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Co-founder & CEO @liveblocks 🇫🇷🇦🇺

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@stevenfabre
Steven Fabre
4 years
You can easily create custom party parrot emojis with @gifmock for @figmadesign ! #partyparrot #madewithgifmock
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Steven Fabre
7 years
Brought together my 2 favorites—sneakers + #InVisionStudio —to design this fast, animated e-commerce experience 🚀
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@stevenfabre
Steven Fabre
6 years
🚨 We're looking to grow the Studio design team 🚨 Many great things to come and we need your help! You'll also get to work from anywhere you want 🌎 Hit me up if you're interested 🙂
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1 year
We just announced @liveblocks 1.0. As part of this major update, the team also redesigned our website, docs, and dashboard. It’s full of little big details throughout. Let me highlight them in the thread below ⬇
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Steven Fabre
7 years
I built a tool to help me create high quality GIFs from my mockups. It's now available for you to use! 🎉
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Steven Fabre
5 months
It still blows my mind that a company with $100M+ ARR managed to go under only a few years later! 🤯 Definitely bittersweet news to me... We had a very special team of kind and talented people. Many of whom I still call friends.
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Steven Fabre
7 years
Mixing it up in #InVisionStudio with light mode today ⚡️. You’ll spot some new, smooth, advanced swipe interactions in this Apple Watch prototype
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Steven Fabre
5 years
Here is a little thing I made over the holidays, and we're starting to roll it out today! 🙌
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Steven Fabre
2 years
The @liveblocks website got a fresh coat of paint last week🎨 Here is a thread highlighting some little big details you'll find on the website... 🧵
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Steven Fabre
6 years
Inspired by my mate @charlespattson 's #Bitcoin app prototype, I used #InVisionStudio to create a desktop cryptocurrency site! 💸
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Steven Fabre
1 year
I just upgraded to @liveblocks 1.0.0 on my personal website—featuring some nice little improvements: - Used 16ms throttle to get to 60 FPS - Removed cursor interpolation - Added counter to show who’s around →
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Steven Fabre
3 years
So humbled to announce that we've raised $1.4M in pre-seed funding. This brings us closer to deliver to our vision of making digital experiences more collaborative. Thanks to all of those who supported us along the way!
@liveblocks
Liveblocks
3 years
We have some exciting news! We’ve raised a $1.4M pre-seed round let by @Boldstartvc and @Seedcamp to help grow the team and bring our storage block product to general availability.
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1 year
Two years ago today, @guillaume_slls and I officially started @liveblocks ! 🎂 Our goal was to enable developers to build real-time collaborative applications like @figma , @NotionHQ , or @Pitch in a matter of days, not months. Time to reflect and look at how we got here…
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Steven Fabre
6 years
New office setup 🤓 🖥 🎨
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Steven Fabre
2 years
Moved my website over to @vercel this weekend. Also took the opportunity to add some fun @liveblocks multiplayer features because... why not! Check it out 👉 #MadeWithLiveblocks
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@stevenfabre
Steven Fabre
6 years
I’m looking for NYC based designers who are willing to use @InVisionApp Studio for 45min and let me watch them do so. You’ll also get a $25 Amazon gift card at the end. If you are interested or know anyone who is, please DM me. Thank you! 🙌
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Steven Fabre
7 years
Super excited to introduce InVision Studio to the world!
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Steven Fabre
2 years
Every <input /> on the internet should be real-time synchronized across devices. Watch this 2min video to learn how to build this with @liveblocks !🍿 You can also try out the app directly here 👉
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Steven Fabre
4 months
Notifications are essential for any collaborative product. Yet, they’re extremely hard to build. Today’s release marks our commitment to providing a notification system that is optimized for collaboration and takes minutes to set up. Let’s dive into what makes it special…
@liveblocks
Liveblocks
4 months
Liveblocks 1.10 has been released. The new update adds notifications support for Comments: • A notification system, optimized for collaboration • Pre-built React components and hooks • A new webhook event for email notifications
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Steven Fabre
2 years
After a year of work and many iterations, we’ve finally launched Storage block into the wild! We also raised a $5M seed round from @Boldstartvc , @Atlassian , @seedcamp , and more. I can’t wait to see the amazing things we’ll accomplish together @liveblocks ! 🚀🎉
@liveblocks
Liveblocks
2 years
It's a big day for us: 1. We’ve raised a $5M seed round from Boldstart, Atlassian, Seedcamp, and more. 2. Storage block is now available for everyone. 🚀
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Steven Fabre
6 years
That awkward monthly recurring moment.
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Steven Fabre
7 years
I put #InVisionStudio ’s progressive swipe tracking to use with this drag & drop interface—inspired by the Campaign Monitor Email Builder! Take a look
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Steven Fabre
4 years
This long weekend, I experimented with SVG and React. I wanted to see if I could create a performant particle system all rendered with SVG. I liked the result, so decided to turn that into my portfolio website ✌️
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Steven Fabre
4 years
Gifmock for @sketch is here! 🚀🎉
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Steven Fabre
6 years
Introducing the @InVisionApp Studio App Platform & Development Program 🎉😎
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Steven Fabre
1 year
How it started. How it’s going.
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Steven Fabre
3 years
I started a new company with @guillaume_slls ! We’re building tools and APIs that help companies make amazing real-time collaborative experiences.
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Steven Fabre
1 year
Liveblocks 1.1 is out! With just a few lines of codes, you can now build status indicators like these 👇
@liveblocks
Liveblocks
1 year
Liveblocks 1.1 has been released. • Connection stability enhancements • Connection status API • Lost connection API • DevTools offline support Make sure to read our blog post to learn more.
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Steven Fabre
2 years
Our main navigation now uses @radix_ui navigation menu component to improve accessibility. This also MARCed @marcbouchenoire (see what I did there!🙃) first contribution to our code base. 🎉
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Steven Fabre
6 years
New York @InVisionApp design team! 🙌
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Steven Fabre
8 months
Come say hi! @liveblocks is in town for @nextjs conf!
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Steven Fabre
2 years
We just passed the 1M connections mark, and we only started counting less than 6 months ago. 🎉 Humbled to help thousands of developers build world-class collaborative experiences for people. Big big thank you to all of you, and cheers to the future! 🥂
@liveblocks
Liveblocks
2 years
Today, we just passed the 1M connections mark! 🎉 To know we are helping all of these people collaborate digitally as if they were together in the same room is beyond inspiring. Thank you!
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Steven Fabre
2 years
We just released an open-source collaborative block text editor powered by @liveblocks and Slate! Give it a try here 👉
@liveblocks
Liveblocks
2 years
📝 Introducing our open-source collaborative block text editor! Interested in building a multiplayer note-based app? We've built the foundations to make your project a reality. Add multiple types of blocks, and see them shared in real-time ✨ 🔗 Info 👇
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Steven Fabre
4 months
Crazy what dedication & hard work can do! 🤯 The @liveblocks infrastructure now handles 138× more weekly WebSocket connections than 2 years ago! That’s 100s of billions of WebSocket messages sent between millions of people all over the globe. Proud of this team! 🖤
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Steven Fabre
3 months
While working on my talk for #ReactParis today, I discovered the most beautiful and helpful comment I ever witnessed. It explains how our `colorMixScale` function works for our pre-built React components. Big kudos to @marcbouchenoire for sweating all the details! 👏
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@stevenfabre
Steven Fabre
2 years
You can add multiplayer undo/redo to your @reactjs app in less than 3 minutes with @liveblocks . Here is a short screencast I just recorded to show you how it works.🍿 Source code👉
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@stevenfabre
Steven Fabre
2 years
Today, @liveblocks officially turned 1! 🎂✨🥳 Proud of what we've achieved together so far, and even more excited for what's to come!
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Steven Fabre
1 year
Excited for @liveblocks to be partnering with @vercel to power live reactions on their upcoming live stream! Come join the party! 🎉
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Guillermo Rauch
1 year
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@stevenfabre
Steven Fabre
9 months
In 2017, I knew nothing about React and was taking @wesbos course to learn it in order to build @gifmock with it. Yesterday, @wesbos and @stolinski talked about how good @liveblocks is to build multiplayer/collaborative applications on their @syntaxfm podcast. Full circle 🖤
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Steven Fabre
5 years
Damn, I really missed this!
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@stevenfabre
Steven Fabre
4 years
I’m FREEEEEEEEEEE 🥳
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@stevenfabre
Steven Fabre
2 years
🚨📣 We're hiring a Design Engineer @liveblocks . Do you like making interactive microsites with animations? Do you enjoy experimenting with CSS or even WebGL? If so, I'd love to talk to you! DMs are open! :)
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Steven Fabre
8 months
Liveblocks in town!
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Steven Fabre
2 years
The illustration on the homepage is actually a multiplayer game built with @liveblocks — it looks 3D, it feels 3D, but this is all done in 2D. This allowed us to keep our little blocks on-brand throughout the site. Kudos to @guillaume_slls who helped us figure out the math!
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Steven Fabre
5 years
A bit last minute, but I'll be giving a talk/workshop at @dribbble hangtime NYC on Thursday. Come say hi if you're around! 👋 🏀
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@stevenfabre
Steven Fabre
5 years
InVision team hanging out at @dribbble #HangTimeNYC . Come say hi! 👋
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Steven Fabre
5 years
When making highly interactive products, some of the most important design decisions can only be made while building the thing. Having engineers who understand design and designers who understand code makes all the difference.
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Steven Fabre
4 years
I've been working on a whole new version of @gifmock for macOS. Checkout the new website to learn more. Excited to see all the amazing GIFs you all create! 🎉
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Steven Fabre
7 months
How it started. How it’s going.
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Steven Fabre
3 years
Did you notice? The cursor coordinates update as you move your cursor in the code snippet on the @liveblocks homepage 🙃 👋 @littlebigdetail
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Steven Fabre
2 years
Thanks @BrusselsReact for having me today. Loved the energy and hope to see more multiplayer experiences out there! #ReactBrussels Interactive deck can be found here:
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Steven Fabre
2 years
Finally meeting the one and only @mxstbr in person!
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Steven Fabre
2 years
Great thread 👀 We learned so much from Figma at @liveblocks . We spent the last 2 years rebuilding a lot of those core concepts as APIs that developers can use to make their own product multiplayer in days, not years. Excited to see more experiences become multiplayer!
@amaldorai
Amal Dorai
2 years
I'm not surprised that Adobe is acquiring Figma for $20B, nor that Wall Street doesn't understand it and $ADBE stock is down more than $20B today. It's a smart move for Adobe because it's nearly impossible to make legacy software applications multi-user collaborative. Thread: 🧵
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9 months
Make sure to check out the Liveblocks Yjs landing page we put together with @levaillantp 👀 Full of LittleBigDetails™, including a real-time collaborative rich-text editor! →
@liveblocks
Liveblocks
9 months
Introducing Liveblocks Yjs. A real-time persisted data store designed for collaborative text & code editors. Build & scale your Yjs app using our REST API, webhooks, dashboard, and more.
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@stevenfabre
Steven Fabre
8 years
Hanging out in Prague with the @InVisionApp Labs team and @vanschneider 👍🇨🇿
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@stevenfabre
Steven Fabre
5 years
Yes, Clark from InVision aka @ClarkValberg is a real person in case you're wondering!
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@stevenfabre
Steven Fabre
2 years
So humbled to help bring people together on the web. Excited for what's come. Thank you! 🙏
@liveblocks
Liveblocks
2 years
We just passed the 2M connections mark! 🚀🎉 It took us ~5 months to get to the first million, and only ~2 for the second. We're beyond excited to help so many people collaborate together on the web as if they were together in the same room. Thank you! ❤️
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Steven Fabre
2 years
Here we come Morocco! The @liveblocks team will be there this week to connect in person, celebrate what we’ve accomplished so far, get energized for what’s to come, and give back to the community. 🇲🇦🫶
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@stevenfabre
Steven Fabre
10 months
Our friends at @ArcolTech just launched their “Figma for architects” tool. Check it out, it’s awesome! Plus… the collaboration is powered by @liveblocks 🚀
@ArcolTech
Arcol
10 months
Arcol also works on mobile…. @jamesontheline literally built this on Sunday night
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Steven Fabre
3 years
With @liveblocks , building something real-time is as easy as building something local with React useState. There is no way we'd have been able to create a multiplayer tool like this in less than a day before. If you have a minute, we'd love your support:
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Steven Fabre
3 years
This was my #scopecreep addition right before the @liveblocks launch yesterday 😅 I hope you find this simultaneous connections calculator useful, but fun to use also!
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@stevenfabre
Steven Fabre
4 years
It’s exhausting to live in a country where you don’t feel welcomed.
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Steven Fabre
1 year
The @liveblocks starter kit we just announced today is the tool I always wanted to have when building creative tools in the past. I hope you’ll find this live demo useful! →
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Steven Fabre
5 months
It's been amazing partnering with @zapier to power collaboration on their new Canvas product! If you're a Zapier user, you're going to absolutely love this! 🚀
@zapier
Zapier
5 months
Your Zapier account just got a major upgrade 🎉 We're giving every account access to Interfaces and Tables: new products that work hand-in-hand with Zaps. The tasks you automate in Tables or Interfaces are free and won't count towards your task limit.
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Steven Fabre
1 year
Remote work is here to stay. People deserve and expect Figma-like experiences to feel connected with one another and work better together. This is just the beginning. Every SaaS product in all industries will become real-time collaborative.
@liveblocks
Liveblocks
1 year
We’ve just passed the 50M connections mark! 🤯 It’s amazing to empower developers and companies of all sizes and industries, and in doing so, help people feel more connected and work better together. Thank you 🖤
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Steven Fabre
3 years
Asking for help... How would you call this UI pattern where people's faces are showing next to a share/invite button?
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Steven Fabre
1 year
To kick things off with the #LiveblocksLaunchWeek , I’m excited to announce Liveblocks 1.0, the real-time collaboration infrastructure for developers. Incredible work from the whole @liveblocks team!
@liveblocks
Liveblocks
1 year
#LiveblocksLaunchWeek – Day 1 Introducing Liveblocks 1.0: the complete toolkit to modularly embed collaborative experiences into your product in days, not months. →
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@stevenfabre
Steven Fabre
9 years
“What I learnt building Easee, a web animation tool for designers.” @easeedesign
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Steven Fabre
1 year
The @liveblocks DevTools browser extension makes building multiplayer experiences so freaking easy. I can’t imagine building stuff without it. I’d love to see more companies invest in tooling like this. Here is the code for it if you’re interested:
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@stevenfabre
Steven Fabre
3 years
We just invited 300 more people to @liveblocks ! Make sure to check your emails if you’ve requested access. 🙌
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Steven Fabre
3 years
We're looking to add a lot more people to the storage private beta @liveblocks in the coming weeks! With storage & presence combined, you can build performant multiplayer experiences like @figmadesign , @_motionbox , @sprout_place in a matter of days. Interested? DMs are open 👋
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Steven Fabre
6 years
I recently just moved to NYC, and this book was incredibly valuable. Totally worth the money!
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Steven Fabre
4 years
Happy Valentine's day Twitter nerds. Should designers date? 😂
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Steven Fabre
7 months
Amazing job from the whole @liveblocks team. This was a big product initiative we spent the last year working on. Proud of this team! We’re also on Product Hunt today and would love your support there.
@liveblocks
Liveblocks
7 months
Enable discussion in your product with Liveblocks Comments. Seamlessly embed a customizable commenting experience into any product using ready-made React components.
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Steven Fabre
11 months
Developer Experience is our number one priority at @liveblocks — not just in our docs, dashboard, and packages, but also with customer support. This is what makes the difference between building a little hacked-together prototype and a production-ready application that scales.
@ArcolTech
Arcol
11 months
Today we ran into an issue with @liveblocks . This was a very high priority issue for us. We reached out to @Jrowny and rest of the team, within 90 minutes they had shipped an update that fixed our issue. THIS is the reason we rely on @liveblocks , thank you team!
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Steven Fabre
1 year
I enjoyed this conversation, especially the part on how to find talented people & make sure they thrive once they’ve joined the company. Not something I hear about enough—at least on the podcasts I listen to—but is probably the THING that matters most when building a company.
@Stellate
Stellate ⚡️
1 year
Fostering talent: what’s @rauchg ’s secret to finding talented people and creating an environment for them to thrive at @vercel ? 🌼🚰 Catch the new Future Founder Promise podcast episode here:  👈
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Steven Fabre
5 years
I don’t understand the bashing that goes on people working long hours, or people celebrating those who do. Having a good work/life balance is important for sure. But from my own personal experience, it’s work on nights and weekends that got me to where I am today. Thread:
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Steven Fabre
3 years
Thrilled to release this into the world! I can't wait to see what you all create with @liveblocks !
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Steven Fabre
5 months
Humans and AI bots working seamlessly together! That’s the kind of workflows @liveblocks enables. The team at @hashnode has been an absolute pleasure to work with. So awesome to see them invest in collaboration!
@Sandeepg33k
Sandeep
5 months
Excited to share that @hashnode 's editor is going to get another superpower very soon. We are bringing Google Docs style collaborative editing 🤝 to Hashnode!
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Steven Fabre
7 months
We had less than 100K connections/month two years ago! 🤯 I’m grateful for the incredible team who helped shape and scale the infrastructure that now connects millions of people around the world.
@liveblocks
Liveblocks
7 months
We’re incredibly excited to share that Liveblocks has powered over 100,000,000 WebSocket connections in the last 2 years! ⚡️ From AI products to text editing tools, we appreciate every one of you.
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Steven Fabre
6 years
2018, the year I became an engineer without even realising it 🤓
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Steven Fabre
4 years
That's about 4000 pixel particles dynamically generated from a PNG. Animating hundreds of particles at the time in some cases.
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Steven Fabre
6 years
#SydneyDesigners @buzzusborne talking about his experience growing the CM design team.
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Steven Fabre
7 years
All I've gotta now is buy RM Williams and I'll be fully integrated! #citizen #straya #citizen #mate #vegemite 🇦🇺✅
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Steven Fabre
3 years
Today is my last day in NYC 🗽👋 Looking forward to being closer to friends and family in 🇦🇺+🇫🇷
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Steven Fabre
3 years
I just checked our dashboard, and I'm blown away by the amount of people that played with the blocks on our @liveblocks landing page over the last 24h. ~3.8M messages were sent to display live cursors. 3.8M. in 24h! 😮
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Steven Fabre
1 year
The Liveblocks Starter Kit is live on Product Hunt today. We'll be announcing more about this today on our @liveblocks account. Would love your support there in the meantime if you have a minute! Thank you 🙏
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Steven Fabre
9 months
Good to be back!
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Steven Fabre
2 years
Liveblocks concepts and APIs are difficult to explain with just words. The website is full of animated illustrations and interactive examples to explain what @liveblocks does. Notice how the x/y coordinates update as you drag shapes on the left... 👀 👉
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Steven Fabre
9 months
Comments is one of those features that seems easy to build but is not. Keyboard shortcuts, contextual annotations, notifying people who've been mentioned, resolving threads, emoji reactions, the list goes on! 🤯 You're going to love those @liveblocks React components! 🖤
@ctnicholasdev
Chris Nicholas
9 months
A fully-customisable commenting experience… in just a few React components. Sign up for the private beta →
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Steven Fabre
6 years
Packing for my new place be like... 🤓
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Steven Fabre
8 months
This genuinely blows my mind! 🤯 Not long ago, this would have required a handful of people working together for multiple months. Love seeing these technologies glued together like that to build and ship world-class web experiences so quickly!
@JohnPhamous
JohnPhamous
8 months
hosted a bbq—built a real-time app for people to place their orders. orders showed up on the “grill master” view as they came in took less than an hour with @liveblocks , @nextjs , @vercel , @v0 and @tailwindcss
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Steven Fabre
4 years
Here is a GIF showing the final result
@stevenfabre
Steven Fabre
4 years
This long weekend, I experimented with SVG and React. I wanted to see if I could create a performant particle system all rendered with SVG. I liked the result, so decided to turn that into my portfolio website ✌️
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Steven Fabre
3 months
Not sure what I’m doing with my hands 🙃
@ekino_France
ekino
3 months
@Una @YuLingEC React component as service 🤯
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Steven Fabre
6 years
I don’t think I fully realise, but I’ve only got two weeks left in Sydney before starting a new life in New York. It’s getting real!
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Steven Fabre
3 years
Finally meeting @WidawskiJ in person! 🇫🇷
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