How to Build Your Own Hiver
Replace Hiver with a custom build. AI-powered customer service platform
Build Difficulty: 4/5
A few focused days to build a solid replacement
Estimated Timeline
Based on 70 features at Few Days difficulty, expect about 3-5 days with AI-assisted development.
Recommended Tech Stack
Full-stack React framework with API routes and server components
PostgreSQL database, auth, and real-time subscriptions
Utility-first styling for rapid UI development
Key Features to Replicate
Top features across 8 categories. See all 70 features
Hiver AI(13 features)
Autonomously resolve repetitive queries, schedule follow-ups, and trigger workflows across tools, teams, and channels
Resolve support conversations across channels with up to a 70% deflection rate
Help teams compose impactful responses effortlessly. Use AI to refine grammar, adjust tone, and enhance writing clarity
Assist your team with contextual support — draft replies, suggest next steps, refine replies, summarize threads and more
Use AI to pull key details like order IDs or reference numbers from conversations and push them into Automations for routing, alerts, and contextual notes
+8 more in this category
Automation(12 features)
Simplify approval workflows to faster approvals on requests from customers, vendors, or employees from the comfort of your inbox
Automatically send responses to acknowledge new conversations received within or outside business hours
Automatically assign and reassign conversations to various team members in a Round-Robin manner for better workload distribution
Define when your team can service customers and track SLA compliance during those hours. Trigger auto-responders during off-hours
Maximize the potential of your Live Chat with Chatbots to speed up responses and improve agent productivity — all within your inbox
+7 more in this category
Ticketing(9 features)
Provide your team full customer context—past emails, feedback, and more—so they can respond faster and serve smarter
Collect and store specific information about customer issues to sort conversations, automate workflows and track trends
Save canned responses as email templates and share them with your team to provide faster, more consistent responses
Link similar conversations to track related issues with shared visibility
Enable users and supervisors to solve customer service issues on-the-go with Hiver's iOS and Android mobile apps
+4 more in this category
Analytics(8 features)
Get insights about your team's workload and performance, in terms of the conversations being handled
Analyze the satisfaction and AI-predicted sentiments of your customers through reports
Measure customer satisfaction and collect feedback from your customers by sending a short survey
Start from scratch or build on pre-built reports to analyze your team's performance
Create custom dashboards to view all crucial performance indicators across different shared inboxes in a single place
+3 more in this category
Collaboration(7 features)
Use the collaborative inbox to easily assign queries, discuss them internally, and fast-track responses—without forwards or CCs
Help teams avoid sending duplicate replies with real-time collision alerts. Ensure no two team members work on the same query
Managers and supervisors can follow important or escalated conversations to get real time updates on the progress
Let teams securely share and access sensitive documents internally
Collaborate within your team seamlessly, without CCs and forwards. Use @mention to tag a colleague and write a note
+2 more in this category
Apps(5 features)
Fetch business and customer data using out-of-the-box integrations with apps like Asana, Jira, QuickBooks, and more
Access Hiver data programmatically using REST APIs to build custom integrations with tools of your choice
Integrate your favorite apps with Hiver to bring all your service channels, apps, and customer context in one place
Build smart workflows and automate daily tasks by integrating your favorite apps like Salesforce, Hubspot, Zapier and Hiver APIs
Integrate Slack channels with Hiver to receive Slack updates and notifications in real time
Channels(4 features)
Engage website visitors with live chat, automatically route messages, and deflect repetitive queries with AI-powered chatbots
Support customers across email, chat, slack, voice, WhatsApp, and social media channels
Transform your inbox into a powerful voice support centre, delivering exceptional customer service via Aircall integration
Integrate your business's WhatsApp number as a support channel with Hiver to offer WhatsApp support within your inbox
Team Management(4 features)
Define roles that suit your own organizational structure and workflow by provisioning and limiting access to various features
Enable team members to schedule and manage their availability, ensuring new conversations are attended to during their absence
Run your support team like clockwork—effortlessly manage workload, assignments, availability, and performance
Manage, optimize, visualize and track your team's workload. Monitor team capacity, redistribute tasks, and improve collaboration
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DIY hosting estimate based on Vercel + Supabase free/pro tiers (~$20/mo). Build time estimated from 70 features at easy complexity.