Opendesk

Judgement

What it is

Complete system

What it does

A support inbox combining email, live chat and a help centre with realtime updates for the whole team.

Adopt it when

You are evaluating new self-hosted helpdesks and are willing to adopt very early software.

Watch out

The repository is three weeks old and at version 0.4, so expect breaking changes.

Ready for

Experimental

Runs as

Self-hosted server and mobile app

Built with

Go, TypeScript and PostgreSQL

How established

New: started under a month ago, latest release v0.4.7.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Opendesk → Go → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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