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API for shared embeddable web browsers
Emebedding third-party apps and websites can often be a nightmare due to incompatible platforms, security issues, and poor UX. Adding multiplayer functionality to these embeds makes this problem exponentially more difficult. Enter Hyperbeam—an API that lets you embed virtual computers anywhere, including web, mobile, VR, and even VSCode. You can then open any third-party website or application, synchronize audio and video flawlessly among multiple participants, and add multi-user control with just a few lines of code. Uses cases and customer segments include remote learning, virtual offices, online casinos, productivity, watch parties and more. We are three technical founders from the University of Waterloo, and worked as engineers at Facebook, Yahoo, and Lyft. Our technology is battle-tested–we currently stream over 1.25M hours of video per month across every continent. https://hyperbeam.com?ch=yc
Hyperbeam provides an API to embed virtual computers and remote desktop environments into your web applications, enabling multi-user control, synced audio/video, and embedded browsable experiences. It targets developers looking to include embeddable web browsers and virtual desktops in their apps without building from scratch.
Hyperbeam offers a Virtual Computer API that lets you embed remote desktop environments (Chrome, Android, Linux, emulators, etc.) directly into your web app. You can open third-party websites, synchronize audio and video across participants, and add multi-user control with a few lines of code. It provides a REST API for backend integration, an NPM package to load/control the virtual computer on the frontend, WebGL support for GPU-intensive workloads, session save states, access controls, kiosk mode, echo-cancelled audio, and worldwide servers for low latency. The product emphasizes no downloads or browser extensions and out-of-the-box support for embeds, with programmatic control to navigate URLs and run scripts in the embedded environment.
Who it’s for: Developers and product teams building web apps that require embeddable browser-like experiences, remote desktops, or shared online viewing/collaboration features.
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Philip is the co-founder and CEO of Hyperbeam, an API for embedding multiplayer web browsers. He studied software engineering at the University of Waterloo, where he met his co-founders Ambareesh Balaji and Declan Goncalves. For their capstone project, they created a watch party site called Tutturu.tv to watch anime with their friends. Tutturu.tv garnered 150K monthly active users and evolved into Hyperbeam. He has interned at numerous startups and big tech companies, including Lumina and Yahoo.
Ambareesh is the co-founder & CTO of Hyperbeam, an API for embedding multiplayer web browsers. He met his co-founders Philip and Declan at the University of Waterloo, where Hyperbeam started off as their engineering capstone project Tutturu.tv, a watch party site with 150K monthly active users. He has interned as a Software Engineer at startups and big tech companies alike, such as Globality and Facebook.
We make third-party embeds easy. Multiplayer supported out-of-the-box.
Hyperbeam provides an API to embed third-party websites or apps as virtual computers that can be opened in web, mobile, VR, or VSCode, synchronize audio/video across multiple participants, and support multi-user control with a few code lines. The product targets remote learning, virtual offices, productivity tools, metaverse, and related collaboration apps, offering a hosted backend to run and stream the embedded environments.
From the original launch (Aug 2022) — may be outdated.
