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A guide to live chat tools for startups

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Re: A guide to live chat tools for startups

#11
We were probably writing the first few lines of code for Papercups around the time this article was written (in July), but we're another Intercom alternative :)

Like Chatwoot, we're open source and have a free tier on our hosted version for anyone who'd like to give us a try!

Here's the repo [0], website [1], and demo [2].

[0] https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups

[1] https://papercups.io/

[2] https://app.papercups.io/demo

Re: A guide to live chat tools for startups

#12
Very timely article for me.

I spent most of last week looking at live chat tools and also came to the same conclusion re ChatWoot (ie: good product + open source + lacking some features + but possibly extensible)

We're moving off of Intercom. Great set of features - but the pricing is horrendous.

I think live chat is more important than just the live chat. Using the chat widget for analytics, tracking, and automated messaging is also important.

I want to be able to take screenshots of what my users are looking at when they need support. I want to be able to detect what pages theyre on and provide contextual help when they need it.

Re: A guide to live chat tools for startups

#14
post #9

Our company recently "graduated" from Intercom's early-stage program. Intercom is a mediocre product but their pricing does not make sense whatsoever. I exchanged about 20 emails (while being very slow) with their account rep only to find out even they don't understand their own pricing. Here's some hot mess that's going on: * They A/B test their pricing page with completely different models. I've seen at least 3 dif…

Had the same issue. Found customer response times extremely slow, especially for a live chat app! Additionally, the way they broke down their pricing made no sense to me. At the end I wasn't sure what the incremental cost of adding features I wanted would be.

Re: A guide to live chat tools for startups

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post #12

Very timely article for me. I spent most of last week looking at live chat tools and also came to the same conclusion re ChatWoot (ie: good product + open source + lacking some features + but possibly extensible) We're moving off of Intercom. Great set of features - but the pricing is horrendous. I think live chat is more important than just the live chat. Using the chat widget for analytics, tracking, and automated…

Not sure if this is something you'd find useful, but we (Papercups) recently released a product on top of our live chat tool that allows you to view what your users are looking at in real-time while chatting with them :)

Details: https://storytime.papercups.io/

Re: A guide to live chat tools for startups

#18

We were probably writing the first few lines of code for Papercups around the time this article was written (in July), but we're another Intercom alternative :) Like Chatwoot, we're open source and have a free tier on our hosted version for anyone who'd like to give us a try! Here's the repo [0], website [1], and demo [2]. [0] https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups [1] https://papercups.io/ [2] https://app.papercu…

Love papercups!

Re: A guide to live chat tools for startups

#19

We were probably writing the first few lines of code for Papercups around the time this article was written (in July), but we're another Intercom alternative :) Like Chatwoot, we're open source and have a free tier on our hosted version for anyone who'd like to give us a try! Here's the repo [0], website [1], and demo [2]. [0] https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups [1] https://papercups.io/ [2] https://app.papercu…

Definitely a fan, love how much you've executed since your initial Show HN - nicely done!
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