tom-james-watson/wtp-ext
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Proof-of-concept distributed web powered by WebTorrents
4 mentions on Hacker News by 2 people: 1 story, 3 comments · first 2019-01-04 · latest 2026-01-30
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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…
comment by mcjiggerlog · 2026-01-30 · in Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent -
I _kind of_ built something like that a few years ago - https://github.com/tom-james-watson/wtp-ext The bad news is it required firefox nightly and honestly I'd be surprised if it even still works because Mozilla laid off the people who…
comment by mcjiggerlog · 2023-09-07 · in Show HN: Host a Website in the URL -
A while back I built out a proof-of-concept distributed web based on webtorrents - https://github.com/tom-james-watson/wtp-ext . Once this change makes its way into popular clients, it makes the idea a whole lot more viable. Unfortunately…
comment by mcjiggerlog · 2020-07-13 · in Libtorrent adds support for the WebTorrent protocol -
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POC Firefox extension to load web pages via torrentsstory by porlune · 2019-01-04 · 0 comments