Yalcs displays a configurable floating action button on your website or in your app that when activated opens a chat window connecting your visitors to you and your team who respond from your Slack channel. Assist your customers or make a sale, all from Slack.
A week ago I was digging through the dozens of already existing solutions that would allow me to communicate with my app's users via Slack. I hated them all, so like any stubborn developer I built my own, and that's how Yet Another Live Chat for Slack was created.
Some of its features:
- Configurable routes to display and hide Yalcs on certain pages
- Configurable theme to match your app's design
- Configurable text for titles, buttons, etc
- Works well on desktop and mobile devices
- Standalone server and web client that integrates into applications of any stack
- No dependencies other than Node and what npm will install
and its less obvious benefits:
- It's free without any strings attached or absurdly-priced subscriptions
- There's no built-in analytics tracking snooping on your visitors
- There's no middleman (except for Slack...) reading your sensitive messages
- It's open source, so you host and can modify it however you like
If you'd like to see it in action, it's running on my email alias site Ptorx (https://ptorx.com). Stop by and say hi!
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