Vibecode Webex Meet
track this build5 steps, step by step0%A consolation build is possible, but the paid product's decisive value sits outside a solo rebuild. For Webex Meet, host basic private calls without reproducing enterprise media and telephony infrastructure. The hard boundary is global conferencing, devices, calling, security, compliance, and support, plus real-time media infrastructure and reliability.
You are building a lean indie version of Webex Meet. Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt. ===== README.md ===== # Webex Meet indie build ## Goal Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core Webex Meet workflow for one developer or a tiny team. ## Scope Host basic private video calls in modest rooms, issue signed room links, and keep recordings only when every participant is clearly informed, without reproducing enterprise media and telephony infrastructure. ## Quick start 1. Install the documented dependencies. 2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. 3. Run the development command chosen during implementation. 4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`. ## Honest limits This build deliberately does not replace: - global conferencing, devices, calling, security, compliance, and support - global low-latency media network - dial-in and telephony - large webinars - transcription, support, and compliance If those capabilities are essential, use Jitsi Meet instead of pretending the gap is solved. ===== AGENTS.md ===== # Agent instructions - Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build. - Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief. - Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims. - Keep secrets out of source control and logs. - Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths. - Run the project checks before declaring the build complete. - Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs". ===== BUILD_PLAN.md ===== # Build plan ## Original build brief Build a closest honest personal substitute for Webex Meet in an empty repository. Use Docker Compose, Jitsi Meet, a small Next.js 15 control panel, PostgreSQL, and TURN; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: host basic private video calls in modest rooms, issue signed room links, and keep recordings only when every participant is clearly informed, without reproducing enterprise media and telephony infrastructure. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Deploy Jitsi Meet through pinned Docker images and configure a dedicated TURN service. Build an owner panel for rooms, signed invitations, expiry, lobby mode, and participant limits. Show connection diagnostics for camera, microphone, browser, bandwidth, and TURN reachability. Make recording disabled by default and require an on-screen consent state for every participant. Store room metadata and audit events, but do not store media unless explicitly enabled. Add health checks, bandwidth dashboards, backup, restore, upgrade, and incident instructions. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Do not claim to reproduce proprietary data, network liquidity, regulated access, or frontier infrastructure. Deliberately leave out a global media edge network. Deliberately leave out public webinar scale and telephony. Deliberately leave out regulated recording, enterprise compliance, and guaranteed support. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Required capabilities - public server with strong bandwidth - domain and TLS - TURN server - Docker - explicit participant consent for recording ## Delivery order 1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands. 2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow. 3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence. 4. Cover the critical path with automated tests. 5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step. ## Done when - A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README. - The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it. - Tests cover the highest-risk behavior. - Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden. ===== .env.example ===== # Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced. # Never put real credentials in this file. APP_ENV=development # Add only values required by the selected implementation.
You are building a lean indie version of Webex Meet. Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt. ===== README.md ===== # Webex Meet indie build ## Goal Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core Webex Meet workflow for one developer or a tiny team. ## Scope Host basic private video calls in modest rooms, issue signed room links, and keep recordings only when every participant is clearly informed, without reproducing enterprise media and telephony infrastructure. ## Quick start 1. Install the documented dependencies. 2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. 3. Run the development command chosen during implementation. 4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`. ## Honest limits This build deliberately does not replace: - global conferencing, devices, calling, security, compliance, and support - global low-latency media network - dial-in and telephony - large webinars - transcription, support, and compliance If those capabilities are essential, use Jitsi Meet instead of pretending the gap is solved. ===== AGENTS.md ===== # Agent instructions - Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build. - Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief. - Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims. - Keep secrets out of source control and logs. - Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths. - Run the project checks before declaring the build complete. - Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs". ===== BUILD_PLAN.md ===== # Build plan ## Original build brief Build a closest honest personal substitute for Webex Meet in an empty repository. Use Docker Compose, Jitsi Meet, a small Next.js 15 control panel, PostgreSQL, and TURN; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: host basic private video calls in modest rooms, issue signed room links, and keep recordings only when every participant is clearly informed, without reproducing enterprise media and telephony infrastructure. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Deploy Jitsi Meet through pinned Docker images and configure a dedicated TURN service. Build an owner panel for rooms, signed invitations, expiry, lobby mode, and participant limits. Show connection diagnostics for camera, microphone, browser, bandwidth, and TURN reachability. Make recording disabled by default and require an on-screen consent state for every participant. Store room metadata and audit events, but do not store media unless explicitly enabled. Add health checks, bandwidth dashboards, backup, restore, upgrade, and incident instructions. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Do not claim to reproduce proprietary data, network liquidity, regulated access, or frontier infrastructure. Deliberately leave out a global media edge network. Deliberately leave out public webinar scale and telephony. Deliberately leave out regulated recording, enterprise compliance, and guaranteed support. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Required capabilities - public server with strong bandwidth - domain and TLS - TURN server - Docker - explicit participant consent for recording ## Delivery order 1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands. 2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow. 3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence. 4. Cover the critical path with automated tests. 5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step. ## Done when - A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README. - The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it. - Tests cover the highest-risk behavior. - Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden. ===== .env.example ===== # Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced. # Never put real credentials in this file. APP_ENV=development # Add only values required by the selected implementation.
You are building a production product version of Webex Meet. Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt. ===== PRODUCT.md ===== # Webex Meet product brief ## Problem A consolation build is possible, but the paid product's decisive value sits outside a solo rebuild. For Webex Meet, host basic private calls without reproducing enterprise media and telephony infrastructure. The hard boundary is global conferencing, devices, calling, security, compliance, and support, plus real-time media infrastructure and reliability. ## Product outcome Host basic private video calls in modest rooms, issue signed room links, and keep recordings only when every participant is clearly informed, without reproducing enterprise media and telephony infrastructure. ## Target user A serious builder who needs a maintainable product foundation rather than a one-off demo. ## Required capabilities - public server with strong bandwidth - domain and TLS - TURN server - Docker - explicit participant consent for recording ## Explicit non-goals for v1 - global conferencing, devices, calling, security, compliance, and support - global low-latency media network - dial-in and telephony - large webinars - transcription, support, and compliance ## Success criteria - The primary workflow is measurable end to end. - Setup is reproducible in a clean environment. - Failure, recovery, and support paths are documented. - Product claims match what the implementation actually guarantees. ===== ARCHITECTURE.md ===== # Architecture ## Starting brief Build a closest honest personal substitute for Webex Meet in an empty repository. Use Docker Compose, Jitsi Meet, a small Next.js 15 control panel, PostgreSQL, and TURN; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: host basic private video calls in modest rooms, issue signed room links, and keep recordings only when every participant is clearly informed, without reproducing enterprise media and telephony infrastructure. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Deploy Jitsi Meet through pinned Docker images and configure a dedicated TURN service. Build an owner panel for rooms, signed invitations, expiry, lobby mode, and participant limits. Show connection diagnostics for camera, microphone, browser, bandwidth, and TURN reachability. Make recording disabled by default and require an on-screen consent state for every participant. Store room metadata and audit events, but do not store media unless explicitly enabled. Add health checks, bandwidth dashboards, backup, restore, upgrade, and incident instructions. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Do not claim to reproduce proprietary data, network liquidity, regulated access, or frontier infrastructure. Deliberately leave out a global media edge network. Deliberately leave out public webinar scale and telephony. Deliberately leave out regulated recording, enterprise compliance, and guaranteed support. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Boundaries Separate the product into replaceable modules for interface, application logic, persistence, external integrations, and operational concerns. Keep domain logic independent from delivery frameworks and vendors. ## Production baseline - Configuration: validated at startup with safe local defaults where possible. - Security: least privilege, input validation, secret redaction, rate limits on abuse-prone paths, and no invented security primitives. - Data: explicit schema and migrations, transactional writes where integrity matters, backup and restore instructions. - Integrations: adapters around third-party providers, idempotent webhook or job processing, bounded retries, and timeouts. - Observability: structured logs with request or operation IDs, an error-tracking hook, and health/readiness checks where a server exists. - Quality: unit tests for domain rules, integration tests at module boundaries, and one end-to-end critical-path test. ## Decision records For each major dependency, document why it was chosen, its failure mode, and how it can be replaced. Do not introduce infrastructure until a requirement justifies it. ===== AGENTS.md ===== # Agent instructions - Read `PRODUCT.md` and `ARCHITECTURE.md` before changing code. - Implement milestone by milestone; keep each change reviewable and leave the application runnable. - Treat authentication, payments, encryption, imports, webhooks, and destructive actions as high-risk boundaries when present. - Never invent cryptography or silently weaken a requirement to make a test pass. - Use provider interfaces for external services and deterministic fakes in tests. - Add migrations and rollback or recovery notes for persistent data changes. - Log useful operational context without credentials, tokens, passwords, or personal data. - Update documentation and run all checks before completing a milestone. ===== MILESTONES.md ===== # Delivery milestones ## M0 — Decisions and scaffold - Confirm the runtime, persistence model, threat boundaries, and deployment target. - Create a reproducible local environment and continuous checks. ## M1 — Core workflow - Implement the smallest end-to-end product path with validation and tests. - Keep integrations behind interfaces. ## M2 — Trust layer - Add secure failure behavior, recovery paths, audit-relevant events, and data safeguards. - Test abuse cases and destructive operations. ## M3 — Operability - Add structured logs, error reporting hooks, health signals, backup/restore documentation, and deployment configuration. ## M4 — Release gate - Run a clean-install test, critical-path end-to-end test, dependency review, and documented rollback exercise. - Compare the shipped behavior with `PRODUCT.md` and publish remaining limitations. ===== OPERATIONS.md ===== # Operations ## Before release - Validate configuration and secrets at startup. - Define backup, restore, and rollback procedures and test them. - Document logs, error tracking, health signals, and alert ownership. - Set dependency update and vulnerability review expectations. ## Incident checklist 1. Contain the issue without destroying evidence or user data. 2. Record the timeline and affected scope. 3. Rotate exposed secrets and revoke compromised sessions or credentials. 4. Restore from a verified source when needed. 5. Document the root cause, remediation, and regression test. ## Launch constraint Do not market omitted Webex Meet capabilities as implemented. The v1 non-goals in `PRODUCT.md` remain user-visible limitations until they are deliberately delivered.
# Webex Meet indie build ## Goal Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core Webex Meet workflow for one developer or a tiny team. ## Scope Host basic private video calls in modest rooms, issue signed room links, and keep recordings only when every participant is clearly informed, without reproducing enterprise media and telephony infrastructure. ## Quick start 1. Install the documented dependencies. 2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. 3. Run the development command chosen during implementation. 4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`. ## Honest limits This build deliberately does not replace: - global conferencing, devices, calling, security, compliance, and support - global low-latency media network - dial-in and telephony - large webinars - transcription, support, and compliance If those capabilities are essential, use Jitsi Meet instead of pretending the gap is solved.
# Agent instructions - Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build. - Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief. - Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims. - Keep secrets out of source control and logs. - Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths. - Run the project checks before declaring the build complete. - Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs".
# Build plan ## Original build brief Build a closest honest personal substitute for Webex Meet in an empty repository. Use Docker Compose, Jitsi Meet, a small Next.js 15 control panel, PostgreSQL, and TURN; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: host basic private video calls in modest rooms, issue signed room links, and keep recordings only when every participant is clearly informed, without reproducing enterprise media and telephony infrastructure. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Deploy Jitsi Meet through pinned Docker images and configure a dedicated TURN service. Build an owner panel for rooms, signed invitations, expiry, lobby mode, and participant limits. Show connection diagnostics for camera, microphone, browser, bandwidth, and TURN reachability. Make recording disabled by default and require an on-screen consent state for every participant. Store room metadata and audit events, but do not store media unless explicitly enabled. Add health checks, bandwidth dashboards, backup, restore, upgrade, and incident instructions. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Do not claim to reproduce proprietary data, network liquidity, regulated access, or frontier infrastructure. Deliberately leave out a global media edge network. Deliberately leave out public webinar scale and telephony. Deliberately leave out regulated recording, enterprise compliance, and guaranteed support. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Required capabilities - public server with strong bandwidth - domain and TLS - TURN server - Docker - explicit participant consent for recording ## Delivery order 1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands. 2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow. 3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence. 4. Cover the critical path with automated tests. 5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step. ## Done when - A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README. - The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it. - Tests cover the highest-risk behavior. - Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden.
# Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced. # Never put real credentials in this file. APP_ENV=development # Add only values required by the selected implementation.
# Webex Meet product brief ## Problem A consolation build is possible, but the paid product's decisive value sits outside a solo rebuild. For Webex Meet, host basic private calls without reproducing enterprise media and telephony infrastructure. The hard boundary is global conferencing, devices, calling, security, compliance, and support, plus real-time media infrastructure and reliability. ## Product outcome Host basic private video calls in modest rooms, issue signed room links, and keep recordings only when every participant is clearly informed, without reproducing enterprise media and telephony infrastructure. ## Target user A serious builder who needs a maintainable product foundation rather than a one-off demo. ## Required capabilities - public server with strong bandwidth - domain and TLS - TURN server - Docker - explicit participant consent for recording ## Explicit non-goals for v1 - global conferencing, devices, calling, security, compliance, and support - global low-latency media network - dial-in and telephony - large webinars - transcription, support, and compliance ## Success criteria - The primary workflow is measurable end to end. - Setup is reproducible in a clean environment. - Failure, recovery, and support paths are documented. - Product claims match what the implementation actually guarantees.
# Architecture ## Starting brief Build a closest honest personal substitute for Webex Meet in an empty repository. Use Docker Compose, Jitsi Meet, a small Next.js 15 control panel, PostgreSQL, and TURN; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: host basic private video calls in modest rooms, issue signed room links, and keep recordings only when every participant is clearly informed, without reproducing enterprise media and telephony infrastructure. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Deploy Jitsi Meet through pinned Docker images and configure a dedicated TURN service. Build an owner panel for rooms, signed invitations, expiry, lobby mode, and participant limits. Show connection diagnostics for camera, microphone, browser, bandwidth, and TURN reachability. Make recording disabled by default and require an on-screen consent state for every participant. Store room metadata and audit events, but do not store media unless explicitly enabled. Add health checks, bandwidth dashboards, backup, restore, upgrade, and incident instructions. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Do not claim to reproduce proprietary data, network liquidity, regulated access, or frontier infrastructure. Deliberately leave out a global media edge network. Deliberately leave out public webinar scale and telephony. Deliberately leave out regulated recording, enterprise compliance, and guaranteed support. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Boundaries Separate the product into replaceable modules for interface, application logic, persistence, external integrations, and operational concerns. Keep domain logic independent from delivery frameworks and vendors. ## Production baseline - Configuration: validated at startup with safe local defaults where possible. - Security: least privilege, input validation, secret redaction, rate limits on abuse-prone paths, and no invented security primitives. - Data: explicit schema and migrations, transactional writes where integrity matters, backup and restore instructions. - Integrations: adapters around third-party providers, idempotent webhook or job processing, bounded retries, and timeouts. - Observability: structured logs with request or operation IDs, an error-tracking hook, and health/readiness checks where a server exists. - Quality: unit tests for domain rules, integration tests at module boundaries, and one end-to-end critical-path test. ## Decision records For each major dependency, document why it was chosen, its failure mode, and how it can be replaced. Do not introduce infrastructure until a requirement justifies it.
# Agent instructions - Read `PRODUCT.md` and `ARCHITECTURE.md` before changing code. - Implement milestone by milestone; keep each change reviewable and leave the application runnable. - Treat authentication, payments, encryption, imports, webhooks, and destructive actions as high-risk boundaries when present. - Never invent cryptography or silently weaken a requirement to make a test pass. - Use provider interfaces for external services and deterministic fakes in tests. - Add migrations and rollback or recovery notes for persistent data changes. - Log useful operational context without credentials, tokens, passwords, or personal data. - Update documentation and run all checks before completing a milestone.
# Delivery milestones ## M0 — Decisions and scaffold - Confirm the runtime, persistence model, threat boundaries, and deployment target. - Create a reproducible local environment and continuous checks. ## M1 — Core workflow - Implement the smallest end-to-end product path with validation and tests. - Keep integrations behind interfaces. ## M2 — Trust layer - Add secure failure behavior, recovery paths, audit-relevant events, and data safeguards. - Test abuse cases and destructive operations. ## M3 — Operability - Add structured logs, error reporting hooks, health signals, backup/restore documentation, and deployment configuration. ## M4 — Release gate - Run a clean-install test, critical-path end-to-end test, dependency review, and documented rollback exercise. - Compare the shipped behavior with `PRODUCT.md` and publish remaining limitations.
# Operations ## Before release - Validate configuration and secrets at startup. - Define backup, restore, and rollback procedures and test them. - Document logs, error tracking, health signals, and alert ownership. - Set dependency update and vulnerability review expectations. ## Incident checklist 1. Contain the issue without destroying evidence or user data. 2. Record the timeline and affected scope. 3. Rotate exposed secrets and revoke compromised sessions or credentials. 4. Restore from a verified source when needed. 5. Document the root cause, remediation, and regression test. ## Launch constraint Do not market omitted Webex Meet capabilities as implemented. The v1 non-goals in `PRODUCT.md` remain user-visible limitations until they are deliberately delivered.
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People still pay for Webex Meet because video products survive because real-time media quality and global reliability are infrastructure businesses, not weekend interface projects. The recurring cost buys TURN capacity, codecs, browsers, packet loss, scaling, recording, consent, abuse, monitoring, and incident response, not just the visible interface.
xglobal conferencing, devices, calling, security, compliance, and support
xglobal low-latency media network
xdial-in and telephony
xlarge webinars
xtranscription, support, and compliance
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Webex Meet pricing
| plan | monthly | annual (per mo) | what you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| webex free | $0/user | $0/user | Meetings up to 40 minutes and 100 attendees; unlimited meetings; local recording |
| webex meet | $14.50/user | $12/user | Meetings up to 24 hours and 200 attendees; 10 GB cloud recording storage |
| webex suite, meet + call | $25/user | $22.50/user | Meetings up to 24 hours and 200 attendees; 10 GB cloud recording storage; cloud calling |
| webex enterprise | custom | — | Meetings up to 24 hours and 1,000 attendees; unlimited cloud recording storage |
free tier40 minutes per meeting; 100 attendees; unlimited meetings; local recording
billingmonthly + annual; annual Webex Meet is $144 per license and Meet + Call is $270 per license; annual plans are unavailable in Germany
hidden costsEach concurrent hosted meeting needs another host license. Real-Time Translation is $300/license/year; Call Me Domestic is $48/user/year and Call Me International is $429/user/year. International long-distance calling can also be metered per minute.
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Vibecode Webex Meet
Not really. Webex Meet's value is not the code: Recheck price before merge. See the honest breakdown above.
How much does Webex Meet cost?
Webex Meet costs about $14.5/month (Meet, checked 2026-07-31), which is $174 per year.
What do I lose by replacing Webex Meet?
Honestly: global conferencing, devices, calling, security, compliance, and support; global low-latency media network; dial-in and telephony; large webinars; transcription, support, and compliance. If any of those are load-bearing for you, keep paying.
Is there an open-source alternative to Webex Meet?
Yes: Jitsi Meet (Click a room link and meet; enterprise telephony sensibly stays behind.) MiroTalk SFU (A capable WebRTC room in one Docker stack, with lobby, whiteboard and recording.) Nextcloud Talk (Calls and chat inside Nextcloud; scaling it turns into a TURN-server hobby.) All 3 curated free alternatives are at vibecodeit.com/webex-meet/alternatives. The prompt is for when you want it exactly your way.