About mesibo

mesibo was born out of necessity when Yusuf, the founder of mesibo, was approached to create a scalable and high-availability real-time messaging solution for an app. Unfortunately, most platforms at that time — and even today — aren't designed for true scalability and high availability. Additionally, they charged exorbitant fees for their services. Most crucially, none offered the option of self-hosting — a feature central to mesibo's philosophy.

This concept came naturally to Yusuf, who had previously built a similar platform for BlackBerry as part of his earlier startup, TringMe — recognized for creating the first VoIP client for BlackBerry and pioneering Flash telephony.

Yusuf's background in networking is extensive. He was the architect of one of the first WiFi access points, deployed at Frankfurt Airport by Lucent and Apple. He was also part of the Smart Antenna team at Stanford and has extensive experience building highly scalable switches at Bell Labs. He contributed to the Linux kernel in its early days with his User Level Firewall (ULF) patch, widely used by ISPs in the early 2000s, and is a co-inventor of HTTP compression — used by billions of web users today.

mesibo was launched at the RISE conference in 2019 and demoed to startups at TechCrunch Disrupt the same year. As word spread about mesibo's capabilities, more companies began adopting it. With increased usage came a flood of feature requests, requiring more development and computing resources.

Even today, mesibo charges only a nominal fee to cover the costs of providing best-in-class services. Features such as video and voice calls, which other platforms charge a premium for, remain free on mesibo. We've released a significant amount of open-source code, with the ultimate aim of making mesibo completely open-source.

In addition, mesibo remains entirely free for educational institutions, students, research organizations, non-profits, climate tech startups, environmental conservation groups, and non-commercial apps aimed at social or ecological good.

Today, mesibo powers over 14,000 apps worldwide — from ambitious startups to Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, airports, public transportation systems, smart cities, banks, telemedicine providers, and hospitality services. We're proud to be the backbone of communication for over 100 million users globally.

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