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 🙏
About Liveblocks 2.0 on Product Hunt
“Unlock collaboration in your product”
Liveblocks 2.0 launched on Product Hunt on June 13th, 2024 and earned 645 upvotes and 117 comments, earning #3 Product of the Day. Liveblocks is the platform for adding collaborative editing, comments, and notifications into your application in days, not months.
On the analytics side, Liveblocks 2.0 competes within Text Editors, Developer Tools and SDK — topics that collectively have 528.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Liveblocks 2.0 performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Liveblocks 2.0?
Liveblocks 2.0 was hunted by Steven Fabre. 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.
Steven Fabre