Customer support via live chat and email.
Features:
- AI agent: Reads your docs to give world-class support for everyday queries.
- Dashboard: A fully featured escalation flow for human agents to handle complex cases.
- Tools: Enable customers and agents to interact with your systems using natural language.
- SDK: Integrate live chat and AI-powered inline assistance into your website in seconds.
You'll need:
- Docker
- Node.js (see
.node-version)
# Install mkcert on macOS
brew install mkcert
brew install nss# Install mkcert on Windows
# First ensure you have Chocolately installed (https://chocolatey.org/install), then:
choco install mkcertFor other operating systems, see the mkcert installation guide.
Tip
If you already have a Vercel project with development environment variables set up, you can skip this step. When you run pnpm dev you will be prompted to pull the environment variables from Vercel.
Copy .env.local.sample to .env.local, then fill in values for:
Clerk
- Go to clerk.com and create a new app.
- Name the app and set login methods to: Email, Google, Apple, GitHub.
- Under "Configure > Email, phone, username", turn on "Personal information > Name"
- Under "Configure > Organization Management", turn on "Enable organizations"
- Under "Configure > API Keys", add
CLERK_SECRET_KEYandNEXT_PUBLIC_CLERK_PUBLISHABLE_KEYto your.env.localfile. - Under "Users", create a user with email
support@gumroad.comand passwordpassword. Optionally create other users, e.g. with your email. - Add the user ID(s) to your
.env.localfile asCLERK_INITIAL_USER_IDS. - Under "Organizations", create a new organization and add your user(s) to the "Members" list.
- Add the organization ID to your
.env.localfile asCLERK_INITIAL_ORGANIZATION_ID.
OpenAI
- Create an account at openai.com.
- Create a new API key at platform.openai.com/api-keys.
- Add the API key to your
.env.localfile asOPENAI_API_KEY.
Ably
- Go to ably.com and sign up or log in.
- Create a new app.
- Go to the "API Keys" tab for your new app.
- Copy the API key that has all capabilities enabled (usually the first one).
- Add the API key to your
.env.localfile asABLY_API_KEY.
The app will start with placeholder values for other services - you can follow the instructions in development.md to enable them later.
pnpm db:resetpnpm devAccess the application at helperai.dev 🚀
Helper is licensed under the MIT License.