Launch HN: Papercups (YC S20) – Open-Core Intercom Alternative
Hi HN! Kam and Alex here. We’re founders of Papercups ( https://papercups.io ), a live customer chat app written in Elixir. We offer an open-core self-hosted alternative to Intercom for companies that are security and privacy conscientious. Alex and I met in SF around 6 years ago, and have been hacking on small projects together for the past couple years. Before covid, we would spend many Sunday afternoons in coffee shops building prototypes of whatever our latest and greatest idea was… most of these fizzled out after a few weeks or so For 2020, we wanted to take the idea of “building something people want” a bit more seriously. We started off trying to build SaaS tools for ocean freight logistics companies. That failed, but we learned a ton in the process. After our experience in freight we wanted to work on tools that are a little closer to home and tried a completely new ide
Why it failed
Hi HN! Kam and Alex here. We’re founders of Papercups ( https://papercups.io ), a live customer chat app written in Elixir. We offer an open-core self-hosted alternative to Intercom for companies that are security and privacy conscientious. Alex and I met in SF around 6
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- cheeseblubber
- Ended
- 2020
- Source
- hackernews