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 🙏
Amazing product and great team ! Look forward to testing out version 2.0 to create a collaborative experience for an online groceries service I'm building :) congrats !
Congratulations to Steven and the Liveblocks team on the launch of Liveblocks ! Amazing tool!
congrats on the launch of liveblocks 2.0. it's exciting to see a tool aimed at simplifying the integration of collaborative features. can you share any user feedback on how liveblocks has impacted their product development speed or user engagement
Hey @stevenfabre, love the new branding and website redesign. Have always loved the way you folks articulate the information. ✨
I like the idea of customizable React components for easy implementation. Impressive approach by Liveblocks 2.0 to simplify real-time collaboration features. I'm impressed by your website UI! The layout is clean and modern.
It's really convenient for quickly implementing AI-supported commenting features. 👍
Congrats on the launch of Liveblocks 2.0! Adding collaborative features like comments, notifications, and multiplayer editing in days sounds like a solid move.
Liveblocks 2.0 looks like a fantastic solution for adding collaboration features quickly! I'm curious, how do you ensure the platform remains scalable and maintains performance as more users collaborate in real-time?
The real win was the customer-experience leveled up in a fundamental way but the sheer amount of code I got to delete in favor of moving onto LiveBlocks was amazing in itself. Twofers like this are magical.
Wow, Liveblocks 2.0 looks super promising for enhancing collaboration in apps! Love the idea of adding real-time editing and comments so quickly. Curious, how does Liveblocks handle potential conflicts or merge issues when multiple users are editing the same content simultaneously? 🚀
Liveblocks 2.0 is a game-changer collaboration platform. Congratulations on the launch!
Pretty smooth experience! It only makes sense to create highly engaging products ... using a highly collaborate system like this one. Incredible work!
Amazing product! It has been invaluable as we've gotten our realtime collaborative moviemaking app off the ground.
