How to Self-Host Chatwoot on Railway - The Free Alternative to Intercom ($74/mo) If you're running a small business or SaaS and need a customer support inbox, you've probably looked at Intercom. Then you saw the pricing and closed the tab. Intercom starts at $74/mo per seat. Zendesk isn't much better. For a bootstrapped founder or small team, that's a real cost before you've even talked to a customer. Chatwoot is the open-source alternative. Same features: live chat, email inbox, WhatsApp, team assignments, canned responses, analytics. But you run it yourself, so you pay for infrastructure only. Not per agent, not per conversation. On Railway, that's roughly $5–10/mo total. No seat limits. No conversation caps. What is Chatwoot? Chatwoot is an open-source customer support platform. It lets you manage all your customer conversations from a single shared inbox. Live chat, email, WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook — all in one place.…