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I Built BotFlow AI: An AI Chatbot SaaS with Next.js, NestJS & RAG

A developer built BotFlow AI, an open AI chatbot SaaS platform using Next.js, NestJS, and RAG. The platform features AI-powered chatbots, RAG knowledge base support, embeddable website chat widget, analytics dashboard, and authentication with role management. The project aims to provide a production-ready foundation for developers to customize instead of rebuilding infrastructure for every AI chatbot project.

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🚀 Introducing BotFlow AI – An Open AI Chatbot SaaS Platform

After months of development, I'm excited to share BotFlow AI, a modern AI chatbot SaaS platform built for businesses and developers.

✨ Features

🤖 AI-powered chatbots

📚 RAG knowledge base support

💬 Embeddable website chat widget

📊 Analytics dashboard

🔐 Authentication & role management

⚡ Modern Next.js + NestJS architecture

🐳 Docker-ready deployment

🗄️ PostgreSQL + Prisma backend

🛠 Tech Stack

Next.js

NestJS

TypeScript

PostgreSQL

Prisma

Docker

The goal was to create a production-ready foundation that developers can customize instead of rebuilding the same infrastructure for every AI chatbot project.

I'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions for future improvements.

🔗 Website: https://botflow-a.netlify.app 🚀 Product Hunt Launch:

https://www.producthunt.com/products/botflow-ai?launch=botflow-ai Thanks for reading! 🙌

source & further reading
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