ElkDesk – I rage-quit Zendesk and built my own

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I run a few apps (AI Singer App, Pawtograph, TravelFeed). Support emails were eating 3+ hours of my day.Tried Zendesk. Spent 2 hours configuring triggers before I could reply to a single email. The $25/month turned into $298/month for my setup. Closed the tab.So I built something for myself:- Tickets left, conversation right (that's the whole UI) - AI suggestions trained on your replies, not generic stuff - Knowledge base that grows as you answer questions - 5 min setupLeft out on purpose: SLAs, workforce management, skills-based routing, phone/chat. If you need those, this isn't for you.The goal isn't "Zendesk for small teams". It's the anti-Zendesk — do 5 things well instead of 50 things a

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