Karthik Kamalakannan
Karthik Kamalakannan Founder and CEO

Helpdock Product Principles

Our guiding principles for building the best live chat platform for product teams.

Published January 26, 2025
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Helpdock Product Principles

We built Helpdock with a clear goal - to create the best live chat platform for product teams. These five product principles guide every decision we make, helping us move fast, stay focused, and deliver an exceptional experience.

They cut across design, engineering, sales, and every other part of Helpdock, ensuring everything we do reflects the same level of care and intent.

We hope these principles inspire you to build products that are just as thoughtful.

Product Principles

1. Get the basics right

Simple design. Clear messaging. Focused thinking. Great products start with getting the fundamentals right.

2. Accessible, empathetic, and human

Helpdock should feel effortless to use. Every interaction must be intuitive, inclusive, and built with empathy for real people.

3. Speed is default

Every millisecond matters. When we make things faster, we give people back their time, the most valuable thing they have. That's the impact of our work.

4. What we ship matters

Every detail counts. Every decision shapes the experience. What we release must be thoughtful, refined, and built to last.

5. Only the essentials

No bloat. No distractions. We build only what's essential to help teams deliver fast, human support, and nothing more, nothing less.

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