Layer turns your browser into a collaborative workspace. Every website becomes a space for you and your team to collaborate; share ideas, feedback, notes, and explore the internet together in real-time. Imagine Figma’s collaboration but now across the browser!
Thanks @kevin for hunting us!
Hellooo product hunt! 👋
I’m Tarek, co-founder of Layer. This is our first PH launch and we’re super excited to share with you what we’ve been working on.
🤓 First why are we building Layer?
@samabi and I have been building software for many years now and realised that the way teams currently collaborate is mildly insane. Work and collaboration are two complete separate processes, we work on the web and collaborate on isolated apps like Slack, Linear and Notion where we export web contents to discuss it. This leads to disjointed workflows, context switching, loss of context, etc. Figma gave us a glimpse of the incredible potential of deeply integrating collaboration into the productivity flow, and we wonder why hasn't it been implemented across all apps.
🎯 Layer is a Chrome extension that transforms your browser into a multiplayer experience with your team. Every website or web app becomes a collaborative space where you can leave layers of information, ideas, feedback, or notes for your team. And when words aren't enough, you can dive into live sessions, exploring the internet together in real-time with synchronised navigation and live cursors.
Imagine the collaboration features of Figma, but now extended to the entire web!
Here are just a few of the exciting use cases where Layer can be a game changer:
- 🔬 Research: Annotate competitor/industry websites with layer to highlight key insights for exploration.
- 🎙 Feedback on website: Provide feedback, suggestions, or report bugs directly in context
- 💭 Inspiration phase: Collect images and interactions for personal or team inspiration and reference.
- 🛠 Tool documentation: Leave contextual notes on ERP, BI, CRM tools for more info or explanation.
…and so much more. We’d love to hear from you on what kind of workflows would you like to improve or create by having your team with you natively on the internet. We deeply appreciate all feedback and suggestion here 💬
We are incredibly excited about the possibilities, and if you share our enthusiasm, we would love to hear from you. Show us some love and leave us a note at [email protected]Thank you all for your time and support!
Tarek & Sam
About Layer on Product Hunt
“Making your browser multiplayer”
Layer launched on Product Hunt on June 27th, 2023 and earned 165 upvotes and 82 comments, placing #8 on the daily leaderboard. Layer turns your browser into a collaborative workspace. Every website becomes a space for you and your team to collaborate; share ideas, feedback, notes, and explore the internet together in real-time. Imagine Figma’s collaboration but now across the browser!
On the analytics side, Layer competes within Productivity, SaaS and Tech — topics that collectively have 1.3M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Layer performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Layer?
Layer was hunted by Kevin William David. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Kevin William David