A chatbot kit that's already retired

What it does

This is a Next.js starter that scrapes your website, converts the text into OpenAI embeddings via text-embedding-ada-002, stores them in Supabase’s pgvector extension, and exposes a chat interface where users can ask questions against that content. The scraping logic lives in a custom Cheerio-based loader where you manually map CSS selectors to extract title, date, and content from pages.

The interesting bit

The project doubles as a tutorial vehicle—there’s a YouTube walkthrough and a visual guide folder—suggesting it was built more for teaching LangChain patterns than production use. The embedding pipeline is explicit: scrape, vectorize, store, then retrieve with match_documents.

Key highlights

• Uses text-embedding-ada-002 and Supabase’s pgvector for retrieval
• Scraping script (npm run scrape-embed) is decoupled from the app runtime
• Requires manual CSS selector configuration per target site in custom_web_loader.ts
• Frontend borrowed from an earlier community project (langchain-chat-nextjs)
• Sample data comes from productivity blogger Thomas Frank’s Notion guides

Caveats

• Explicitly unmaintained: the README banner warns against expecting issue or PR responses
• No mention of rate limiting, caching, or auth—just the core plumbing
• Scraping logic is brittle by design; one CSS change on your site breaks extraction

Verdict

Good for understanding how LangChain + vector retrieval fits together in a Next.js context, especially if you pair it with the video tutorial. Skip it if you need something maintained, or if your content lives anywhere other than static web pages you control.