonstration using  GoogleCloud Functions  and  Flow Builder  to do image recognition on an image sent on Telegram. Flow Builder and Beyond As a developer of Flow Builder I often think who our users are, why they use Flow Builder, and what they need to accomplish their goals; and then, which features we need to implement to best serve those users. FlowBuilder is a powerful drag-and-drop automation engine for creating communication flows. We initially conceived it as a no-code solution, but we found many users could get really powerful behavior writing some code for specific use-cases.   These bits of code can be inside Flow Builder, or they can be 3rd party cloud functions like  AWS Lambda  functions or  Google Cloud Functions .  An interesting use case: Image Recognition  For a short and funny example, I will

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  Go far by going together: Connecting Inbox to other platforms This is some text inside of a div block. Dragos Andronic AUGUST 11, 2020 | In March we  released Inbox , our free, omnichannel customer support tool for businesses of all sizes. Since then we’ve been continuously talking to users, adding new enhancements, and thinking about what business communication means in a world that became suddenly remote-first. Through our user interviews, we learned that our customers interact with and keep track of their customers through a bunch of different tools: : e-commerce platforms,  CRMs, clever spreadsheets, internal fulfillment solutions, and more. The diversity of tools and business flows we’re observing with our customers is astonishing.  We love seeing all of the unique ways our customers take advantage of Inbox and we want to keep supporting everyone as best as possible. Building to help everyone get the most out of Inbox To target such a diverse set of users and use cases, we came