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hobofantoday at 7:17 AM0 repliesview on HN

> I see you have a dockerfile.combined - is this built and served via gh artifacts? I can try it out.

Our recommended way of deploying is via Helm[0] with latest version listed here[1].

> with the services expanding to fill enterprise use cases, and simplicity lost.

TBH, I don't think that simplicity was lost for OpenWebUI because of trying to fill enterprise needs. Their product has felt like a mess of too many cooks and no consistent product vision from the start. That's also where part of our origin story comes from: We started out as freelancers in the space and got inquiries to setup up a Chat UI for different companies, but didn't deem OpenWebUI and the other typical tools fit for the job, and too much of a mess internally to fork.

We are small team (no VC funding), our customers end-users are usually on the low-end of AI literacy and there is about ~1 DevOps/sysadmin at the company our tool is deployed, so we have many factors pushing us towards simplicity. Our main avenue of monetization is also via SLAs, so a simple product for which we can more easily have test coverage and feel comfortable about the stability is also in our best interest here.

[0]: https://erato.chat/docs/deployment/deployment_helm

[1]: https://artifacthub.io/packages/helm/erato/erato