Our Philosophy
Software should stay simple as your team grows
Most help desk software tries to do everything. It adds AI chatbots, sales pipelines, knowledge bases with gamification, and analytics dashboards that nobody reads. Every year the feature list grows and the product gets harder to use.
We took the opposite path. SupportBee does one thing: it turns customer emails into organized tickets that your team can assign, discuss, and resolve together. It feels like email because it is email, with collaboration built in.
We have been building SupportBee since 2011. We are bootstrapped and profitable. We do not have investors pushing us to add features you do not need or raise prices to hit growth targets. We answer to our customers, not a board.
Hana Mohan
Founder & CEO
Hana started SupportBee after running Muziboo, a music community with over 500,000 members. She used Gmail to handle customer support and hit the same wall every growing team hits: emails getting missed, duplicate replies, no accountability. She built the tool she wished existed.
Before SupportBee, Hana studied at IIT Guwahati. She went on to co-found MagicBell (YC W21), becoming the first openly transgender woman to go through Y Combinator.
She is based in Barcelona and writes about entrepreneurship, bootstrapping, and building inclusive companies on her blog.
Our story
15+ years of building customer support software
2011
SupportBee is born
Hana Mohan launches SupportBee after years of using Gmail to support customers at Muziboo, a 500K-member music community. The goal: a help desk that feels like email but works for teams. Hacker News ↗
2011
Startup Chile accelerator
SupportBee is accepted into Startup Chile, the Chilean government's startup accelerator program. YourStory ↗
2012
VentureBeat covers the launch
VentureBeat features SupportBee as a web tool for headache-free email support. VentureBeat ↗
2013
Microsoft Accelerator graduate
SupportBee graduates from the Microsoft Accelerator in Bangalore (Batch 2). Tech in Asia ↗
2013
The Next Web calls SupportBee a Zendesk alternative
TNW covers SupportBee's reporting platform launch, positioning it as a lightweight alternative to enterprise help desks. The Next Web ↗
2021
Nasdaq profile
Nasdaq features Hana Mohan and SupportBee in "A Company That Embraces Diversity." Nasdaq ↗
2026
15 years and counting
SupportBee serves thousands of teams worldwide. Still bootstrapped, still profitable, still focused on doing one thing well.
Press & media
Selected coverage and interviews
A Company That Embraces Diversity
Nasdaq ↗
These are the things nobody ever talks about
Every.to ↗
AMA: Bootstrapped to over $40k MRR
Indie Hackers ↗
Hana Mohan with SupportBee
iProv Made Podcast ↗
Building More Inclusive Business Systems
Beyond 8 Figures Podcast ↗
SupportBee launches web tool for headache-free email support
VentureBeat ↗
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