Overview

AI-powered meetings without the hassle

Yapper is a real early-stage product I am working on with a founder: a browser-based video-calling app for smaller communities that need useful meeting tools without the weight of an enterprise suite.

Yapper landing page with a meeting mockup and pixel mascot.
Landing page concept for Yapper.

Product

A room people can join quickly, with AI already in the flow

The core premise is simple: someone creates a room, invites others, and gets AI support inside the call without forcing the group through account setup or complex meeting software.

Yapper meeting interface showing video tiles, chat, AI panel, and toolbar controls.
Meeting page concept with the AI agent embedded into the call.

Design challenge

Make the assistant feel present without making the meeting about AI

Yappa needed enough presence to be understood, but not so much that the call became about managing an AI assistant.

Present

The assistant stays visible inside the room instead of living in a separate workspace.

Quiet

Status and motion are intentionally small so the people in the call stay central.

Useful

Files, transcript, and prompts sit close to the conversation when they are needed.

In-chat support

Small signals, not another dashboard

The assistant communicates through chat presence, lightweight controls, and short motion states that explain what it is doing without pulling users away from the meeting.

Animated Yapper meeting interaction showing the AI assistant in the call interface.
Interaction pass showing Yappa inside the meeting interface.

Overlay helper

Keeping AI tools close to the conversation

Chat, transcript, file access, and AI prompts stay attached to the meeting surface so Yappa feels like part of the room.

Animated Yapper interface showing AI tooling and meeting interactions.
AI tooling interaction concept inside the meeting interface.

Motion states

A small mascot system for meeting feedback

Loading state: running

Used when Yappa is loading, searching, or preparing something for the room.

Pixel Yappa mascot running animation used for loading states.
Running GIF for loading and searching states.

Idle state: tail wagging

Used when Yappa is present but idle, keeping the assistant visible without implying urgency.

Pixel Yappa mascot tail-wagging animation used for idle states.
Tail-wagging GIF for idle states.

AI surfacing state: pop-up

Used when Yappa is about to surface a response, file, or useful meeting context.

Pixel Yappa mascot pop-up animation used when the AI agent surfaces information.
Pop-up GIF for AI surfacing moments.

Concept testing

A real product, still testing the core interaction bet

Yapper is being built with a founder, but this part of the work is still in concept testing. The current question is whether people understand the value of an AI meeting assistant inside the call itself, and whether Yappa's status, motion, and chat behaviours make the assistant feel helpful without becoming distracting.

The next validation step is to put the prototype in front of small community groups and watch whether they use the assistant naturally during a messy conversation, not just in a clean demo flow.