Liveblocks Comments enables developers to add commenting features to their SaaS product in minutes. It's purpose-built for React, real-time, fully customizable, and accessible. Comments help you grow usage and get teams engaged in your product.
Hi everyone,
Earlier this year, we announced that Liveblocks Comments was entering private beta and have since collaborated with dozens of design partners to help shape the best product possible. Today, weβre excited to open up Liveblocks Comments to everyone as a public beta.
Liveblocks Comments is purpose-built for React, making it easy for you add commenting features to your product in minutes. The components are real-time, fully customizable, and accessible. It's also easy to integrate comments with any notification system, giving you full flexibility over email and notification flows.
The Liveblocks team and I will be around all day to answer questions! π
@rajiv_ayyangar we already have dozens of customers using this in production in their product. They use Liveblocks Comments to quickly add commenting features to their product, and in return they tend to see an increase in engagement and user growth through comment mentions.
@stevenfabre Impressive work, team! The real-time, customizable, and React-friendly features of Liveblocks Comments are exactly what devs need to boost user engagement. How does it handle moderation? Excited to see its potential impact! π #Upvote
@stevenfabre Hey @yura_turivny, first of all, thanks for the kind words! Really appreciated!
During our beta phase of COmments, we didn't get a lof of request for moderation, but we're seeing more and more of it today. Very interesting?
I'd be curious to hear your exact needs, and what you're building.
My first thought would be to have new permission to allow someone to remove someone else's comments/threads, right?
Oh, btw, I'm Product manager here, thus the detailed questions π
Again thank for your time! π
So impressive. Liveblocks: "take a really hard thing, make it easy with just a few lines of code, oh and it's gorgeous out of the box." Congrats on the launch!
@rrhoover Exciting! You may like to check out our examples, we've built a few complex ones already, e.g. video comments, text editor comments, comments overlay on any website.
https://liveblocks.io/examples/b...
Congrats to the team on the launch!
Let me say as a builder who loves working on collaborative apps... comments are underestimated as a problem, like most realtime features. They're so deceptively simple looking that product often thinks it's a small ask, but try to build them yourself and you will probably miss your estimate or regret it once users start asking for edit, delete, reactions... threads!!! Why reinvent the wheel?
The Liveblocks team has done a great job breaking down realtime product features into drop-in solutions and this is a compelling entry in their portfolio.
The extra primitives and tools look first class, too. Amazing stuff.
@grant_forrest Thanks so much Grant! I've been testing it solidly for two months, and now it's really polished and the DX is fantastic. And you're totally right, there's so much more to consider, but you often don't realise until you start building.
The primitives and hooks honestly feel like a superpower.
Thanks again!
It's wonderful to see how Liveblocks Comments is revolutionizing the way developers can integrate commenting features, making it easier and more efficient.
π Liveblocks Comments looks like an excellent solution for SaaS developers looking to enhance user engagement. The real-time and customizable features are great. π
How do you see this tool evolving to further enhance user interactivity, and what unique customization options does it offer for developers?
@malkielfalcone thank you, Kirrill.
Liveblocks is pretty flexible. You can use our APIs and tools to build all kinds of collaborative experiences, which all help with engagement overall.
Congrats on the launch!
Once again, the Liveblocks team delivers and incredible accelerator. This is one of those things that used to take an engineering team weeks if not months to deliver (trust me, I've done it) and now it takes one engineer hours if not minutes.
Well done team, well done π
Hey Steven! π Exciting to see how far Liveblocks Comments has come since the private beta. It's fantastic that it's built for React and is user-friendly; this makes it perfect for developers of all skill levels. Can't wait to explore its ability to integrate into different notification systems. Keep up the superb work, team! Looking forward to more products like this. π
I like how extensible Liveblocks Comments is. The use case I always think of is documents like Google docs, etc. However, seeing Comments having the ability to be embedded within text editors, media players and more unlocks a lot of interesting use cases!
@sg2 π― you can add Comments to just about anything! When building examples I was also thinking of Zoom, SoundCloud, Notion. You can take it to the next level too, e.g. use it to make a Chrome extension that adds a Comments overlay to any website you visit.
As someone who has built this type of UI/UX experience for my previous products, I have to say this is one of the best in the market!
Congratulations on the launch!
This looks amazing and ridiculously useful - the whole thing looks *really* polished (including the site design itself). One way I envision using this is for "support" - a sort of a "share your desktop" thing, without having to share your desktop. Ie. A user can describe what they're seeing, what they like/don't like. Also, a way to get "feedback" for users that have flagged themselves for reviewing beta features - that sort of thing.
Really cool! Kudos!
Effective & Efficient! Liveblocks Comments have nailed it with customizable user experiences for teams. The chance to adapt the comments to any app is a winning feature.
As usual, exceptional work done by the Liveblocks team! Congratulations to everyone, and continue to make the lives of developers and companies simpler π₯
I'm a huge fan of Liveblocks. They truly produce excellent work. In my opinion, it's a product that's destined to become much more popular. I'm particularly enamored with the versatile design of the comment feature. I hope they continue to inspire the market with their new projects.
Bravo, congrats @stevenfabre and team on the launch!
Excited to see what developers build with Liveblocks Comments, especially love that it's fully customizable π₯
Liveblocks Comments is a promising solution for developers looking to add commenting to their products with ease. In fact, this is really cool and very convenient, because it will significantly speed up the work
UI website design, very nice - I liked it
Excellent work on making user engagement so effortless. The capability of integrating Liveblocks comments seamlessly into the product with such customization is splendid.
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