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simple-peer
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feross / simple-peer

simple-peer

📡 Simple WebRTC video, voice, and data channels

15Distinct people
18Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
7.8KGitHub stars
REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

📡 Simple WebRTC video, voice, and data channels

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Where it is used

  • Speakrandom — Speakrandom - Voice-chat social network using simple-peer to create audio conferences! Source
  • Deskreen — Deskreen - A desktop app that helps you to turn any device into a secondary screen for your computer. It uses simple-peer for sharing entire computer screen to any device with a web browser. Source

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 5:03:38 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year18 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-07-15 17:27:10 UTC to 2022-11-29 20:27:08 UTC.

02462015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 2 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC321
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

2 sources
I have some repos that use WebRTC to connect clients, I created this experiment where I will try to send the needed ice data via audio, to connect peers: https://github.com/AquiGorka/webrtc-connect-experiments On the games side, I am coding a web version of Kuhhandel (a german boardgame) where people play using their smartphones: https://github.com/AquiGorka/kuhhandel Here I used webrtc data channels to send a smartphone's gyroscope data to a webapp that renders a virtual puppet. The puppets control bar mimics the smartphone's orientation: https://github.com/AquiGorka/puppets For really simple connections you can use this: https://github.com/feross/simple-peer
In Show HN: WebRTC Data Channels Example

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