This week Jonathan Bennett and Doc Searls sit down with Mathias Buus Madsen and Paolo Ardoino of Holepunch, to talk about the Pear Runtime and the Keet serverless peer-to-peer platform. What happens when you take the technology built for BitTorrent, and apply it to a messaging app? What else does that allow you to do? And what’s the secret to keeping the service running even after the servers go down?

Holepunch (the company behind Pear Runtime):

Pear Runtime Website –

Launch Press Release – news/holepunch-unveils-groundbreaking-open-source-peer-to-peer-app-development-platform-pear-runtime/

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Documentation –

Keet –

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If you’d rather read along, here’s the transcript for this week’s episode.