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Do not build this. Everybody already has it installed, and that is the product.

A video meeting is worth nothing if the other person cannot join. The value here is that a link opens for a client, a supplier or a relative with no explanation, on whatever device they own — and that is a network position, not software.

THE COST YOU WOULD TAKE ON
- A large share of users sit behind networks where a direct connection cannot be made. Without relay servers their call simply fails, silently, for them
- A selective forwarding server sends every participant's stream to everybody else, so a call of ten is far more than five times a call of two
- Both are bandwidth, and bandwidth is a bill that scales with use

WHEN TO KEEP PAYING
- Meetings with people outside your organisation, which is nearly all of them

WHEN TO BUILD SOMETHING
- **Meetings embedded in your own product**, where the branding and the flow are yours. That is a real project and it is covered under Jitsi and Whereby elsewhere in this catalogue
- Internal-only calls on a network you control, where Jitsi on one machine is genuinely enough

WHAT TO DO INSTEAD, WHICH IS WORTH MORE THAN THE SUBSCRIPTION
- **Check the free tier.** Forty minutes is longer than most meetings should be, and a great many paid accounts exist to avoid a limit nobody was near
- **Audit the seats.** This is priced per host, and people who only ever join do not need one
- **Cut the meetings.** The asynchronous standup is under Geekbot elsewhere in this catalogue, and a recorded walkthrough is under Loom. Both replace a recurring meeting outright, which saves more than any licence

AND THE ONE THING TO BUILD
A recording archive of your own: pull the recordings out on a schedule, transcribe them locally, index the text with FTS5, and keep them somewhere you control with a stated retention. Recordings of colleagues talking are sensitive, they accumulate quietly, and leaving them in a vendor's storage with a default retention is a decision nobody took deliberately.

THE ONE-LINE VERSION
Keep it, check the free tier, and audit the seats. Then spend the effort on having fewer meetings rather than cheaper ones.