Hi PH! I’m Steven, CEO of Liveblocks (https://liveblocks.io)
Back in 2021, I started Liveblocks with my co-founder Guillaume because we were frustrated by how difficult it was to build engaging collaborative products like Figma, Linear, Notion, and others.
There’s a reason why those companies are thriving. Their secret? They’ve perfected collaboration with realtime comments, intelligent notifications, and multiplayer editing. I witnessed this first hand in 2016-2020 while working on InVision Studio, a design tool from a company that once was valued at nearly $2B with over $100M in annual recurring revenue. We were killing it, but Figma was becoming increasingly popular within the design community, thanks to their incredible browser-based collaborative design tool.
To compete, we knew we had to perfect collaboration in the product, and we knew we had to do it fast. So leadership spun up a dedicated squad to convert InVision Studio from a desktop-based single-user application into a browser-based collaborative-by-default platform. Unfortunately, it was too little, too late. What seemed easy-enough at first glance turned into months-long battles for quality. And fast forward a few years, InVision officially announced they’d be shutting down.
That’s why we created Liveblocks—so that you could write a different story for your company.
Here’s how Liveblocks 2.0 works:
✨ Choose what collaborative features you want to add to your product (comments, notifications, text editor, etc.)
🎨 Use our pre-built fully customizable React components to add those to your app with just a few lines of code
📈 Watch engagement and user growth
Liveblocks already powers collaboration for companies of various industries and stages such as Zapier, Vercel, Hashnode, and more!
Thank you for your support PH 🙏
