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papercups-io / chat-builder

chat-builder

Build a completely custom chat UI on top of Papercups

2Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
18GitHub stars
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Build a completely custom chat UI on top of Papercups

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by week4 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2021-03-18 15:12:30 UTC to 2021-04-29 17:20:34 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

01232021-03-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 commentsMar 152021-03-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-03-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-03-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-04-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsApr 52021-04-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-04-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-04-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-04-26 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-05-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsApr 26

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Mar 152021-03-15 00:00:00 UTC2021-03-22 00:00:00 UTC312
Mar 222021-03-22 00:00:00 UTC2021-03-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Mar 292021-03-29 00:00:00 UTC2021-04-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 52021-04-05 00:00:00 UTC2021-04-12 00:00:00 UTC000
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Apr 192021-04-19 00:00:00 UTC2021-04-26 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 262021-04-26 00:00:00 UTC2021-05-03 00:00:00 UTC110

What Hacker News says

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We're pretty similar to Chatwoot in some ways - Kam described some differences here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26503697 To reiterate some of the differences, or why people might choose us at the moment: - A lot of our users really like our Slack integration. For small teams, this means they don't even really have to use our dashboard if they don't want to, because they can do everything from Slack. [0] - We offer a live screen sharing feature [1] - We're working on a library to offer complete customization of the chat UI on your website [2] [0] (We need to set up a better recent demo video of our Slack integration, but if you skim our changelog you'll probably get the gist: https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups/blob/master/CHANGE...) [1] https://storytime.papercups.io/ [2] https://github.com/papercups-io/chat-builder
In Show HN: Papercups – Open-source alternative to Intercom
Thanks for the mention: Like Pranav said we think the space is good to have multiple players and we've had many friendly conversations where we have traded notes. I think our vision is very similar in terms that we eventually want to focus on omni channel customer communication. A few things that Chatwoot has that we don't at the moment are: 1. Omni channel through messenger and Twillio integration 2. A Mobile app to chat with your customers 3. Shared inbox for teams - for team management What we have that differentiates us from Chatwoot: 1. We have a Reply from Slack + Reply from Mattermost integration where you never have to leave your workspaces (We believe your tools should conform to where you work and not force you to use a different tool) 2. Highly customizable [chat widget](https://github.com/papercups-io/chat-builder) with react
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and flutter components 3. We have a live screen sharing feature that lets you debug issues with your customers through the browser Our goal is to build out omni channel communications too but at the moment we want to make our chat widget experience amazing and we believe that your chat widget should look like your website and not an ad for your tool. *Note we do have apis and webhooks that you can integrate with dialogue flow and Rasa
In Launch HN: Chatwoot (YC W21) – Open-Source Alternative to Intercom, Zendesk

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