aEye - AI Chatbot SaaS Platform
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Train an AI chatbot on your own business knowledge and deploy it to your website and WhatsApp in minutes.
2025-01 • In Progress
Domain: SaaS, AI, Chatbots, RAG
Tech: Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript, MySQL, NextAuth v5, Stripe, Anthropic Claude API, WhatsApp Business API, Tailwind CSS
Impact
- Gave small and mid-sized businesses an affordable way to launch a custom AI assistant trained on their own content, without writing code.
- Replaced static FAQ pages and slow email support with a 24/7 AI agent that answers from the business's own documents.
- Unified website chat and WhatsApp conversations under a single bot and a single inbox.
- Turned chatbot conversations into a lead capture and qualification channel for sales teams.
Responsibilities
- Designed and built the full multi-tenant architecture, from database schema to dashboard UI.
- Built the knowledge ingestion pipeline that crawls URLs, parses uploaded documents, and indexes them for retrieval.
- Implemented the RAG chat engine on top of the Anthropic Claude API.
- Integrated Stripe subscription billing, plan limits, and webhook-driven entitlement updates.
- Built the WhatsApp Business API integration including webhook handling and message routing.
- Developed the autonomous AI blog bot and its scheduled publishing pipeline.
- Built the hidden admin panel for platform operations and user management.
- Dockerized the full Next.js + MySQL stack with multi-stage builds for optimized production images.
- Built a GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline that auto-deploys to a Hetzner VPS on merge to main, with zero-downtime container restarts.
Key Features
- Train custom chatbots on uploaded files, pasted text, or crawled website URLs
- Embeddable website chat widget with branded styling
- WhatsApp Business integration for the same bot
- Conversation history and lead capture per bot
- Stripe-powered subscriptions with usage limits
- AI blog bot that auto-publishes SEO content on a schedule
- Bot management dashboard with knowledge base and settings per bot
- Admin panel for user, plan, and platform management
Architecture
- Next.js 16 App Router with React 19 server components for the dashboard, marketing site, and API routes
- MySQL with a manually managed schema (no ORM) for full control over multi-tenant data
- NextAuth v5 for authentication with role-based access for tenants and admins
- RAG pipeline that chunks, embeds, and retrieves knowledge per bot before calling Claude
- Stripe webhooks drive subscription state and feature gating
- WhatsApp Business webhooks bridged into the same conversation pipeline as the web widget
- Cron-driven jobs for the AI blog bot and background maintenance tasks
- Dockerized stack with multi-stage builds, running on a Hetzner VPS
- GitHub Actions CI/CD that rebuilds and ships containers on merge to main with zero-downtime restarts
