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I built an ephemeral P2P chat with WebRTC, without servers

https://ephemchat.vercel.app/
THis is not without servers, you still use a signaling server for TURN.

If you want true serverless you need a side channel to copy the offer/response, e.g. tell the user's to copy paste them as base64 thorugh whatsapp manually or something (https://github.com/pirate/webrtcchat).

I wrote a webrtc chat prototype once that used a blockchain contract for the offer/response.

It was cool but a little slow and I moved onto other side projects.

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- does the room vanish after the last user exits? Seems like it?

- can the room code be tacked on to the url/slug?

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