Every thing you need to know about Typebot

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About Typebot

Typebot is a conversational app builder as an alternative to Typeform or Landbot.

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Languages/Platforms/Technologies:

Docker

Lincenses:

AGPL-3.0

More about Typebot

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Typebot is an open-source alternative to Landbot. It allows you to create conversational apps/forms (Lead qualification, Product launch, User onboarding, Customer support), embed them anywhere on your web/mobile apps, and collect results in real-time.

Features

Text, image, video bubble messages
Text, URL, email, phone number, date... input fields
Native integrations including Google Sheets, Webhooks, Send email (more to come)
Conditional branching, URL redirections
Beautiful animations
Theme is 100% customizable
Embed as a container, popup, or chat bubble easily with the native JS library
In-depth analytics

For more info, visit the landing page

Stay up-to-date

Lots of new features are being implemented on a day-to-day basis. Make sure to hit the Star button and watch Releases to be notified of future features.

Getting started with Typebot

The easiest way to get started with Typebot is with the official managed service in the Cloud.

It takes 1 minute to try out the builder for free. You'll have high availability, backups, security, and maintenance all managed for you by me, Baptiste, Typebot's founder.

That's also the best way to support my work, open-source software, and you'll get great service!

Self-hosting

Interested in self-hosting Typebot on your server? Take a look at the self-hosting installation instructions.

Local setup

Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/baptisteArno/typebot.io.git

Install dependencies

cd typebot.io
pnpm i

Set up environment variables

Copy apps/builder/.env.local.example to apps/builder/.env.local

Copy apps/viewer/.env.local.example to apps/viewer/.env.local

Copy packages/db/.env.example to packages/db/.env

Check out the Configuration guide if you want to enable more options

Make sure you have Docker running
Start the builder and viewer

pnpm dev

Builder is available at http://localhost:3000

Viewer is available at http://localhost:3001

Database inspector is available at http://localhost:5555

By default, you can easily authenticate in the builder using the "Github Sign In" button. For other options, check out the Configuration guide

(Optionnal) Start the landing page

Copy apps/landing-page/.env.local.example to apps/landing-page/.env.local

cd apps/landing-page
pnpm dev

(Optionnal) Start the docs

cd apps/docs
pnpm start

Contribute

Another great way to support Typebot is to contribute to the project. Head over to the Contribute guidelines to get started. 😍

Technology

Typebot is a Monorepo powered by Turborepo. It is composed of 2 main applications:

the builder, where you build your typebots
the viewer, where your user answer the typebot

These apps are built with awesome web technologies including Typescript, Next.js, Prisma, Chakra UI, Tailwind CSS.

License

Typebot is open-source under the GNU Affero General Public License Version 3 (AGPLv3). You can find it here.

The goal of the AGPL license is to:

Maximize user freedom and to encourage companies to contribute to open source.
Prevent corporations from taking our code and using it as part of their closed-source proprietary products
Prevent corporations from offering Typebot as a service without contributing to the open source project
Prevent corporations from confusing people and making them think that the service they sell is in any shape or form approved by the original team

In a few words, to use Typebot in your company, you need to:

Open source and publish your modifications
If you commercialize your version of Typebot, be clear and provide a prominent mention and link to the original project so people that are considering using their version of the software can be aware of the original project.

If you'd like to use Typebot without open-sourcing your modified code, you can purchase a commercial license to remove the copyleft restrictions and in that way support the original project. Contact me at baptiste@typebot.io.