wtf is mongodb.help?

mongodb.help is an open source, chat based support tool built for MongoDB developers. Instead of searching through documentation or pasting an error into a generic chatbot, you paste your error, question, or slow query into one box and get an answer grounded in the official MongoDB documentation, with citations back to the source. The project describes itself as unofficial and community run, not affiliated with or endorsed by MongoDB Inc. The homepage is the tool itself, there is no marketing page in front of it. Answers are meant to be grounded rather than invented, and the tool supports multiple languages out of the box, including English, Turkish, French, Spanish, Arabic, German, and Russian. It is free to use, with a larger daily quota for people who sign up, and it can be self hosted using Docker Compose for development or Docker Swarm for production. Under the hood, it is built as a multi service system. A FastAPI backend written in Python handles the chat pipeline, usage limits, a credit and wallet system, and support tickets. Two separate Next.js applications serve the main chat frontend and a leads dashboard for admins to review signups and tickets. MongoDB itself stores users, wallets, chats, and tickets, while a separate MongoDB Knowledge Service performs retrieval over the real documentation to ground the answers. An nginx layer routes traffic between the services in production. Getting started requires Docker and Docker Compose. You clone the repository, copy the example environment file, fill in required secrets like database connection strings and OAuth credentials, and run docker compose up. The frontend, an admin leads dashboard, and a Swagger API documentation page each become available on their own local port. The backend also supports being run natively with Python and Node without Docker. The project is released under the Apache 2.0 license.