Launch HN: Hyperbeam API (YC W22) – Multiplayer embeds of any website
Hi HN, we’re Philip, Amby, and Declan from Hyperbeam ( https://www.hyperbeam.dev ). Hyperbeam is an API that makes it easy for developers to embed real-time multiplayer capabilities into their web apps—including any other web app that you want to provide multiplayer access to. Building software to connect people in real time is hard. We experienced this in college when we built a “watch party” site for people to watch movies together ( https://hyperbeam.com ). Other watch party solutions were unreliable, so we spent two years building tech to allow friends to watch stuff together with ease. The key piece was a “multiplayer web browser”. By that we mean a Chromium instance that you embed inside your own web app (i.e. web browser inception) which is actually hosted on a server and streamed via WebRTC, and so can be shared and controlled by multiple people at the same ti
Why it failed
Hi HN, we’re Philip, Amby, and Declan from Hyperbeam ( https://www.hyperbeam.dev ). Hyperbeam is an API that makes it easy for developers to embed real-time multiplayer capabilities into their web apps—including any other web app that you want to provide multiplayer acc
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- declan_g
- Ended
- 2022
- Source
- hackernews