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What is this?

This project is a Gatsby Starter for a free self-hosted help center. You don't need to know how to code in order to set it up, and you can host it for free on any static site hosting service.

Written by Dominik
Published on 1/2/2020

El objetivo de este proyecto es permitir que cualquiera pueda configurar un centro de ayuda gratuito para su producto. Los Centros de ayuda son sitios web que contienen documentación, respuestas a preguntas frecuentes y sugerencias para su producto o servicio. Tener un centro de ayuda reduce la cantidad de tickets de soporte que recibirá. Ni siquiera necesita saber cómo codificar para configurarlo. Este centro de ayuda viene con toneladas de documentación que lo guían a través de la configuración y el uso continuo.

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Centro de ayuda?

Este proyecto le permite configurar un centro de ayuda para su producto. Los usuarios de su producto pueden visitar el centro de ayuda para encontrar respuestas a problemas recurrentes, conocer funciones avanzadas o incluso los últimos cambios. El contenido depende completamente de usted.

Por lo general, tener un centro de ayuda reduce en gran medida la cantidad de solicitudes de soporte que recibirá, ya que sus usuarios encontrarán respuestas a las preguntas más comunes en su centro de ayuda.

Piense en un centro de ayuda como un híbrido de preguntas frecuentes, consejos profesionales para usuarios avanzados y un registro de cambios.

What is this exactly?

I needed a help center for a project I’m working on, but I wasn’t happy with the existing solutions. Most of them were paid SaaS-products, which offered way more features than I needed and had a hefty price tag. Instead, I set out to create a help center myself. I later converted it into a Gatsby Starter called gatsby-starter-help-center and open-sourced it.

You can use gatsby-starter-help-center to build your own help center. The remaining documentation shows you how to set it up, edit your content and how to host it for free.

How to use this project?

You’ll need to create a new Gatsby Starter based on gatsby-starter-help-center. Then you’ll fill the starter with your own content by creating and editing Markdown files. The collections are managed through a YAML file. Finally you’ll need to host the generated static site. There are free solutions like Netlify for this.

The full setup instructions are written down in ”Setup“.

What does the help center look like?

The page you’re looking at right now is built with gatsby-starter-help-center, so it should give you a good impression of what you’ll get. The colors, style and icons are fully customizable.

Acknowledgements

This project is heavily inspired by Intercom’s help center. The idea of organizing the content into collections, sections and articles was taken from there, as well as the idea for the overall design.

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