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Launch HN: Chatwoot (YC W21) – Open-Source Alternative to Intercom, Zendesk

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Re: Launch HN: Chatwoot (YC W21) – Open-Source Alternative to Intercom, Zendesk

#21

No phone support though? That’s why we have to use zendesk...

We have had requests for phone support. At the moment, our primary focus is on text based messaging. We will get to the phone/video part in the future.

We want to make the software simple and easy to use. Setting up Asterisk and using it with Chatwoot was too much to handle. So we deferred that work for now. We will come back to it later.

Re: Launch HN: Chatwoot (YC W21) – Open-Source Alternative to Intercom, Zendesk

#22
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, we already integrate with Rasa.ai and Dialogflow. You can start the conversation with DialogFlow and pass it off to the agent. You can see a demo here https://www.chatwoot.com/features/chatbots and a setup guide with a sample code here https://github.com/chatwoot/dialogflow-agent-bot-demo

Amazing! You have a customer at CareDash. Feel free to reach out to me if you want any feedback as we will start implementing this shortly. rcarlton@caredash.com

Great! Just sent an email :)

Re: Launch HN: Chatwoot (YC W21) – Open-Source Alternative to Intercom, Zendesk

#26

Congratulations! Love chatwoot, and have been recommending it to others too. If I may, what's your take on Cloudflare's upcoming DurableObjects for Workers [0] and the possibilities that entails for chat-applications like these? > ...license fee of $99 per user per month for features like customisable dashboards, SLA Management, Agent scheduling software, IP blocklisting etc which are suited for large enterprises. I…

The sponsor button means (slightly) more money for the company, is there a particular reason you suggest to disable it?

Re: Launch HN: Chatwoot (YC W21) – Open-Source Alternative to Intercom, Zendesk

#27
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Product looks awesome! So for my understanding - to add email channel you have to forward an email to single monitored inbox, correct? What email protocols do you support?

That is correct. Our email channel is an implementation build on top of Rails Action mail box.

It support ingresses for Mailgun, Mandrill, Postmark, and SendGrid. You can also handle inbound mails directly via the Exim, Postfix, and Qmail ingresses

ref: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/action_mailbox_basics.html

Re: Launch HN: Chatwoot (YC W21) – Open-Source Alternative to Intercom, Zendesk

#28

Congratulations! Love chatwoot, and have been recommending it to others too. If I may, what's your take on Cloudflare's upcoming DurableObjects for Workers [0] and the possibilities that entails for chat-applications like these? > ...license fee of $99 per user per month for features like customisable dashboards, SLA Management, Agent scheduling software, IP blocklisting etc which are suited for large enterprises. I…

> If I may, what's your take on Cloudflare's upcoming DurableObjects for Workers [0] and the possibilities that entails for chat-applications like these?

It seems interesting. We have not had time yet to deep dive.

> I wanted to know if there are there any other models other than GitLab's that YC recommends to its startups?

We have not seen any trend emerging other than open-core so far.

> Also, curious why for-profit F/OSS startups would leave up a "sponsor" button on their GitHub. :D

Some one wants to support us without taking subscription plans is a great reason to have it.

> Tangential: Was this the startup that failed [2]? If so, it would be interesting to read your views on it since it looks like except the co-founder that blogged about the failure, the rest of the original founding team is back building chatwoot?

I think you might have misunderstood, op was mentioning another startup, not Chatwoot.

You can read our story here. https://www.chatwoot.com/blog/building-in-the-open

> Off-topic: If you are okay, can you reveal if you've raised funds from Indian Angles (many particularly active in the SaaS scene [3]) and what has been your experience so far? And a set of recommendations, if any, for other Indian F/OSS SaaS upstarts? May be you should blog about it?

We will definitely write about it soon.

Re: Launch HN: Chatwoot (YC W21) – Open-Source Alternative to Intercom, Zendesk

#29

Congrats on the launch! It looks really cool. The UI reminded me of DelightChat [0] [0] - https://www.delightchat.io/

We know Preetam, they are a great team!

Preetam here :)

Congrats on the launch and traction Pranav!

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