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Papercups

Papercups

Open source Intercom Alternative

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Open source Intercom Alternative

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Papercups is an open-source live customer chat app written in Elixir. We offer a self-hosted alternative to Intercom for companies that are security & privacy conscientious. We're starting with chat, but long term, we want to handle all customer messaging.
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Papercups: Shared Inbox

Papercups: Shared Inbox

Reply to Emails, Chat, and SMS from Slack
Papercups shared inbox allows you to forward emails, SMS and live chat into Papercups, and reply from Slack, our dashboard, or our mobile app. Respond to any conversation from where your team works.
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Papercups: Shared Inbox gallery image
Papercups: Shared Inbox gallery image
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Kam LeungAlex Reichert

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Kam Leung
Kam Leung
Papercups EU

Papercups EU

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Hey everyone! Kam and Alex here. We founded Papercups a little over a year ago and wanted to provide an open source alternative to customer support tools like Intercom and Zendesk. We've recently launched one of our most asked for features: email support. Now in addition to chat and SMS, you can also respond to customer emails directly from our Papercups dashboard or Slack. Simply create a new forwarding address from Papercups and route any emails directly to it. We have over 2,000 users on Papercups and hundreds of thousands of customer messages sent and we hope to send millions more! For a limited time we are offering a Papercups deal with our Product Hunt launch to get 30% off of our Team and Lite plan for the next year. Just email us at hello@papercups and we'll send over redemption instructions.
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4yr ago
Stepan Parunashvili
Stepan Parunashvili
Consistent Fitness

Consistent Fitness

Love the slack integration. It's a seemingly small step, but it makes it so customers are right with you, like a team mate, where you already spend most of your time. Great work team!
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Jacky Wang
Jacky Wang
Cant wait to use this feature!!!
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4yr ago
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Papercups: Shared Inbox
Papercups: Shared Inbox Reply to Emails, Chat, and SMS from Slack

Launched on September 7th, 2021

Papercups Functions
Papercups Functions Build and deploy custom chat bots with code in the browser

Launched on June 30th, 2021

Papercups 2.0
Papercups 2.0 Open source Intercom and Drift alternative

Launched on February 18th, 2021

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