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A product from Ripple Design

We built our own Zoom.
You’re invited.

Free, browser-based, self-hosted in Mumbai. Open a URL, share the link, get on the call.

Start a meeting

No signup. No app. No usage limits.

Used by Ripple Design for every client call since May 2026. Now open to anyone.

Zero onboarding. The URL is the room.

No download wall. No "create an account." No "verify your email." Click start, you land on a fresh URL. Share that URL, anyone with the link joins. The whole flow is a tab and a tap.

Headline 'A URL. That's instant onboarding.' Browser bar shows meet.rippledesign.co/design-review with an arrow into four participant tiles. Strikethrough list shows what other meeting tools require (download the app, create an account, verify your email, two-factor setup, version update, allow notifications, pick a plan), all skipped.

A layout that reads the room.

Four people on a call, equal-sized grid, everyone visible. One person sharing a screen, the screen takes the focus and faces collapse into a strip. The switch happens automatically. No menu to fish through, no "who broke the layout" moments.

Headline 'The layout adapts. You don't.' Four equal-sized tiles in a grid on the left, an auto-transition arrow, then the same call reshaped on the right with one speaker spotlighted and three thumbnails below.

Screen share that doesn’t shrink your work.

When you share, the shared content takes the real estate it deserves. Faces step aside into a thumbnail column. Built for design reviews, code walkthroughs, and demos. Not for staring contests with twelve postage-stamp tiles.

Headline 'The screen gets the focus. Faces step back.' A shared design canvas dominates the frame with a properties panel on the right. Participants are collapsed into a small column of thumbnails on the side.

Works anywhere a browser does.

Same call on a laptop and on a phone, no app to install on either. Layout adapts: landscape grid on the desk, portrait spotlight on the phone. Switch devices mid-call and the room is still there.

Headline 'Runs anywhere a browser does.' A laptop showing a four-tile grid view and a phone showing a single-speaker spotlight view, connected by a dotted line labeled 'same call.'

Why does a design studio build a meeting tool?

Honest answer: we were tired of Zoom prompting us to update in the middle of client calls. The prospect waits awkwardly while a meeting tool installs itself. That is not the first impression we wanted to make.

So we built Ripple Meet. It runs on a single LiveKit server in Mumbai, costs us a fixed amount per month regardless of how many meetings happen, and has no marketing surface inside the product. We use it for every client call now.

The deeper reason: Ripple Design is a software studio, not a design shop. We ship products end-to-end. We’ve built a lot of internal tools over the years. GST Invoice Generator was the first we opened to the public, Ripple Meet is the second, and we keep building new ones as the team needs them. The door opens on the ones useful enough to share.

Today, and what we’re building next

Use it today for

  • Client kickoffs and design reviews
  • Quick one-on-one syncs
  • Demos to prospects
  • Interviews you don’t want to clutter with a Zoom invite
  • Office hours and collaborator chats

Building next

  • Recording for async review
  • Dial-in phone bridges
  • Admin tooling for org-wide use (already shipping internally)
  • More as the team needs it

The one thing not on the roadmap: 50+ person webinars. For those, Zoom keeps the title.

Ready when you are.

Start a meeting

Free. No signup. Just a URL.

How it works

  1. 1

    Click Start a meeting

    Opens meet.rippledesign.co in a new tab and drops you on a fresh room URL.

  2. 2

    Name the room, allow camera and mic, hit join

    Rename the slug to something memorable (like design-review) before you join, or keep the auto-generated one.

  3. 3

    Share the URL. Anyone with the link is in.

    No invites, no waiting room. Send the link over WhatsApp, email, calendar invite, whatever you already use.

Questions

Is it really free? What is the catch?

No catch. We built Ripple Meet to replace Zoom for our own client calls and decided to leave the door open. Self-hosted on our own AWS Lightsail instance in Mumbai, no per-minute billing, no participant cap. If hundreds of operators start using it tomorrow we might add a soft limit, but you will see it before it affects you.

Who hosts it? Where does my call data go?

We do, on a single AWS Lightsail instance in Mumbai. The media flows through a self-hosted LiveKit SFU we run. No third party sees your call. We see what every operator sees: the box health and aggregate room counts, never call content.

Are calls recorded?

Not today. Nothing is recorded, transcribed, or written to disk in the current build. When the last person leaves, the room is gone. Recording is on our internal build queue. Until it ships, use Google Meet or Zoom for calls that need to be archived.

Is it encrypted?

Calls run over TLS-encrypted WebRTC end-to-end between participants and our SFU. The SFU forwards packets, it does not decrypt media. Standard for self-hosted LiveKit deployments.

How many people can join one room?

Tested up to about 12 comfortably on the current hardware. When you cross 7 participants the layout auto-promotes to spotlight so faces stay readable. Larger groups work but expect more aggressive resolution scaling.

Does it work on a phone?

Yes, in Chrome, Safari, or Firefox on iOS and Android. No app to install. The layout shifts to portrait spotlight automatically: focused speaker on top, thumbnail strip on the bottom.

Why did Ripple build a meeting tool?

Two reasons. One, we wanted a Zoom replacement we owned end-to-end so client calls stay on our infrastructure. Two, we are a software studio, not a design shop, and shipping our own products in public is how we prove that. Ripple Meet sits next to GST Invoice Generator on /tools as evidence we build, not just consult.

What if I need calendar integration, dial-in, or admin controls?

Most of those are coming. Admin tooling for org-wide use is already shipping internally; dial-in bridges and recording are next on the build queue. Until they land publicly, Google Meet, Zoom, and Teams cover those gaps. The one thing Ripple Meet is not built to be: a 50+ person webinar platform. That is a different category of product, and Zoom keeps it.

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