We build the parts most companies rent: our own mail server, our own video server, our own workspace. We believe our country needs that foundation more than anything, and Roomie is our small step towards it.
Built by Roomie Technology Pvt. Ltd., registered in Kathmandu since 2020, when it started as a video platform. One workspace for the work a team does every day, with its own mail server, its own video server, and AI teammates that assist rather than replace.
Nepal talks a great deal about becoming an IT hub. We think the basics are missing underneath that ambition. A country can have a large industry built on rented ground and still own none of it.
So: a mail server we can run ourselves. Meeting rooms that do not route through someone else's platform. A workspace that keeps working when the thing it depended on is withdrawn, repriced, or switched off for reasons nobody here was consulted about.
We are not there, and we are not going to pretend a company this size has solved technological independence for anyone. But the first steps are buildable now, by us, at a price teams here can actually pay, and that seemed a better use of the time than building another thing on top of someone else's.
These dates come from our own code history rather than from memory, because a timeline is the easiest thing on a website to round in your own favour.
Roomie Technology is registered in Kathmandu in July. Everybody suddenly needs to meet over video, and the work starts on building the video server ourselves rather than renting someone else's.
Video calls ship in May, team chat in September. Nearly everything since has been built on those two.
Collaboration grows around the calls instead of beside them, and the workspace starts to look like one product.
Call quality, Windows and Mac apps, security certificates, and a great deal of unglamorous interface work. Nothing worth announcing, every single year.
Five years after the infrastructure it would run on. That order is deliberate: an assistant is only worth as much as the work it can reach.
In April, a way to let Claude or ChatGPT work inside the workspace. The wiki in July. The CRM and AI teammates in September. By a distance the busiest year so far.
The test we hold ourselves to: can the workspace keep running on infrastructure you control, with no company able to switch it off from outside?
Email on your own domain is not a mailbox resold from someone else's platform. A self-hosted workspace keeps its mail inside the building too.
We wrote the server that sits in the middle of a call, starting in 2020, and huddles still run on it. Nobody else is in the middle of your call.
Not a cut-down edition. The same product, with your database and your files, under your domain. We do the installation and set up the monitoring with you.
The AI can point at any endpoint that speaks the OpenAI API: ours, a cloud deployment under your own agreement, or a server of your own. Running it in your own building is the part we have not finished.
A direction we are walking in, not a box we have ticked. The detail is on self-hosting and how the data is held.
Roomie is built in Kathmandu and used by teams in Nepal, Australia, the United States and Thailand, for project management, sales, company email and customer support. It is a small group of companies, and the paying customers are recent. Building here gives us a different cost base from the companies we compete with, and we pass some of that on: $2 a user is what we think a serious workspace can cost a small team, and it is a real margin rather than a loss we intend to make back later.
If you need to check us before buying, the entity details are here and the supporting documents are a request away. Write to us and you will get a person.
Free for three people, with no trial clock. Buying for an organisation? We will send the registration and tax documents, and talk through running it on your own servers.
Also worth reading: security and migration, self-hosting, pricing and what we do with your data.