Typebot

Typebot is a chatbot builder in which bots are designed visually and then embedded in a website or app through its JavaScript library. Visitor answers are collected in the builder and can be exported as CSV. The self-hosted version has two Next.js applications, the builder where bots are designed and the viewer where visitors answer them, and it needs a Postgres database.

The self-hosting guides cover three routes: Docker, where a compose file starts the builder and viewer images on one server; Vercel, where each application is a separate project built from a fork of the repository; and a manual route on a Node.js server with bun, Nginx and PM2. The Docker route starts the server with docker-compose and serves the builder and the viewer on separate ports. The project is maintained by Typebot SASU, which also runs the Typebot Cloud service.

Worth knowing

The code is under the Functional Source License. The license bars making the software available as a product that competes with Typebot’s own service, and it becomes Apache 2.0 two years after the software is made available.