Build apps faster

Happy Friday! The Product Hunt team is bidding adios to a wonderful and productive week in Barcelona. In today’s digest, I’m covering a platform that makes building real-time multiplayer features easier and faster. But first…

The headlines: 

💸 Tesla shareholders have voted yes (again) to approve Elon’s $56B pay plan. 

🤖 Brave is integrating its search results with its own AI-powered chatbot, Leo.

📰 Yahoo is resurrecting Artifact, the news app founded by the Instagram founder.

Building apps has become easier over the past few years thanks to APIs, frameworks, and SDKs. These tools make it faster to implement features that, say, twenty years ago, would have taken weeks, if not months, to build by yourself. 

One of the features that is still notoriously difficult to implement is real-time collaboration. The cursors and comments of your teammates in your Figma design that you might take for granted is no small feat, and in today’s remote work world, reliable, real-time collaboration is critical to any team software. 

Liveblocks is a platform built to make it easier to implement these features. It was founded by Steven Fabre and Guillaume Salles in 2021 as a live presence API showing which team members were viewing a document. Since then, it has raised $5 million in seed funding to expand its capabilities, and the team just launched the latest update.

So what’s new? Since its initial launch, the team has doubled down on its efforts to become an all-in-one collaboration suite for your products. The latest update expands beyond live presence functionality to include more complex features like real-time text editing, live commenting, and real-time notifications when your team makes edits or suggestions. 

It also ships with “Realtime APIs,” so if something is missing that your team can’t live without, you can build it with the Liveblocks service.

The handy thing about this is that every feature includes fully-styled default components. If you need to implement comments and aren’t too fussy about the specifics, you can theoretically add them to your app in moments. Components even include dark mode by default.

It's in pretty good company too with companies like Zapier, Vercel, Hashnode, and others all using Liveblocks to power their suite of real-time collaboration features.

FOR DEVELOPERS 

DevDojo Auth is an open-source authentication package that adds drop-in-ready authentication pages to your Laravel app. It includes fully customizable pages for login, registration, password recovery, social auth, 2FA, and more.

LayerOps allows applications to be deployed and managed across multiple public, private, and hybrid clouds without dealing with each provider's technical characteristics.

FOR HIRING

PyjamaHR is an AI applicant tracking system that uses AI agents to source and interview potential candidates based on your set criteria. It integrates with LinkedIn, Monster, and more. 

CandiView uses AI to help you do resume screening faster. Its four-step screening process streamlines hiring by automatically comparing resumes to job descriptions, assessing skills, verifying references, and finally helping you make a decision.

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