Three friends.
One cosier burrow.
Squeak is a small team trying to build a better place for small teams to hang out. We're tired of voice apps that feel like work — so we made one that feels like home.
Our mission
Most chat apps are built for sprawling communities and battle-hardened gamers. That's fine — but it's not what most of us actually need. Most of us are three to thirty friends, classmates, ops teams, study groups, or game nights who want a quiet little place to talk.
Squeak is for those rooms. The kind where someone hops in to share their screen, someone else is half-listening while they cook, and the cheese appears unprovoked. No ads. No engagement gimmicks. No public discovery pressure. Just rats in a burrow.
What we believe
- Cosy beats cool. We'd rather feel like a kitchen counter than a stadium.
- Small is a feature. Squeak is tuned for groups of 3–50, not 30,000. Defaults reflect that.
- Privacy by default. We don't sell your messages, train models on them, or surface your conversations to anyone.
- Honest engineering. Built on Phoenix LiveView and PostgreSQL. Boring, well-understood tech that's easy to keep alive at 3am.
The founders
Builds the bones. Phoenix, OTP, WebRTC, the gnarly bits. Lives for the moment a flaky bug becomes a deterministic test.
Decides what to build and what to leave on the cutting-room floor. Talks to users more than the rest of us combined.
Shapes the feel of every pixel. The reason Squeak feels like a friend instead of a tool. Probably has cheese on him.
Under the Labrats Initiative
Squeak is the first product from the Labrats Initiative — a small studio the three of us run together to build software we actually want to use. We'll have more to share soon. Follow along on the socials linked in the footer (we're setting them up).
Say hi
Bug? Feature idea? Want to use Squeak with your team? Drop us a line at hello@squeak.im — Farvez reads everything.