diff --git a/examples/Cargo.toml b/examples/Cargo.toml
index c25fd954e0..28b14ce672 100644
--- a/examples/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.9", features = ["env-filter"] }
 serde_json = "1.0.68"
 serde = { version = "1.0.140", features = ["derive"] }
 mime = "0.3.16"
+open = "5.0.1"
 futures-util = "0.3.21"
 tokio-stream = "0.1.8"
 prost = "0.12.0"
diff --git a/examples/poem/local-server-with-browser/Cargo.toml b/examples/poem/local-server-with-browser/Cargo.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b0737e34c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/poem/local-server-with-browser/Cargo.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+[package]
+name = "local-server-with-browser"
+version.workspace = true
+edition.workspace = true
+publish.workspace = true
+
+[dependencies]
+open.workspace = true
+poem.workspace = true
+tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros"] }
+tracing-subscriber.workspace = true
diff --git a/examples/poem/local-server-with-browser/src/main.rs b/examples/poem/local-server-with-browser/src/main.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0846c14c59
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/poem/local-server-with-browser/src/main.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+use poem::{
+    handler,
+    listener::{Listener, TcpListener},
+    Result, Route, Server,
+};
+
+#[handler]
+fn hello() -> String {
+    "Hello from poem!\n".to_string()
+}
+
+#[tokio::main]
+async fn main() -> Result<(), std::io::Error> {
+    let app = Route::new().at("/", poem::get(hello));
+    if std::env::var_os("RUST_LOG").is_none() {
+        std::env::set_var("RUST_LOG", "poem=debug");
+    }
+    tracing_subscriber::fmt::init();
+
+    // To test port assignment, run two instances of this example at once.
+    //
+    // For ports <1024, running with administrator priveleges would be needed on
+    // Unix. For port 0, the OS would assign a port and we'd need to find out
+    // what that port's number is.
+    let (min_port, max_port) = (8080, 8085);
+    // Using 127.0.0.1 instead of 0.0.0.0 for security; a local server should
+    // not, generally, be visible from the network.
+    let hostname = "127.0.0.1";
+    let mut port = min_port;
+    let mut error = None;
+    let acceptor = loop {
+        if port > max_port {
+            return Err(error.unwrap());
+        }
+        let listener = TcpListener::bind(format!("{hostname}:{}", port));
+        match listener.into_acceptor().await {
+            Ok(a) => break a,
+            Err(err) => {
+                // Most likely, another application is bound to this port.
+                eprintln!("Couldn't bind to port {port}.");
+                error = Some(err)
+            }
+        };
+        port += 1;
+    };
+
+    // Now that the acceptor exists, the browser should be able to connect IIUC.
+    let http_address = format!("http://{hostname}:{port}/");
+    eprintln!("Listening at {http_address}.");
+    eprint!("Trying to launch a browser at {http_address}...");
+    match open::that(&http_address) {
+        Ok(_) => eprintln!(" Success!"),
+        Err(err) => eprintln!("\nFailed to launch a browser: {err}"),
+    }
+
+    Server::new_with_acceptor(acceptor).run(app).await?;
+    Ok(())
+}