I Built a Self-Hosted AI Support Widget with Spring Boot (No Monthly SaaS Fees)

Every new SaaS seems to embed ChatGPT these days.

Most AI support solutions rely on third-party platforms, monthly subscriptions, and vendor lock-in. While they're great products, I wanted something different.

I wanted complete ownership.

I wanted to deploy everything on my own server, use my own OpenAI API key, customize every part of the experience, and embed the widget into any website with a single script tag.

So I built my own self-hosted AI support widget using Spring Boot and Vanilla JavaScript.

I Built a Self-Hosted AI Support Widget with Spring Boot (No Monthly SaaS Fees)

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