Hello Hacker News, My team and I wanted to help developers use Ably’s Pub/Sub Channels to create multiplayer collaboration features for their apps by creating impactful educational and onboarding resources. But after speaking with a lot of developers, both our customers and friends externally, we recognised the need for purpose-built APIs that are optimised exactly for the payload structure, frequency of updates and end user experience uniquely anticipated for each feature. This means less time spent by developers architecting the lower-level but flexible features such as channels, presence and history that we offer. Thus came a new product “Spaces” — to help developers build collaborative spaces in their apps in just a few lines of code. Right now, it enables four main features — avatar stacks, member locations, live cursors and component locking (my personal favourite)! Spaces is completely free to try, so please sign up for a developer account and let me know what you think. We’ll be around to answer any questions but really hope you would check it out and share your feedback. Thank you! Srushtika

It seems to be useful. Want to see how it’s going to evolve into the collaborative workspace for creating a collaborative environments! (Sounds unique and pretty promising)