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24 alternatives to Open-source support bot for Discord

Many companies have a public Discord where people ask questions. Sometimes those questions are dumb and can be easily answered by reading the support documents. So we built a bot that does 3 things: 1. Uses FAISS to index public support documents provided as URLs 2. Monitors a Discord channel for questions, prefixed with !help 3. Responds to questions with its best guess of the right answer and cites its source document(s), using Data Augmented Generation from LangChain It won’t be right all of the time, but if people find it helpful we’ll make it better. Take a look at the repo and give us…

This open-source Discord bot automatically answers user questions in community servers by searching indexed support documents. When users prefix their message with !help, the bot retrieves relevant answers from… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Open-source support bot for Discord launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Ansy.ai▲324

    GPT-3 for your discord server

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    It works on top of the open-source workflow engine windmill [1] that you can easily self-host on a tiny server or a large k8s cluster. You will also need pgvector (here hosted on supabase) and of course a GPT4 api key. It showcases an approval step so that you only provide answers you are confident giving to your users, which feels less robotic. All the building blocks are scripts that you can reuse outside of windmill and you could build this in any other workflow engines (although less conveniently). We use it for our own needs on discord [2] and thoughts this was a common need for any…

    2023 · windmill.dev · its alternatives →

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    Open source indexing of Discord channels into Google

    2023 · answeroverflow.com · its alternatives →

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    Wallu▲58

    Discord bot to automate frequently asked questions

    2023 · wallubot.com · its alternatives →

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    Build custom bots for Discord with no-code

    2022 · dots.community · its alternatives →

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    Hi! I'm Rhys, I develop Answer Overflow a search engine for Discord channels. Answer Overflow indexes content from channels into Google making them discoverable on the web. I'm sharing this again after seeing a lot of discussion during the Reddit blackout about the inaccessibility of information sent in Discord servers. Answer Overflow is a verified bot in over 100 communities, fully complies with the Discord ToS, and is open source! https://github.com/AnswerOverflow/AnswerOverflow Check out some of the communities here! T3 Community -…

    2023 · answeroverflow.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn Slack into a knowledge base with generative AI

    2023 · questionbase.com · its alternatives →

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    AI-powered knowledge bot for Slack communities

    2023 · springworks.in · its alternatives →

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    Q&A Bot▲80

    A smart bot which answers your Discord community's questions

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    The best bots for Messenger, Slack, Alexa, Discord and more

    2017 · views4you.com · its alternatives →

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    Forums▲280

    AI-powered Q&A for GitHub repositories.

    Jan 2026 · forums.basehub.com · its alternatives →

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    A GPT-powered chatbot for any site

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    An Ai Knowledge Bot for Discord, Open Source

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

  14. 14

    Improve your English

    2023 · discord.com · its alternatives →

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    IngestAI▲231

    Build ChatGPT bots on Slack/Discord answering on your docs

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Donut bot for Discord

    2022 · bot.outliers.build · its alternatives →

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    Askible▲101

    Streamlining Q&A interactions on Discord

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Use AI to build an FAQ bot from your Slack history

    2020 · onebar.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, We’re Brendan and Michael, the creators of Sourcebot (https://www.sourcebot.dev/), a self-hosted code understanding tool for large codebases. We originally launched on HN 9 months ago with code search (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41711032), and we’re excited to share our newest feature: Ask Sourcebot. Ask Sourcebot is an agentic search tool that lets you ask complex questions about your entire codebase in natural language, and returns a structured response with inline citations back to your code. Some types of questions you might ask: - “How does…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Build unlimited custom ChatGPT bots, with a lifetime license

    2023 · answerflowai.com · its alternatives →

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    Custom ChatGPT chatbot for your website

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    AI Chatbot for your documentation and support

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Open source LLM chat room

    2024 · chatty.encore.dev · its alternatives →

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