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Yashu Mittal for LogChimp

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Creating an open source software to collect user feedback

Why?

There're many paid products providing the similar service but it comes at greater cost as they set their pricing based on the number of user they're tracking (a tracked user is anyone who posts, votes, or comments) and mostly their base price starts at $50 to $60 per month with limited number of users to track.

That's why...

🔼 LogChimp to rescue

I created an open source software for site admins to self-deploy the application and allow them to collect feedback from their users.

Showing list of latests posts on LogChimp homepage
Showing list of latests posts on LogChimp homepage

The source code of the application is open source on GitHub and contributions / feedback / suggestions are really appreciated.

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🧐 About

LogChimp is self-hosted platform for products makers to get feedback from their users and start building better version of your product.

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⛏️ Built Using

Contributing to LogChimp project is fairly easy.

  • Express - Node.js web framework
  • PostgreSQL - Backend database
  • Vue.js - Front end

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🚕Test drive

The process of deploy the application is bit troublesome and I even need to write the documentation for the same.

You're most welcome to self-deploy the application and give it a test drive, please note, I have tried my best to not release any bugs in the initial release but if you find any, please do report back to us in our Discord server.

🚧 Development roadmap

I further working on adding upvotes to the post and roles based system.

💻 Contributions

Every one is welcome to contribute to the project after all it's an open source project.

If you have any questions regarding How to contribute or setting up the development environment? You can shoot me a message on LogChimp discord server.

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Yashu Mittal

What do you think of overall project in terms of creating an open source self-hostable application for collecting feedback?