Booth
Voice and screen sharing for friends, hosted on your PC
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Details
- External ID
- 1275244
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Booth
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 11, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- Windows, Open Source, Games
Description
Voice, text chat and screen sharing for a few friends on Windows. One friend hosts on their own PC, the others join with an invite code, and packets go straight to the host's PC, encrypted. No accounts, no cloud. Free and open source, built for low delay.
Enrichment
- Niche
- video chat and messaging apps
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- self-hosted voice and screen sharing app for friends
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Building a simple UI is easy, but high-performance peer-to-peer screen capture, low-latency audio encoding, and direct NAT traversal on Windows require low-level networking and systems programming.
What it would actually take: Requires native desktop technologies (C++, Rust, or Electron with C++ native addons) using DirectX/Desktop Duplication API for hardware-accelerated screen capture and Opus for voice encoding. The major hurdles are reliable P2P NAT punch-through without dedicated relay infrastructure and maintaining sub-50ms latency across varied network topologies.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 206 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #91 of 207 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 317 days after the earliest competitor.
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