TalkJS
TalkJS provides a chat API, SDKs, and customizable pre-built interfaces that let developers add production-ready in-app messaging to websites and apps in minutes rather than months. Its stated broader ambition is to build the messaging framework for the internet.
At a Glance
- Marketplaces
- SaaS and internet platforms
- Communities and social products
- Edtech
- +3 more
AI Tools by TalkJS
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AI Support Agent for Websites
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Latest News
Build custom iOS chat with the Swift Data API
Added dark mode to TalkJS chat through Components SDK 0.3.9
Enterprise Single Sign-On with OpenID Connect
Released Flutter SDK v0.18.0 with platform compatibility and API updates
Products & Services
SaaS chat infrastructure and APIs for users, conversations, messages, notifications, moderation, analytics, and real-time messaging, with a ready-to-ship customizable UI.
Customizable React and Web Components for inboxes, conversation lists, and chatboxes, including themes, dark mode, and component-level control.
Headless real-time data access for building custom chat interfaces, including JavaScript, Kotlin for Android, Flutter Core, and Swift for iOS/macOS.
AI customer-support agent that learns from a company’s existing content, answers questions, escalates uncertain cases to humans with context, and runs on TalkJS infrastructure.
Market Position
TalkJS positions itself as a focused, product-led alternative to building chat in-house: it combines backend messaging infrastructure, a ready-made but deeply customizable UI, notifications, moderation, and SDKs. Its comparison material places it against CometChat, Sendbird, Stream, and Ably, emphasizing that TalkJS includes the full UI and charges by MAU; it claims the lowest cost among comparable UI-providing, MAU-priced APIs at 10,000 and 25,000 users.
Leadership
Founders
Egbert Teeselink
Software architect and engineer; LinkedIn search results describe prior work as a software architect, project manager, and customer representative, and as owner/software architect at Superset. He is a TalkJS co-founder and co-CEO.
Joshua Schoenaker
Designer and entrepreneur, and founder/CEO of TalkJS; his personal site describes him as a designer and entrepreneur. He previously built startups including Klets and co-founded TalkJS.
Executive Team
Joshua Schoenaker
Co-founder and CEO
Designer and entrepreneur; founder/CEO of TalkJS and creator of startups including Klets.
Egbert Teeselink
Co-founder and Co-CEO
Software architect and engineer with prior architecture, project-management, and customer-representative experience; previously owner/software architect at Superset.
Founding Story
The founders were surprised that websites did not have a ready-made, high-quality chat component. They started TalkJS to solve that recurring problem for product teams: provide focused chat infrastructure and a polished UI so developers would not have to build and operate messaging themselves.
Business Model
Revenue Model
SaaS subscription priced primarily by monthly active users (MAU), with development mode free and paid plans for production usage; enterprise contracts add custom limits, support, security, and deployment options.
Pricing Tiers
Includes 10,000 MAU; each additional MAU is $0.04.
Includes 25,000 MAU; each additional MAU is $0.03.
Custom MAU, priority phone/chat/email support, SSO, SLA and high-load guarantees, dedicated/private deployment options, and other enterprise controls.
Target Markets
- Marketplaces
- SaaS and internet platforms
- Communities and social products
- Edtech
- Healthcare
- Fintech and regulated businesses
- Buyer-seller messaging in marketplaces
- Team and workplace collaboration
- Customer support and AI support agents
- Education communication between students and teachers
- Healthcare communication
- Social/community apps and large public channels
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