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Liveblocks

Liveblocks

Real-time collaboration infrastructure

Liveblocks provides real-time collaboration APIs — presence, cursors, comments, notifications, and text editing. Drop-in React hooks for multiplayer experiences.

Panel Reviews

The Builder

The Builder

Developer Perspective

Ship

React hooks for real-time presence, cursors, and collaborative editing. Makes adding multiplayer features trivial.

The Skeptic

The Skeptic

Reality Check

Ship

Building real-time collaboration from scratch is brutal. Liveblocks abstracts the hard parts with a clean API.

The Futurist

The Futurist

Big Picture

Ship

Every SaaS app will add real-time collaboration. Liveblocks is the infrastructure layer that makes it practical.

Community Sentiment

Overall1,569 mentions
72% positive19% neutral9% negative
Hacker News267 mentions
71%20%9%

Presence and cursors took 30 minutes to add with Liveblocks — same thing took 2 weeks building from scratch with WebSockets

Reddit441 mentions
74%18%8%

The React hooks API is incredibly clean — dropped in multiplayer to an existing app in an afternoon

Twitter/X683 mentions
69%21%10%

Liveblocks Tiptap integration makes building collaborative editors almost trivial — highly recommend

Product Hunt178 mentions
81%12%7%

Best-in-class real-time collaboration APIs — presence, cursors, comments all just work