Pure PHP server, from yesterday, now supports sockets and rooms.
Details
- External ID
- 48999538
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Pure PHP server, from yesterday, now supports sockets and rooms.
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 21, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2873357228195938
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- censorship circumvention and network utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- php server with socket and room support
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Writing a basic non-blocking socket server in PHP using native `stream_socket_server` or `reactphp`/`swoole` with room management is straightforward and a classic vibe-coding task.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 124 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #92 of 125 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 263 days after the earliest competitor.
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- We served 5k dynamic websites from a 2-vCPU, 4 GB VPS · hn · 2026-09-10 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- EchoRelay · hn · 2026-06-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- PhpEZ · hn · 2026-08-29 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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