
You don’t need VC money or a 50-person team to build your own Fireflies alternative. Here’s how to go from an idea to a working product in just 4 days.
Why Fireflies.ai Inspired 100 Clones
Fireflies.ai changed the game by automatically joining calls, transcribing conversations, and extracting key insights. It proved that AI notetakers are not just useful - they're essential.
But Fireflies serves a mass audience. That makes it bloated and generic for many niche use cases. You can build something leaner, faster, and more targeted.
Why Build Your Own Fireflies.ai Alternative?
- Control your stack, UI, and data
- Tailor it to a specific target group like HR, legal, sales, recruiting, or your own/internal team
- Avoid per-seat pricing or platform limitations
- Build with GDPR, HIPAA, or other compliances from day one
What Features Do You Actually Need?
Priority | Features |
---|---|
✅ Must-have | Meeting bot, transcription, summaries |
⚙️ Nice-to-have | Speaker recognition, sentiment analysis, … |
🌱 Later | General analytics, CRM sync, … |
What We Will Use To Build Your Notetaker
- Skribby to handle bots, transcription, and recording, so you don't need to build complex infrastructure
- OpenAI to transform raw transcripts into valuable summaries and action items
- Lovable / v0 / Bolt to power your frontend without React complexity
- Supabase to manage backend, auth, and data storage in one platform
- (Optional) Stripe to monetize your custom-built notetaker
Now: let’s get started!
4-Day Build Plan
Day 1: Meeting Bot + Storage
- Sign up at Skribby
- Call the Create Bot API to join a meeting:
await fetch('https://platform.skribby.io/v1/meeting/join', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
Authorization: `Bearer YOUR_API_KEY`,
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
},
body: JSON.stringify({
meeting_url: 'https://meet.google.com/opn-yxeq-123',
service: 'gmeet',
bot_name: 'Skribby',
meeting_id: '0193225a-35fb-72f3-a21e-3415c8la8db8',
webhook_url: 'https://your-api.com/webhook/transcript-complete',
}),
});
- Set up a Webhook and store the transcript in Supabase:
// Your custom API endpoint listening for webhooks
app.post('/webhook/transcript-complete', async (req, res) => {
const { meetingId, transcriptUrl } = req.body;
const transcript = await fetchTranscriptFromUrl(transcriptUrl);
await supabase.from('transcripts').insert({
meeting_id: meetingId,
content: transcript,
created_at: new Date()
});
res.status(200).send('Stored');
});
It’s that simple!
Day 2: Add Summarization
- Create an account at OpenAI and get an authentication token
- Get OpenAI’s SDK
- Use any model (eg. in this case
gpt-5
) to summarize the transcript:
async function generateSummary(transcriptText) {
const response = await openai.createCompletion({
model: "gpt-4o-mini",
prompt: `Summarize this meeting transcript:\\n\\n${transcriptText}`,
max_tokens: 1000
});
return response.choices[0].message.content;
}
Save these summaries in your DB, etc. You’re good to go!
Day 3: Build the Frontend
- Use Bolt or v0 to build the UI
- Create a meeting history/overview dashboard, transcript viewer, summary page, …
- Add Supabase Auth for user login/registration
Day 4: Launch
- Build a marketing site using Lovable
- Deploy your SaaS and marketing website for free to services like Vercel or Netlify
- Share on Product Hunt, Reddit, LinkedIn, …
Use Cases: Go Vertical, Not Broad
- Recruiting - Interview meeting transcripts, ATS summaries
- Sales - Meeting notes + action items to CRM
- Legal - Timestamped call meeting records for compliance
- Healthcare - Transcripts & summary of appointment meetings
- Research - Auto-summarized user interviews
These are underserved by horizontal tools like Fireflies.
Why Skribby Is Your Unfair Advantage
Without Skribby, you'd need to build your own:
- Zoom/Meet/Teams meeting bot infrastructure
- Speech-to-text (transcription) layer
With Skribby, you simply:
- Join any meeting
- Get transcript + audio
- Handle everything via webhooks (and also possibly real-time!)
Have fun building! 👋 🧑💻