https://freesbe.net/blog/ How Freesbe works and why we built it the way we did. en https://freesbe.net/blog/webhook-urls-are-public/ https://freesbe.net/blog/webhook-urls-are-public/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The rules behind Freesbe's webhook URLs - nothing readable about the customer, a path that matches the settings page, old URLs that work forever - and why incoming webhooks accept Slack and Teams payloads. https://freesbe.net/blog/ci-on-a-macbook/ https://freesbe.net/blog/ci-on-a-macbook/ Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT How a day of 266 CI runs pushed Freesbe onto self-hosted build machines - a laptop and a small virtual machine - what stayed on hosted runners, and the outage that taught us about idle timeouts. https://freesbe.net/blog/english-as-the-key/ https://freesbe.net/blog/english-as-the-key/ Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT How Freesbe is translated into 25 languages, including right-to-left Arabic and Hebrew, why our translation catalogs are keyed by the English sentence instead of an id, and what right-to-left support really takes. https://freesbe.net/blog/measuring-call-quality/ https://freesbe.net/blog/measuring-call-quality/ Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT How every Freesbe call measures its own audio quality from WebRTC stats, what counts as a poor call, and how a weak connection automatically puts voices ahead of video. https://freesbe.net/blog/search-inside-words/ https://freesbe.net/blog/search-inside-words/ Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT How Freesbe added substring search with a SQLite trigram index next to the word index, why it matters for many languages, and the ordering mistake that broke our deploys. https://freesbe.net/blog/screenshots-are-generated/ https://freesbe.net/blog/screenshots-are-generated/ Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT How every screenshot in Freesbe's help center is produced by a script from a made-up demo company, retaken once a day, and why we stopped taking screenshots by hand. https://freesbe.net/blog/encrypted-local-cache/ https://freesbe.net/blog/encrypted-local-cache/ Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT How Freesbe keeps a local copy of your messages so the app opens instantly, why that copy is encrypted with a key held only in memory, and the trade-off we accepted. https://freesbe.net/blog/many-ai-agents-one-repo/ https://freesbe.net/blog/many-ai-agents-one-repo/ Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT How Freesbe runs several AI coding agents in parallel on one codebase, why merge conflicts became the bottleneck, and the merge drivers and rules that fixed it. https://freesbe.net/blog/one-stale-track/ https://freesbe.net/blog/one-stale-track/ Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT A postmortem of a Freesbe meeting where some people couldn't hear others, traced to a single leftover audio track and a gateway that refused whole batches, and what we changed. https://freesbe.net/blog/recording-in-the-browser/ https://freesbe.net/blog/recording-in-the-browser/ Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why Freesbe records huddles and meetings in the recorder's own app instead of on a server, what it costs each way, and the trade-offs we accepted. https://freesbe.net/blog/ai-agents-without-the-keys/ https://freesbe.net/blog/ai-agents-without-the-keys/ Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT How Freesbe connects Claude, ChatGPT, code editors and other AI agents with the Model Context Protocol and OAuth, so each agent gets only what a person allowed and admins can see everything it did. https://freesbe.net/blog/call-servers-same-api/ https://freesbe.net/blog/call-servers-same-api/ Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why Freesbe's own video call server answers the exact same API as the managed media service we started on, so moving a call between them changes nothing in the apps. https://freesbe.net/blog/one-database-per-customer/ https://freesbe.net/blog/one-database-per-customer/ Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Why Freesbe keeps each workspace's messages in a small database of its own instead of one big shared one, how we moved live workspaces over, and what it gave us for free. https://freesbe.net/blog/advanced-ai-noise-cancellation/ https://freesbe.net/blog/advanced-ai-noise-cancellation/ Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT How Freesbe's AI noise cancellation for calls works, how it differs from active noise cancellation in headphones, and why it runs on your own computer.