cursor party
Hi HN, I challenged myself to build a multiplayer game in just 1 hour. My goal was to experience the distributed processing capabilities of Elixir and Phoenix LiveView firsthand by creating a simple web app. It allows everyone to see each other's cursors in real-time and fight a boss together. This is currently a beta version, and I plan to ship new features every week. It's deployed on Koyeb. I'd love to hear your feedback on the performance!
cursor party launched on May 8, 2026 with 79 votes, #475 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
What it does
CursorParty is a Chrome extension that reveals the invisible: everyone else reading the same Wikipedia article, documentation page, or blog post as you right now. Unlike Slack/Discord (heavy, invite-only) or Twitter/X (async, performative), CursorParty is ambient and lightweight — the internet as a shared space rather than a broadcast platform.
CursorParty is a Chrome extension that turns public webpages into lightweight multiplayer rooms with live cursors, ephemeral chat, Ghost Mode, and cosmetic cursor identity.
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