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Show HN: Open-source, fully customizable voice and chat widgets for the web

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Re: Show HN: Open-source, fully customizable voice and chat widgets for the web

#11

Why does the site use Drift for chat?

Great question! At this moment, Drift is convenient for us because I can reply directly from Slack. We have an internal demo where we can do this with our widget, too, it was a bit too early for this release though. Soon!

You know what, you're right. I've been getting a bit annoyed by Drift anyways. So until we launch our own automated chat and search widget, I might as well just remove the current one. Done

Re: Show HN: Open-source, fully customizable voice and chat widgets for the web

#13

What are some common use cases for the voice functionality? Is it mostly for speech-to-text features, or doing calls through the browser?

Mostly speech to text, probably more on mobile then destop right now.

People are getting more used to interacting with technology using their voice (e.g. through Google Assistant) this is why we want to help developers offer "deep links" into their web functionality with fast speech input.

Re: Show HN: Open-source, fully customizable voice and chat widgets for the web

#15

What are some common use cases for the voice functionality? Is it mostly for speech-to-text features, or doing calls through the browser?

Mostly speech to text, probably more on mobile then destop right now. People are getting more used to interacting with technology using their voice (e.g. through Google Assistant) this is why we want to help developers offer "deep links" into their web functionality with fast speech input.

Nice! Makes sense.

Re: Show HN: Open-source, fully customizable voice and chat widgets for the web

#16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

will you be doing Vue.js strictly ? what about nextjs, etc

we're most experienced with Vue.js, but want to add integrations with more frameworks, too! it's also possible to use our vanilla JS client: https://www.jovo.tech/marketplace/jovo-client-web

Seems like a great use case for web components, which would just work in any framework.

Re: Show HN: Open-source, fully customizable voice and chat widgets for the web

#17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

we're most experienced with Vue.js, but want to add integrations with more frameworks, too! it's also possible to use our vanilla JS client: https://www.jovo.tech/marketplace/jovo-client-web

Seems like a great use case for web components, which would just work in any framework.

Great suggestion! Will do some research, thanks :)

Re: Show HN: Open-source, fully customizable voice and chat widgets for the web

#19
I poked around this a bit -

Is there moderation for the chat? Or maybe this is kind of a bare bones framework for others to build on maybe?

I tend to compare chat systems that run using sql or Mysql type of DB's for the backend, to ones that don't. Would this jovo framework be doing that or similar?

Problems I've had is that some chat systems using sql DBs start to fail when I get to about 20 - 25 simultaneous chatters. Is there any kind of benchmark showing the amount of users this kind of system can handle before it starts to stall - say using a VPS or basic dedicated server?

I've tried tons of chat systems over the years - sadly the two best (for my uses) depend on flash and so are dying soon - yet none since way back when I have found have the ability to handle 600 users at once and have good moderation tools, along with being tough to hack. So I am looking desperately.

Re: Show HN: Open-source, fully customizable voice and chat widgets for the web

#20

I poked around this a bit - Is there moderation for the chat? Or maybe this is kind of a bare bones framework for others to build on maybe? I tend to compare chat systems that run using sql or Mysql type of DB's for the backend, to ones that don't. Would this jovo framework be doing that or similar? Problems I've had is that some chat systems using sql DBs start to fail when I get to about 20 - 25 simultaneous chatte…

Great question! It uses the Jovo Framework (https://github.com/jovotech/jovo-framework) for the automation of the conversations.

Many people who build Jovo apps (mostly for 1-on-1 conversational experiences, not group chats) host them on serverless environments like AWS Lambda and use document databases like AWS Lambda. Haven't seen problems with scalability there.

We're currently investigating sockets though, which won't work on Lambda. Going to be interesting to see how this scales

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