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PartyKit Blog
Company blog · blog.partykit.ioprogrammingweb
PartyKit Blog is the company blog at blog.partykit.io, writing about programming and web. Since 2023, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link the PartyKit blog for posts about the PartyKit real-time multiplayer platform, including its Cloudflare acquisition, pre-seed funding, and examples of building backends on it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-06-04
What Hacker News says?
I think you're reff'ing this article: https://blog.partykit.io/posts/using-vectorize-to-build-sear... Yeah, at the time I thought "who the hell thought this would be a good idea?"
Comment linking /posts/using-vectorize-to-build-search/
on “Local First, Forever”Submitted Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code as a story · 61 points
HN discussion> Is there any documentation anywhere for this? PartyKit is open source ( https://github.com/partykit/partykit/ , MIT), so you could create your own back-end. The Socket.IO folks appear to have done this: https://blog.partykit.io/posts/party-io-a-socket-io-backend-...
Comment linking /posts/party-io-a-socket-io-backend-for-partykit/
on “Cloudflare acquires PartyKit to allow developers to build real-time multi-user”Submitted PartyKit Is Joining Cloudflare as a story · 2 points
HN discussionas someone who likes working in a coffeeshop full of sf strivers, i love the vibe of these co-presence ideas. I have a technical question though... Has anyone figured out a nice way to do the partykit-like cursor stuff [0] that doesn't need a database/intermediary? It would be so nice to be able to ship a p2p presence-enabled static site without a dedicated server. Looks like partykit has a generous free tier but we…
Comment linking /posts/cursor-party
on “Ambient Co-Presence”Submitted Get multiplayer cursors on your own website as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere are some apps people have built, for inspiration: * Bloopernet Drum Machine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42177005 * Slack style team chat https://firehouse-chat.jchris.partykit.dev/ * PartKit Cloudflare https://blog.partykit.io/posts/fireproof-database-connector
Comment linking /posts/fireproof-database-connector
on “Show HN: Fireproof – local-first database with Git-like encrypted sync”Submitted PartyKit raises a pre-seed round of $2.5M from Sequoia, Remote First, and more as a story · 2 points
HN discussionPartyKit also did a blog post themselves with some more context: https://blog.partykit.io/posts/partykit-raises-a-pre-seed-ro...
Comment linking /posts/partykit-raises-a-pre-seed-round-2-5-m-from-sequoia-remote-first-and-more
on “Sequoia backs PartyKit to power real-time multiplayer collaboration for any app”Submitted PartyKit, Meet TinyBase as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted AI Chatbots for Edward De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Party.Server – New API for a programmable primitive as a story · 1 points
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