Peerdium
Infrastructure
peer-to-peer publishing
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
3 positive, 19 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 8 critical, out of 30 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.
Performance: 0 for, 5 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Clean minimal design and short editor code
From 1 comment
Congrats! This is a really nice project. I'm amazed that the editor is just 200 lines of code and i like the minimalistic design. Assuming the number in the right side are the…
doomjunky on HN
Interesting P2P idea
From 2 comments
this is very, very cool
colobas on HNThis would be interesting if combined with something like BAT or AdSense or Coinhive to earn revenue from viewing then use that revenue to pay for seeding via something like Sia/…
hndamien on HN
Objections
Posts disappear unless someone keeps the tab open
From 3 comments
"This means to open and read a post in Peerdium at-least 1 other person should have the tab opened of the post" Are you running a server hosting 1 instance of each document so…
djangowithme on HNSo if the only person reading the article closes it, is the article lost? Since there is no one else to retrieve the data from for future readers.
slackoverflower on HNThe concern is that someone has to have a post open before I can access it. How does this scale? (Oh, you build it for fun. So no problem.)
xkbd on HN
Pages fail to load for many users behind NAT, proxies or blocked ports
From 3 comments
Doesn't seem to work for me. Perhaps because I'm behind a corporate proxy? Maybe I'll try when I get home.
okonomiyaki3000 on HNPage stalls at "Loading from peers......." Oh the irony.
unicornporn on HNDoesn't seem to load on ios + safari
snissn on HN
Name sounds offensive in Russian
From 1 comment
ehh... what a naming. For russian speaking people it strongly co-sounds with "fart". ;) Please consider to rename it if platform targets worldwide.
stunpix on HN
Requests
Add RemoteStorage export
From 1 comment
One feature you might want to consider is adding support for RemoteStorage [0] to allow people to export a story to a data provider of their choice, so that they can easily…
Vinnl on HN
Show count of peers seeding a post
From 1 comment
Congrats! This is a really nice project. I'm amazed that the editor is just 200 lines of code and i like the minimalistic design. Assuming the number in the right side are the…
doomjunky on HN
Monetization via ads or micropayments
From 1 comment
This would be interesting if combined with something like BAT or AdSense or Coinhive to earn revenue from viewing then use that revenue to pay for seeding via something like Sia/…
hndamien on HN
Questions
Why WebTorrent instead of IPFS
From 1 comment
This is pretty nifty! Out of curiosity, why did you choose WebTorrent over, say, IPFS? I considered doing something similar using their JavaScript client[0]. [0]:…
colatkinson on HN
How does it work with search engines and takedowns
From 2 comments
This is neat. How does it work with search engines? Just lots of 404s once articles 'disappear'?
bmpafa on HNSorry for the late reply. Since the ID is not a # variable in the URLs, it is passed to the web server hosting the content, meaning even if the data/metadata is not stored on any…
beardog on HN
Alternatives named
IPFS
From 2 comments
This is pretty nifty! Out of curiosity, why did you choose WebTorrent over, say, IPFS? I considered doing something similar using their JavaScript client[0]. [0]:…
colatkinson on HNMaybe check out IPFS while you are at it.
hndamien on HN
Blockstack
From 1 comment
You should also check out blockstack, offers similar storage functionality (the user choose where to store the data) and has easy to use js libs
ranfdev on HN
GUN
From 1 comment
Nice app! Great work, you deserve all the HN attention. :D How were you able to make WebTorrent work reliably? I was trying to write a WebRTC adapter for…
marknadal on HN