Get ChatWoot working on ohack.dev to replace our Contact Us Google Form

[gregv]

Right now we don't have anyway for people to chat with us or contact us directly on ohack.dev
And on ohack.org we link to this Google Form

We could likely do a lot better if we used one of the latest solutions here that is free and open-source with ChatWoot
https://github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot (if you find something else that's free and similar, that works too)

• Ideally you deploy this using the free tier of fly.io - ChatWoot doesn't appear to have documentation on how to do this, but it should be similar to their Docker details
• This should give you some code/iframe that you'll have to add to our frontend (this code repo)
• Add the Slack plugin that allows us to chat with people using Slack
• Specifically look at any fields within this Google Form to see if we can pull those fields into ChatWoot
• See if you can also replace the sponsor form by using ChatWoot

[extinctsion]

Hi, I think we can work this out with chatwoot chatbot but how are we planning to store the user data? do we want it to store in excel or there should be a database for storing the userdetails?

[gregv]

Hi, I think we can work this out with chatwoot chatbot but how are we planning to store the user data? do we want it to store in excel or there should be a database for storing the userdetails?

We already have a nonprofit google account @extinctsion - so I was thinking we'd use https://www.chatwoot.com/docs/self-hosted/deployment/gcp which doesn't appear to require a specific database setup