I built PeerServer with a friend in 8 weeks last spring for our Stanford senior project -- it's a pleasant surprise to see it on HN six months later.<p>We are planning to open-source the code and create a brief video showing off its abilities this weekend, as well as fix some of the issues you may be having in more recent versions of Firefox. The WebRTC DataChannel spec has been changing, so it works in FF 22 (beta at the time we developed it) but breaks for some later versions where the API changed. It'll be fixed over the weekend for FF and the latest Chrome -- sorry for the issues some are having now.<p>Thanks for the great comments and enthusiasm!
Won't connect for me (Fx 25, Linux). Blank white screen and this in the console:<p>TypeError: Not enough arguments to mozRTCPeerConnection.createOffer. @ <a href="http://www.peer-server.com/shared/lib/peer.min.js:1" rel="nofollow">http://www.peer-server.com/shared/lib/peer.min.js:1</a>
Quite interesting idea.<p>On this we could have a distributed web server that scales as new ppl load the (site??). I can see this hurting akamai. People now have 10Mbps-20Mpbs up on DSL and cable; even before widespread FTOH this could become potent. It would also simplify a Tor alternative implementation, would'nt it?
Congrats, I have been waiting to see someone build something like this for a while. This is truly a glimpse into the future :)<p>Edit: I should have vetted this a little harder before commenting. I recognized the idea immediately, but the implementation here is rather lacking. Still, props for pushing the envelop.