{"slug": "show-hn-host-a-site-content-or-stream-from-a-browser-tab-served-over-webrtc", "title": "Show HN: Host a site, content, or stream from a browser tab, served over WebRTC", "summary": "A developer released fmrl, an open-source project that hosts a website, content or stream from an open browser tab and serves it over WebRTC connections, falling back to a Cloudflare TURN server when WebRTC is unavailable. The project, posted to Hacker News as a Show HN with 1 point and 0 comments, is published at fmrl.live with source code on GitLab at gitlab.com/croatoa/fmrl. The developer said the aim is autonomy rather than privacy and that this was their first time using AI in coding, specifically LLM Claude Code.", "body_md": "Site URL: [https://fmrl.live](https://fmrl.live)\n\nRepository URL: [https://gitlab.com/croatoa/fmrl](https://gitlab.com/croatoa/fmrl)\n\nThis project allows you to host a website, content, and streaming from an open browser window. It gets served over WebRTC connections (or a Cloudfare turn server if that's not available).\n\nThis is just a start. Any suggestions or feedback to improve usability, feature requests, etc is super welcome.\n\nThis is a project I've had in mind for a while. I wanted to participate in building for a decentralized web, so I thought it would be cool if people could run a social network kind of page from their own machine, and allow them to diffuse content over a peer to peer net, independent of the typical social media giants.\n\nWhile this iteration is not quite that, it's a start.\n\nWhile the UI probably makes this super obvious, this is the first time I've used AI in coding (LLM, Claude Code). It really is some impressive machinery.\n\nThe goal isn't privacy, but rather autonomy, more or less. I know there are real limitations (like a host user closing their browser) but I feel like the idea is at least slightly novel (probably because its a mediocre idea lol).. but it'll be interesting to see how it evolves.\n\nIf you made it this far, thanks for the read. Hope you have a pleasant day.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50489193](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50489193)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-host-a-site-content-or-stream-from-a-browser-tab-served-over-webrtc", "canonical_source": "https://fmrl.live", "published_at": "2026-11-13 20:29:03+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-13 20:50:28.268107+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["fmrl", "WebRTC", "Cloudflare", "GitLab", "Hacker News", "Claude Code"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-host-a-site-content-or-stream-from-a-browser-tab-served-over-webrtc", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-host-a-site-content-or-stream-from-a-browser-tab-served-over-webrtc.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-host-a-site-content-or-stream-from-a-browser-tab-served-over-webrtc.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-host-a-site-content-or-stream-from-a-browser-tab-served-over-webrtc.jsonld"}}