Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control plane, single binary

Re:Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control pl... by DaiPlusPlus on Saturday May 02, 2026 @03:23PM (#47989550)

> but don't know exactly what that is or why it's useful.

I hate to say it, but the only applications I can think of can be best categorized as illegitimate, likely clandestine, distributed computing tasks.

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Re:Show HN: Pollen – distributed WASM runtime, no control pl... by onlyrealcuzzo on Saturday May 02, 2026 @03:54PM (#47989869)

I'm unaware of a better solution for local-first / offline-first software syncing (which IMO should be more common)!

They're also great for collaborative text editing or if you're building a distributed database (not many people, but I'm in an adjacent field).

At MASSIVE scale (inherently not many people), they're also good for things people take for granted, like counting (and other things people don't take for granted).

Again, it's not clear to me exactly where and why Pollen helps in any of these scenarios.

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