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

by JanKoenig on 10/29/20, 4:59 PM with 19 comments

  • by JanKoenig on 10/29/20, 5:12 PM

    Seems like the site is down? The announcement can also be found here: https://github.com/jovotech/learn-jovo/tree/master/news/2020...
  • by JanKoenig on 10/29/20, 5:03 PM

    Hey all!

    The clients are built with Vue.js and styled with Tailwind CSS, and the backend is built with the Jovo Framework.

    Here are all the starters: - https://github.com/jovotech/jovo-starter-web-standalone - https://github.com/jovotech/jovo-starter-web-overlay - https://github.com/jovotech/jovo-starter-web-chatwidget - https://github.com/jovotech/jovo-starter-web-embeddedchat

  • by stevenicr on 10/31/20, 12:32 AM

    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.

  • by RyanShook on 10/29/20, 7:00 PM

    Why does the site use Drift for chat?
  • by areichert on 10/29/20, 8:09 PM

    What are some common use cases for the voice functionality? Is it mostly for speech-to-text features, or doing calls through the browser?
  • by janober on 10/29/20, 5:30 PM

    Here an archived version in case the page goes down again: https://archive.is/9Enrw