Hi HN, I’m one of the devs behind StarDesk, a P2P-first remote desktop we’ve been building for ~1 year. We started this partly out of frustration: some popular RDP tools haven’t seen meaningful updates in a long time, and long-standing issues are often left unaddressed. As devs, we really dislike software that stagnates once it “works well enough”. StarDesk is our attempt to do it differently.

What we focus on: -P2P by default (relay as fallback)

-Low RTT + low jitter > chasing max bitrate

-Encoder / input path tuned for real-time interaction

-Modern E2EE (TLS/DTLS)

UX-wise, setup is intentionally boring: PC-to-PC connection in ~5 minutes, no special env, no weird network config. This alone saved us a lot of time during daily work.

StarDesk still early, WIP. Feature set is limited, but latency is already solid for real-time use. We plan to keep iterating fast and in public. And hope you can give us some ideas to bulid it stronger.

If you’ve built or used low-latency remote or streaming systems, I’d love to hear your thoughts！