reichert621
Hi everyone!
A buddy and I recently started working on Papercups with the goal of building an open source Intercom competitor 
We’re pretty new to Elixir, but it just seemed like the perfect tool for the job. We’ve been having a lot of fun with it lately, but would love to get feedback from more seasoned Elixir devs!
Here’s a demo of our chat widget if you want to play around with it https://app.papercups.io/demo
We also have some Github issues set up if you want to contribute
Excited to be a part of such a great community!
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Werner
That’s really very interesting, I’ve always thought Elixir would be great for that.
exjutsu
Cool project!
dandersson
Very nice!
Thought about XMPP support? We currently use Olark for live chat and Adium (on Mac) as client software. This way we don’t have to have the chat as a browser window AND we don’t have to live with the (currently) crappy chat software that some of the other provides have created.
We can simply use standardised XMPP clients.
We’re looking to migrate from Olark because of its crappy loading times (PageSpeed/Lighthouse).
reichert621
Haven’t thought about it yet, but seems like a great idea! I’m honestly not too familiar with XMPP, but I created a new thread in our repo to discuss Investigate XMPP support · Issue #75 · papercups-io/papercups · GitHub
Still pretty busy just trying to get all the basic stuff working, but would love to tackle this in the near future if possible! If you have any additional thoughts on it, feel free to post in the issue above
ion
This looks very promising, nice project! Just wanted to mention some features enterprise users might need:
reichert621
Thanks! We have a way to set customer metadata on the chat widget (GitHub - papercups-io/chat-widget: Papercups chat widget · GitHub) but it could definitely be improved
When you say “assigning a manager to customer support account”, do you mean having a manager/admin role in the dashboard to manage your customer support agents, or do you mean assigning an agent to a given customer?
ion
The
customermetadata is exactly what I meant, perfect!Yes, I mean having a Manager role to manage customer support agents, because most enterprise use cases would involve tight control over the agent registration and assignment process. You might have different support agent tiers for a Manager to assign and track agents. And, with the
customerobject available, some customers might have dedicated agents (or tiers) assigned to them based on priority or availability.reichert621
Got it, makes a ton of sense! That’s definitely on our roadmap
dandersson
If this materialises, we’ll be one of the first to sign up for a yearly support contract!
jayjun
I was excited then bummed to learn the mobile client is in React Native. Most apps are still native iOS and Android, but more importantly, Flutter is fast becoming the cross-platform choice for greenfield projects.
I know you don’t have a ton of engineering bandwidth and your web client is already written in React. But do consider native and Flutter libraries when expanding your team. All the best!