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Hey HN! Plane came from our desire to build tools that have the low friction to use of running in the browser, but use more memory and compute than the browser
by paulgb 4y ago
Hey HN!
Plane came from our desire to build tools that have the low friction to use of running in the browser, but use more memory and compute than the browser will allocate. The basic idea is to run a remote background process, connect to it over WebSocket, and stream data.
This ends up being a surprisingly useful primitive to have, and it's been used to:
- Pixel-stream X11 applications to the browser over WebRTC[1]
- Run IDEs and notebooks
- Power Figma-style realtime collaboration backends (including https://rayon.design https://rayon.design).
Here's a direct link to our repo: https://github.com/drifting-in-space/plane https://github.com/drifting-in-space/plane and docs: https://plane.dev/ https://plane.dev/
[1] https://twitter.com/drifting_corp/status/1552773567649091584 https://twitter.com/drifting_corp/status/1552773567649091584
- ushakov 4y agoHey Paul, congrats on your HN launch!
- looks_cool123 4y agoThis stuff is great. The sooner you can figure out Windows, the better.
- intelVISA 4y agoBig grats Paul, love innovation in this space and fully agree w/ your design decisions re: K8s.