Show HN: Web Highlighter – Turn Any Page into an Instant Forum

Hey HN!

Web browsing is currently a solitary activity. You may discover a cool blog, but, unlike a Google Doc, you can't leave a comment on it for everyone to see.

Web Highlighter fixes this. Go to webhighlighter.com/upload and and paste in (almost) any URL to get a real time, collaborative version of the web-page. Share it with people and let them comment away.

Features:

- View other people's comments & reply to them

- Write your own comments by highlighting text on the page and hitting the comment button

- See other people's mouse cursors and what text they've currently selected on the web-page

- Chat with people by pressing the "/" key

- Everything is real time. Comments, mouse cursors, replies all update instantly.

Update: I've noticed that a bunch of people have created posts, but no one has highlighted anything. Is the site hard to use / is it confusing how to create highlights?

This would be interesting if it could be run by and owned by the webmaster, to replace commenting. But due to privacy (think GDPR and CCPA) and copyright laws, it is imperative for the ownership of the comments to be with the website owner and not a third party service.