diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 1937a147..207c6bed 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -113,3 +113,7 @@ required-features = ["server", "http1", "tokio"]
 [[example]]
 name = "server_graceful"
 required-features = ["tokio", "server-graceful", "server-auto"]
+
+[[example]]
+name = "single_threaded_server"
+required-features = ["server", "http1", "http2", "tokio"]
diff --git a/examples/single_threaded_server.rs b/examples/single_threaded_server.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..954a18a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/single_threaded_server.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+//! This example runs a server that responds to any request with "Hello, world!".
+//!
+//! Unlike its `server.rs` counter part, this server runs on a local single-threaded runtime,
+//! and uses a `!Send` executor. This pattern is useful for running hyper servers on asynchronous
+//! runtimes like gloomio or monoio.
+
+use bytes::Bytes;
+use http::{Request, Response, header::CONTENT_TYPE};
+use http_body_util::Full;
+use hyper::{body::Incoming, service::service_fn};
+use hyper_util::{
+    rt::{TokioIo, tokio::TokioLocalExecutor},
+    server::conn::auto::Builder,
+};
+use std::{convert::Infallible, error::Error};
+use tokio::net::TcpListener;
+
+/// Function from an incoming request to an outgoing response
+///
+/// This function gets turned into a [`hyper::service::Service`] later via
+/// [`service_fn`]. Instead of doing this, you could also write a type that
+/// implements [`hyper::service::Service`] directly and pass that in place of
+/// writing a function like this and calling [`service_fn`].
+async fn handle_request(_request: Request<Incoming>) -> Result<Response<Full<Bytes>>, Infallible> {
+    let response = Response::builder()
+        .header(CONTENT_TYPE, "text/plain")
+        .body(Full::new(Bytes::from("Hello, world!\n")))
+        .expect("values provided to the builder should be valid");
+
+    Ok(response)
+}
+
+#[tokio::main(flavor = "local")]
+async fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn Error + 'static>> {
+    let listen_addr = "127.0.0.1:8000";
+    let tcp_listener = TcpListener::bind(listen_addr).await?;
+    println!("listening on http://{listen_addr}");
+
+    loop {
+        let (stream, addr) = match tcp_listener.accept().await {
+            Ok(x) => x,
+            Err(e) => {
+                eprintln!("failed to accept connection: {e}");
+                continue;
+            }
+        };
+
+        let serve_connection = async move {
+            println!("handling a request from {addr}");
+
+            let result = Builder::new(TokioLocalExecutor::new())
+                .serve_connection(TokioIo::new(stream), service_fn(handle_request))
+                .await;
+
+            if let Err(e) = result {
+                eprintln!("error serving {addr}: {e}");
+            }
+
+            println!("handled a request from {addr}");
+        };
+
+        tokio::task::spawn_local(serve_connection);
+    }
+}