What do Microsoft Word and Adobe have in common?
Both had their established market spaces completely disrupted by new entrants that brought realtime collaboration to the user experience.

Whilst the barrier to entry for adding features akin to Figma, Google Docs, and Miro had been high, it is now possible to build new collaborative applications, or even simply add collaborative features to existing applications - without building the realtime infrastructure.

In this video, Chief Product Officer, Tim Buntel, and Product Manager, Srushtika Neelakantam showcase how to build collaborative environments in just a few lines of code.

TIMESTAMPS ⏰

00:00 - Introduction

00:48 - The power of collaboration

1:46 - Examples of how collaboration has disrupted markets

5:25 - How did early collaborative players build these products?

7:38 - What is realtime collaboration?

10:45 - The challenge of creating collaborative experiences

13:20 - Introduction to Spaces

19:58 - Slide deck demo and Spaces API walkthrough

35:55 - Participant State vs App State

38:44 - React Hooks

39:34 - Q&A

ABOUT ABLY 👋

Ably is an enterprise-grade pub/sub messaging platform. We make it easy to efficiently design, quickly ship, and seamlessly scale critical realtime functionality delivered directly to end-users. Every day, we deliver billions of realtime messages to millions of users for thousands of companies.

ABOUT ABLY SPACES 🚀

Spaces enables you to build collaborative environments in your application. It provides high-level APIs for managing the data related to members collaborating synchronously in an application, such as their online status, or the position of their cursors. This is also known as participant state. Each API is optimized based on the payload structure and frequency of updates that are anticipated for that feature.

LINKS 🔗

SIGN UP TO ABLY: https://hubs.la/Q0246Vg70
SEE SPACES IN ACTION: https://hubs.la/Q0246Vs20
READ MORE ABOUT SPACES: https://hubs.la/Q0246Vsn0