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Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent

https://peerweb.lol/
82•dtj1123•1h ago
https://github.com/omodaka9375/peerweb

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elbci•3w ago
I don't get it, I upload my files to your site, then I send my friends links to your site? How is this not a single point of failure?
dtj1123•3w ago
This isn't my site, nor do I have any opinions on the implementation here. I do however find the idea of serving web pages via torrent interesting.
elbci•3w ago
p2p storage as in torrent or IPFS or whatever is the part that we kinda' solved already. Serving/searching/addressing without the (centralized) DNS is still missing for a (urgently needed) p2p censorship resistant internet. Unfortunately this guy just uses some buzzwords to offer nothing new - why would I share links to that site instead of sharing torrent magnet links?
dtj1123•3w ago
You make a good point.
sroerick•1h ago
This is a great point.

One issue I've had with IPFS is that there's nothing baked into the protocol to maintain peer health, which really limits the ability to keep the swarm connected and healthy.

recursivegirth•58m ago
Thinking about this a little bit... could we use a blockchain ledger as an authoritative source for DNS records?

User's can publish their DNS + pub key to the append-only blockchain, signed with their private key.

Use a torrent file to connect to an initial tracker to download the blockchain.

Once the blockchain is downloaded, every computer would have a full copy of the DNS database and could use that for discoverability.

I have no experience with blockchains or building trackers, so maybe this is a dumb idea.

theendisney•23m ago
Its been tried/done but attracted the same audience of investors looking to make a quick buck as opposed to looking to actually make it work.

From what i've seen you need some minimum percentage of makeithappen-ers amoung those interested in a project.

It seems the guy running the extension just left. With minimum influence on the value.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/b-dns/

https://www.coinbase.com/en-nl/price/namecoin

soulofmischief•19m ago
Look into IPFS and ENS.
dang•1h ago
[sorry for the weird timestamps - the OP was submitted a while ago and I just re-upped it.]
logicallee•15m ago
did the test sites work for you when you tried it? because none worked for me, and for at least two other commenters here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46830158

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46830183

toomuchtodo•1h ago
IPFS [1] requires a gateway unfortunately (whether remote or running locally). If you can use content idents that are supported by web primitives, you get the distributed nature without IPFS scaffolding required. Content is versioned by hash, although I haven't looked to see if mutable torrents [2] [3] are used in this implementation. Searching via distributed hash tables for torrent metadata, cryptographically signed by the publisher, remains as a requirement imho.

Bittorrent, in my experience, "just works," whether you're relying on a torrent server or a magnet link to join a swarm and retrieve data. So, this is an interesting experiment in the IPFS, torrent, filecoin distributed content space.

[1] https://ipfs.tech/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29920271

[3] https://www.bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0046.html

turtleyacht•3w ago
Github: https://github.com/omodaka9375/peerweb
dang•1h ago
Thanks! we'll put that link in the toptext.
sroerick•1h ago
This is pretty interesting!

I think serving video is a particularly interesting use of Webtorrent. I think it would be good if you could add this as a front end to basically make sites DDOS proof. So you host like a regular site, but with a JS front end that hosts the site P2P the more traffic there is.

NewsaHackO•1h ago
I think it is very difficult (and dangerous to the host) to serve user-uploaded videos at scale, particularly from a moderation standpoint. The problem is even worse if everyone is anonymous. There is a reason YouTube has such a monopoly on personal video hosting. Maybe developments in AI moderation will make it more palatable in the future.
stanac•1h ago
There is PeerTube for video content.
xd1936•1h ago
Fun! I wish WebTorrent had caught on more. I've always thought it had a worthy place in the modern P2P conversation.

In 2020, I messed around with a PoC for what hosting and distributing Linux distros could look like using WebTorrent[1]. The protocol project as a whole has a lovely and brilliant design but has stayed mostly stagnant in recent years. There are only a couple of WebRTC-enabled torrent trackers that have remained active and stable.

1. https://github.com/leoherzog/LinuxExchange

cranberryturkey•1h ago
http://bittorrented.com
xd1936•36m ago
Oh wow
r14c•21m ago
I think the issue has generally been that web torrent doesn't work enough like the real thing to do its job properly. There are huge bit torrent based streaming media networks out there, illicit, sure, but its a proven technology. If browsers had real torrent clients we would be having a very different conversation imo

I don't remember the web torrent issue numbers off the top of my head, but there are a number of long standing issues that seem blocked on webrtc limitations.

j45•1h ago
In its own reimagined way from what’s possible in 2026, this could kick off a new kind of geocities.
mcjiggerlog•1h ago
This is cool - I actually worked on something similar way back in the day: https://github.com/tom-james-watson/wtp-ext. It avoided the need to have any kind of intermediary website entirely.

The cool thing was it worked at the browser level using experimental libdweb support, though that has unfortunately since been abandoned. You could literally load URLs like wtp://tomjwatson.com/blog directly in your browser.

kamranjon•1h ago
I think one of the values of (what appears to be) AI generated projects like this is that they can make me aware of the underlying technology that I might not have heard about - for example WebTorrent: https://webtorrent.io/faq

Pretty cool! Not sure what this offers over WebTorrent itself, but I was happy to learn about its existence.

BrouteMinou•1h ago
Nice, I clicked on the first demo, and I got stuck at connecting with peers.

I like the idea though.

dana321•1h ago
None of the demo sites work for me.

Probably needs more testing and debugging.

dcreater•1h ago
Good, important idea. Unfortunately bad, low effort vibe coded execution
gnarbarian•54m ago
love this. I've been working on something similar for months now

https://metaversejs.github.io/peercompute/

it's a gpgpu decentralized heterogeneous hpc p2p compute platform that runs in the browser

cyrusradfar•53m ago
OT: Can someone vibe-code Geocities back to life?
ipaddr•48m ago
That would take forever. If you can get the domain I'll hand code it in perl.
AreShoesFeet000•43m ago
give me the tokens.
800xl•32m ago
Check out neocities.org
SLWW•40m ago
I can't imagine that Peerweb has much in the way of stopping certain types of material from being uploaded.
logicallee•18m ago
I tried this, the functional "Functionality test page:" is stuck on "Loading peer web site... connecting to peers". I can't load any website from this.

https://imgur.com/gallery/loaidng-peerweb-site-uICLGhK

davidcollantes•9m ago
Yes, none work for me. They either don’t have peers, or the few ones are on a very slow network.
journal•13m ago
i wish stuff like this was more like double-click, agree, and use. they always make it complicated to where you're spending time trying to understand if you should continue to spend more time on this.
dpweb•3m ago
Useless if it takes > 5 sec. to load a page
rickcarlino•2m ago
Similar project I vibe coded a few weeks ago: "Gnutella/Limewire but WebRTC".

https://github.com/RickCarlino/hazelhop

It works, though probably needs some cleanup and security review before being used seriously (thus no running public instance).

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