Hyperbeam is a shared browsing site that lets you surf the web and watch TV shows and movies together with the people you care about while apart. Free to use (with optional Premium). No download necessary.
Hi everyone! I'm Philip, one of the co-founders of Hyperbeam! It's been an awesome journey turning our capstone project into a product that has been used by over a million people! 🤯
We're super excited to show Hyperbeam to the ProductHunt community—I hope you all enjoy using it with your close friends and family ❤️
I'll be sticking around as well to answer questions you have! 😊
Hi all!
I’m Declan, one of the co-founders of Hyperbeam. Hyperbeam is a shared browsing site that helps you nurture your relationships with friends, family, and romantic partners while apart by allowing you to surf the web and watch TV shows and movies together online.
My co-founders and I started Hyperbeam as our engineering capstone project at the University of Waterloo in Canada in late 2019, and have since bootstrapped it to over 100K monthly active users and counting!
We’re so excited to finally announce Hyperbeam on Product Hunt and we’re incredibly grateful to our amazing team, as well as our customers that have helped us get this far. We hope you all enjoy it and we’re happy to answer any questions!
Also, we're giving away one week of Hyperbeam Premium free to Product Hunters! You can claim the giveaway here :D
FAQWhat is your pricing model?
We use a freemium model that allows free users to browse for up to three hours at a time—after which you will need to wait 10 minutes until you can start a new session.
Premium costs $5/month and provides you with unlimited session length and a bunch of other perks such as animated profile pictures and custom invite links 😍
Our Product Hunt Launch Experience
You can read about our experience launching on Product Hunt in only 48 hours here:
Product Hunt: How to Avoid Disaster When Launching in a Hurry
@declan_goncalves This is really cool Declan, we create animated explainer videos for tech solutions like Hyperbeam, do you mind if I send you an email regarding video project together?
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This product is sick! Really solving a pain point I've experienced. Being an international student in America, I've experienced 3 long-term long-distance relationships. That said, if I had Hyperbeam, maybe the other two wouldn't have failed! :p
Looking forward to using this.
@kingalandydy Thank you so much King! My favorite part of building this is hearing how it is genuinely helping people solve a real, important problem in their life. I hope things go well for your future LDRs! :p
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I have a question: Does the history on the room get deleted once you power it off?
@sejun_shim Yep! All your browsing data gets wiped after the session ends 💥
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Exciting! The design of the website is sick. Very nice to have the option to open Hyperbeam in my browser and not have to download it. I went to check the privacy policy and it's very transparent, love it!
Great product! Used it to watch La La Land with a couple friends and unfortunately they hated it. The movie, not the product.
Congrats on the launch and hope it comes in handy for even more people!
@yayimahuman I'm sorry to hear that your friends hated La La Land, but glad to hear that it wasn't our fault 😄 Thanks!
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This's a great idea, executed well with awesome UI. I had tried with incognito browsers. I noticed ad-blocker was pre-installed with chromium browser(Nice Bonus!). It would be great if you guys can hide all the extensions, so user won't be able to disable it. Would certainly help with CPU/Memory. Also did you look for achieving the same with Brave browser. I bet Brave team would love to see this.
@mjrulesamrat Thank you! Right now incognito is disabled at the moment since it's not playing nice with the other technologies we're using. We can definitely look into hiding extensions: is there any reason why we want to prevent users from disabling these extensions?
Haven't considered Brave, that's certainly a possibility—we picked Chromium since most users are familiar with Chrome/Chromium 😊
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@scottyfillups hiding ads is very useful as it saves CPU/Memory usage for that page. You guys might also have considered those hard limits per session. For that reason only, it would save money if users can not disable some extensions.
And hey, congrats on the launch! :)
@mjrulesamrat I see! Thank you so much for your insight ❤️
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Hyperbeam(previously known as tutturu, still kinda miss that name) is literally the best site for remote groupwatch, not only because of what it offers right now, but the future potential as well.
This site started as a mean to fill the hole left by rabb.it but within a short span it has had such tremendous development that at this point almost everyone can agree that it has far surpassed its predecessor. Which is, thanks to its incredible devs and the relentless work they put behind Hyperbeam to constantly fix and improve, making it such a feature rich, user friendly site/app. Not only that, the service staffs are possibly the nicest and most responsive people i have ever met in this field.
Ive been using it everyday for more than a year now and I absolutely love this site and wish it nothing but succes in future.
@sadman_sakib6 Thank you for the kind words, Sadman :) Feedback like this is what makes working on Hyperbeam so worthwhile. We hope you continue to have a great experience!
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