Hashtag creator launches Molly to make a personal bot from your social media footprint

Hashtag creator Chris Messina today launched Molly, a service that allows people to ask questions about you and glean information from your various social media profiles. Molly skims your posts on platforms like Instagram, Twitter, and Medium to learn about you and formulate natural language questions. When someone asks something Molly can't answer, that question is sent to the Molly app for you to answer yourself. In addition to following your social media activity, the Molly app asks you to answer questions about yourself, like "Do you own an Amazon Echo?" or "Do you have a sweet tooth or a savory tooth?" The more you swipe through the questions, the more Molly learns about you, and the more you learn about how your friends have answered similar questions.