Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent
by dtj1123 on 1/30/2026, 8:40:00 PM
<a href="https://github.com/omodaka9375/peerweb" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/omodaka9375/peerweb</a>
Comments
by: xd1936
Fun! I wish WebTorrent had caught on more. I've always thought it had a worthy place in the modern P2P conversation.<p>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.<p>1. <a href="https://github.com/leoherzog/LinuxExchange" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/leoherzog/LinuxExchange</a>
1/30/2026, 8:54:40 PM
by: SLWW
I can't imagine that Peerweb has much in the way of stopping certain types of material from being uploaded.
1/30/2026, 9:58:58 PM
by: dcreater
Good, important idea. Unfortunately bad, low effort vibe coded execution
1/30/2026, 9:32:06 PM
by: journal
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.
1/30/2026, 10:25:24 PM
by: logicallee
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.<p><a href="https://imgur.com/gallery/loaidng-peerweb-site-uICLGhK" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/gallery/loaidng-peerweb-site-uICLGhK</a>
1/30/2026, 10:20:44 PM
by: sroerick
This is pretty interesting!<p>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.
1/30/2026, 8:48:42 PM
by: mcjiggerlog
This is cool - I actually worked on something similar way back in the day: <a href="https://github.com/tom-james-watson/wtp-ext" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/tom-james-watson/wtp-ext</a>. It avoided the need to have any kind of intermediary website entirely.<p>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.
1/30/2026, 9:13:01 PM
by: kamranjon
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: <a href="https://webtorrent.io/faq" rel="nofollow">https://webtorrent.io/faq</a><p>Pretty cool! Not sure what this offers over WebTorrent itself, but I was happy to learn about its existence.
1/30/2026, 9:26:30 PM
by: turtleyacht
Github: <a href="https://github.com/omodaka9375/peerweb" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/omodaka9375/peerweb</a>
1/3/2026, 11:46:03 PM
by: gnarbarian
love this. I've been working on something similar for months now<p><a href="https://metaversejs.github.io/peercompute/" rel="nofollow">https://metaversejs.github.io/peercompute/</a><p>it's a gpgpu decentralized heterogeneous hpc p2p compute platform that runs in the browser
1/30/2026, 9:44:13 PM
by: BrouteMinou
Nice, I clicked on the first demo, and I got stuck at connecting with peers.<p>I like the idea though.
1/30/2026, 9:29:27 PM
by: cyrusradfar
OT: Can someone vibe-code Geocities back to life?
1/30/2026, 9:46:06 PM
by: j45
In its own reimagined way from what’s possible in 2026, this could kick off a new kind of geocities.
1/30/2026, 9:00:03 PM
by: dana321
None of the demo sites work for me.<p>Probably needs more testing and debugging.
1/30/2026, 9:30:49 PM
by: elbci
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?
1/3/2026, 9:31:08 PM