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Steven Fabre - Liveblocks
Jul 7, 2023
This week, Steven Fabre, CEO and co-founder of Liveblocks, discusses building a real-time infrastructure for collaborative apps and the importance of collaboration in a digital world. They also explore the challenges of creating a great developer experience (DX) and the concept of presence in Liveblocks, including live cursors, multiplayer forms, and text editors.
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Quick takeaways
- Live Blocks aims to make collaboration easier for developers by combining Figma infrastructure and offering it as a service, providing tools like live cursors and collaborative forms.
- Live Blocks has diverse use cases beyond design tools, such as enabling collaborative 3D mapping for civil engineers using drone footage and addressing conflicts in patient file editing in a telemedicine tool, demonstrating its potential in various industries.
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Differentiation through Seamless Integration
Live Blocks aims to combine the Figma infrastructure and offer it as a service. The goal is to make different experiences, such as live cursors, follow me features, and collaborative forms, work seamlessly together. By integrating web socket mechanisms, conflict resolution, REST APIs, and other tools, Live Blocks provides developers with the ability to build collaborative apps easily and efficiently.
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