Thanks @kevin for hunting us! Hellooo product hunt! 👋 I’m Tarek, co-founder of Layer. This is our first PH launch and we’re super excited to share with you what we’ve been working on. 🤓 First why are we building Layer? @samabi and I have been building software for many years now and realised that the way teams currently collaborate is mildly insane. Work and collaboration are two complete separate processes, we work on the web and collaborate on isolated apps like Slack, Linear and Notion where we export web contents to discuss it. This leads to disjointed workflows, context switching, loss of context, etc. Figma gave us a glimpse of the incredible potential of deeply integrating collaboration into the productivity flow, and we wonder why hasn't it been implemented across all apps. 🎯 Layer is a Chrome extension that transforms your browser into a multiplayer experience with your team. Every website or web app becomes a collaborative space where you can leave layers of information, ideas, feedback, or notes for your team. And when words aren't enough, you can dive into live sessions, exploring the internet together in real-time with synchronised navigation and live cursors. Imagine the collaboration features of Figma, but now extended to the entire web! Here are just a few of the exciting use cases where Layer can be a game changer: - 🔬 Research: Annotate competitor/industry websites with layer to highlight key insights for exploration. - 🎙 Feedback on website: Provide feedback, suggestions, or report bugs directly in context - 💭 Inspiration phase: Collect images and interactions for personal or team inspiration and reference. - 🛠 Tool documentation: Leave contextual notes on ERP, BI, CRM tools for more info or explanation. …and so much more. We’d love to hear from you on what kind of workflows would you like to improve or create by having your team with you natively on the internet. We deeply appreciate all feedback and suggestion here 💬 We are incredibly excited about the possibilities, and if you share our enthusiasm, we would love to hear from you. Show us some love and leave us a note at founders@layer.app Thank you all for your time and support! Tarek & Sam

Thrilling concept with a cool name, so ofc I'm gonna check it out. Are there multiple layers for different contexts / team vs personal layer? Or am I just imaging the onion layers metaphor lol 🧅

Great work @tarekabi and @samabi - congrats on the launch! Would love to understand if people can collaborate in real time i.e. watch the comments people leave on the page and reply back immediately. Also, what improvements would have to be made so that QA teams are able to use it to review time-sensitive information?

Really great team and as someone that works with product, design, and engineering there is definitely value to be added here!

This is really cool, and why is it free? Congratulations on your launch!

Always been a huge fan of how Figma integrated the multiplayer experience into their app, it set the standard of what multiplayer should be and makes me, perhaps unfairly, compare other mutliplayer experiences with Figma's. The problem has seemed to be that making multiplayer is hard and when teams are focused on their product's key value proposition, it's often hard to dedicate the time and resources needed to focus on multiplayer. This looks like the way forward for many of those applications, to some extent it's multiplayer as a service. It makes anything multiplayer + widens the context of the multiplayer experience. I wonder if the team starts to embed itself into native applications next. I'm extremely impressed at how smooth this is, when on websites I don't feel like this is a layer on top and can be fooled into thinking it's developed by the website's developers and embedded within the product. Phenomenal work here Tarek + Sam! Can't wait to see what's next!!!

Love the product, can easily see how this can help product and design teams. Even research teams collaborating on a project... Good luck guys!

Oooh really love this! As someone who loves browsing the web and curating information, being able to annotate and get granular with sharing specific things with friends / my team is a game changer. Love the concept and product!

Screenshots randomly stored and hard to find in Figma will be a thing of the past. Congratulations @tarekabi, @samabi, and team. Believer since day 1 💪

I had the chance to watch the co-founders, Sam and Tarek, work thoroughly on several products that they already succesfully sold and marketed. I must say that this one is the best. I’ve tested Layer and enjoyed it so much. Seamless and easy! Thanks and waiting for more product updates from these guys!

I am thrilled to witness the launch of Layer on PH! Over the last 2 months, I've had the privilege of utilizing it in its beta phase, and I'm delighted that it's now open to a wider audience. Layer has proven to be incredibly useful for me, particularly when it comes to providing front-end feedback. By directly annotating webpages, it eliminates the need for lengthy exchanges and screenshot sharing with my team, saving me hours of work!

Excited to try it! Which use case is resonating the most?

This looks pretty cool! How would you compare it to Workona?

The concept behind Layer is quite intriguing! Turning the entire web into a collaborative space sounds like it has immense potential. I'm curious, how does your platform manage to prevent information overload? With every website potentially being a space for collaboration, how do you help users navigate through this and keep the discussions and notes relevant and manageable?

Congrats @tarekabi and @samabi 🎉 Are you planning to integrate with Discord too? 👀

This is such a wild and fun idea. I like it! Not sure how much my colleagues will love it as I drag them into page after page but I can't wait to try.

Congrats on the launch guys! Looking forward to using your awesome tool. Layer be very useful throughout our digital transformation project.

Finally Layer launches to the world. It’s a must have for every team. Was so much fun seeing how quickly Layer evolved into a world class product. Excited to see what’s next.

Very cool product @tarekabi & team. Love using Layer for our company collaboration.

@tarekabi congrats on the launch! The product looks fantastic, excited to try it out