Before Vibe Coding and Agentic Development were trending, I built my own version of Google Meet from scratch.

This wasn’t a simple clone. It was a real-time WebRTC application connecting users, handling signaling, streaming audio and video. Eventually integrating live transcription with a small twist.

In this talk, I'll share:
- Why I decided to build it
- The architecture decisions behing a real-time system
- WebRTC pain points and unexpected complexity
- Why "local first" turned out to be much harder than expected

This is a story about learning by building something slightly unreasonable, and why ambitious side projects are one of the fastest ways to level up as an engineer.