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Show HN: Bolnee-Chat – Self Hosted Chatbot Integration in Your Business Website

Published: 08/30/2026, 09:56 AM

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. 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 . Works on any site, accent/theme/greeting live via dashboard. Per-bot: Live status, message/user counts, creation date, source count, embed snippet with botName/avatar/chatUrl/accent/greeting/theme. Edit bot name, avatar (upload/preview), accent/background colour, theme light/dark/auto, greeting. Live preview; saved via PATCH /api/chatbots/:id. Grouped by visitorId → IP, then by date, chronological. Refresh + download CSV (Excel) / JSON / PDF (print). Active sessions = distinct visitors last 5m. provider/model/baseUrl/apiKey, default message (pre-first-turn), fallback message (no sources matched), delete bot + chats + sources + chunks. Bottom-right bubble → sliding window (360×520, 75vh mobile). Header with accent + avatar, typing dots, SSE streaming, sources cited, VISITOR_ID + history in localStorage so greeting shows once and chats survive close/open. Theme light/dark/auto (#0f172a / #fff).