Show HN: Bolnee-Chat – Self Hosted Chatbot Integration in Your Business Website
Bolnee-Chat is a new self-hosted, open-source platform that allows businesses to integrate RAG-based chatbots into their websites. It supports various LLM providers and allows for local data ingestion from PDFs and website content without vendor lock-in.
Why it matters
It provides a cost-effective, privacy-focused alternative for small businesses to deploy AI customer support without recurring subscription fees or external database dependencies.
Chatbot integration in your business website. Self hosted, free forever!
Bolnee-Chat is a self-hosted RAG chatbot platform. Create a bot, add your website + PDFs as knowledge, pick any OpenAI-compatible provider (OpenRouter, OpenAI, Groq, Ollama, vLLM), and embed a 2-line snippet. Answers are grounded in your sources with citations, visitor chats are grouped and exportable, and everything runs on your infrastructure with SQLite.
Self-Hosted & Free Forever No vendor lock-in, no per-message billing. Run on your server, Vercel or Cloudflare Pages — SQLite, no external DB.
Crawls your site + ingests PDFs/TXT/MD/DOCX, chunks to SQLite FTS and builds grounded prompts. Sources are cited, fallback is configurable.
Copy window.BotConfig + chatbot-widget.js and paste before </body> . Works on any site, accent/theme/greeting live via dashboard.
Bot Overview — Stats & Snippet Per-bot: Live status, message/user counts, creation date, source count, embed snippet with botName/avatar/chatUrl/accent/greeting/theme .
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