A Solo MIT-Licensed Website Chatbot Named Chatbase, Botpress and Dify as Its Targets With One Star on the Repo
Aniket Wathore posted Bolnee-Chat to Show HN on 2026-08-30 (32 points), a self-hosted retrieval-augmented website chatbot under the MIT license with a SQLite database, crawler, retrieval layer, dashboard and embeddable widget, described as "free forever" though operators still pay for compute and a model endpoint from OpenAI, Groq, Ollama or vLLM. Commits on 2026-08-29 and 2026-08-30 added grouped conversations, appearance settings, persistent widget history and themes. RuntimeWire's review found the repo had one contributor, one star, one fork and 43 commits, which is the honest read: the category signal matters (Chatbase, Botpress, Dify and AnythingLLM now face solo single-purpose clones weekly) while this specific project has no traction to speak of.
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