Permissionless · server-less · anon
Where the people building peer-to-peer hang out.
A permissionless, server-less message board for anons who ship P2P — and the front door to the whole Pear ecosystem of real apps.
01 Who we are
We build peer-to-peer because the internet should work without asking permission.
No servers. No sign-ups. No account recovery. No companies to shut down. No terms of service. No one to complain to. Just keys, protocols, and code.
If centralized services are fragile, we work on the alternative. If your data lives in someone else's database, you don't own it. If your identity requires their approval, you don't have one. This isn't a rant — it's a building project.
Anonymity here isn't pretending. It's the default. Everyone on this network is a 32-byte public key. Whatever name you go by is the one you pick.
No permission needed
No gatekeeper sits between you and shipping. Publish a key, you're live.
You are a 32-byte key
Anonymity is the default, not a feature. The name is the one you choose.
Own your data
It lives on your device and syncs peer-to-peer. Nobody else's database.
00 Learn inside the app
A free P2P engineering school — shipped with the board, not this landing page.
37 lessons: Field Manual, Holepunch walkthroughs, Baby Rooms & Storyteller tracks, ecosystem scars, build write-ups, and app patterns. Same content in the board SPA (#/learn) and as static pages under /board/learn/.
Field Manual
7-day crash course — DHT, NAT, Noise, protocols, profiling.
Holepunch stack
Pear, Bare, Hypercore, Hyperbee, Hyperdrive, Hyperswarm, Autobase.
Rooms & patterns
Baby Rooms, Storyteller, outbox/gossip patterns we run in production.
Stack docs: pears.com · docs.pears.com
02 The board
A peer-to-peer hacker news that runs on no servers.
Every user is a key. Posts are signed in the client and sync peer-to-peer — same idea as peerit, shaped like Hacker News. Open it in the browser now; open the hyper:// drive in PearBrowser when you want the full swarm.
Hypercore-signed posts
Every post is cryptographically signed by its author's Hypercore. Tamper-evident by construction.
Reputation-weighted voting
Votes carry the weight of the keys behind them. Signal rises without a central moderator.
Browser + PearBrowser
Try the board in any browser, then graduate to PearBrowser for full hyper:// swarm replication.
Announcements tab
Bot-forwarded Pear Dev (Keet) notes and stack releases land under announcements — separate from human threads.
No servers, ever
Nodes find each other on Hyperswarm + HyperDHT. Nothing to host, nothing to seize.
Freedom-first culture
Share your build. Ship in the open. The vibe is anons who actually make things.
03 The ecosystem hub
PearBrowser Network catalog · version 3The curated front door to real P2P apps.
p2pbuilders doubles as the showcase. The catalog lists browser surfaces and companion apps, with browsable links and explicit migration status. HiveRelay supports availability; it never grants native install authority.
Pear POS
P2P point-of-sale with AI product recognition and self-custodial USDT / Bitcoin payments via the Tether WDK.
Pear Tickets
Offline-capable, signed-Hypercore event ticketing with Lightning, Cashu, and Stripe at checkout.
pearpaste / Paste
Local-first, end-to-end encrypted notes and clipboard sync across desktop and Expo mobile.
Pear Dealroom
Zero-infra, E2EE virtual data room for M&A with a signed, tamper-evident audit trail.
PearTube
Decentralized P2P video — iOS, Android, and macOS built from a single codebase.
The Board
This community's own terminal app — the permissionless P2P hacker news anchoring the catalog.
Early-stage & demo apps
04 The builder stack
One stack, consistent across every app.
The same primitives power the board and every app in the catalog — running on Pear or Bare, with HiveRelay as the optional always-on availability layer.
Data
- Hypercore
- Hyperbee
- Hyperdrive
Convergence
- Autobase · multi-writer
Discovery
- Hyperswarm
- HyperDHT
Runtime
- Pear
- Bare
Runtime and primitives ship from pears.com · docs.pears.com. HiveRelay is the optional always-on availability layer — pin a drive and it stays reachable 24/7 even when no other peers are online, without making it a server.
P2P on mobile, for real Pre-alpha
react-native-pear-end runs a real Pear backend — Hypercore, Hyperswarm, HyperDHT, and Autobase — inside React Native, with native UDP via UDX. No WebView, no WSS bridge. It is pre-alpha today.
05 Build & ship
From idea to listed app — no gatekeeper.
No app-store approval. No DNS. No server. Just keys and the network.
Publish as a drive
Ship browsable Hyperdrive content with a stable web link. Native releases require their own signed authority.
Pin to HiveRelay
Auto-pin for 24/7 availability so peers can fetch it any time.
List in the catalog
Add it to the PearBrowser Network catalog — it shows up in the browser's app store and the pages index.
06 Enter
Three ways in — same board, different ceilings.
Start in any modern browser. Graduate to PearBrowser when you want full Hyperswarm P2P. Native terminal delivery is a separate migration track and not required to hang out.
1 · Open the board in this browser
Instant on-ramp. Identity and signatures stay in the browser; this origin only delivers static code.
Enter p2pbuilders →2 · Full P2P in PearBrowser
Install PearBrowser, then open the live Hyperdrive. Peers replicate signed outboxes directly.
hyper://ac1977a75cc84b46af0af8bb559cd4ebbe10507eb0f51d863e289d09635f6d74/
3 · Build with us
Source, schema, and ship scripts live in the open repo — same stack as peerit.
GitHub →