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Layer — Making your browser multiplayer

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Layer turns your browser into a collaborative workspace. Every website becomes a space for you and your team to collaborate; share ideas, feedback, notes, and explore the internet together in real-time. Imagine Figma’s collaboration but now across the browser!

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Tarek Abillama
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
Pierre
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!
Tarek Abillama
Hey @pierresarkis21 we couldn't have said it better, thanks for the support!!
Konstantina Psoma
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?
Tarek Abillama
Thanks for your support @konstantinapsoma ! Yes, Layer does allow for real-time collaboration, including live comments. For QA teams, we're constantly improving and would love specific feedback to better cater the needs. Let's connect and discuss more!
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?
Tarek Abillama
Hey @ricardo_luz thanks for the support! You oversaw a big learning of our beta phase, so now (1) If they're action items, you can archive them once they're resolved and you'll still have a copy on slack for retrieval purposes and (2) if they're more passive comments you can add them to a collection, where they can be trimmed, organised and share.
Vlad Zivkovic
This is really cool, and why is it free? Congratulations on your launch!
Tarek Abillama
Hey @vladimir_zivkovic because we believe that the best things in life are free. Our goal is to keep it free for individuals, while introducing a paid tier for teams that unlocks special features. Thanks for the support! 🚀
Alex Harris
Really great team and as someone that works with product, design, and engineering there is definitely value to be added here!
Tarek Abillama
@alexharris Thanks for your support @alexharris ! We're delighted to hear you see value in Layer, it will bring you and your team collaboration superpowers.
Tidhar Peer
Looks cool! Will check it out... Good luck with the launch!
Tarek Abillama
Hey @tidhar_peer thanks for the support!
Naomi Chao
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 🧅
Tarek Abillama
Thanks for your interest @naomichao ! Yes, you're absolutely right - Layer does allow you to create different 'layers' for various groups and categories. So yes much like an onion - minus the tears ;) Dive in and see how it works for you 🚀
Naomi Chao
@tarekabi lol "minus the tears" I love that. Well much like an onion, this seems to go well with everything. It enhances the entire dish, so kudos for that ;)
MikeKwok
Congratulations on your launch! Your tool looks very cool and easy to collaborate!
Tarek Abillama
Thank you @kwokm_44, would love to hear your thoughts after trying it!
Janusz Mirowski
Neeed this!
Tarek Abillama
@janusz_mirowski glad to hear that we're not the only ones!🕺
Sam S
I had the opportunity to demo Layer over the last few weeks across a range of internal teams. We used Layer for CRO Optimization and collaboration across landing pages, PDF contract reviews within browser, dashboard creation and visualisation on Metabase, project management workflows, HR benefit packages and more. The opportunities really are endless and each team found the tool easy to use. Normally when you try to introduce a new product, tool or workflow the adoption and usage is low but with Layer it was seamless and felt so natural. Layer is incredible especially in a remote work environment. Congratulations Tarek, Sam and the whole team!
Tarek Abillama
Thank you for the amazing feedback @sa_sh ! We're thrilled Layer seamlessly enhanced your workflows. Your support is greatly appreciated!
Hisham Al Falih
This is so cool! Excited to use it with my team. Congrats on the launch guys, very impressive stuff!
Tarek Abillama
Thanks for support @hishamkf! We can't wait for you and your team to experience it, enjoy!
Holly Coulson
An incredible concept that I’m thrilled has been made a reality. Innovation in this space feels long overdue especially given the drawbacks that accompany remote working. I look forward to experiencing an increase in productivity, efficiency and creativity as a result of Layer.
Tarek Abillama
Thank you for your kind words @hocou ! We share your excitement and can't wait for you to experience the positive impact Layer will bring to your remote team. Enjoy the productivity boost!
Rami H
Love the product, can easily see how this can help product and design teams. Even research teams collaborating on a project... Good luck guys!
Tarek Abillama
Thanks @rami_h for the support and feedback throughout this journey!
Marc Atiyeh
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.
Tarek Abillama
Thanks for the kind words and support @marcatiyeh ! It's been an amazing journey and we're excited that you're part of it. Can't wait to show you what's next for Layer! 🚀
Steve Lewis
Congrats Tarek & team on your launch!
Tarek Abillama
Thanks @steve_lw ! 🙏
Kholiwe Cynthia
Congratulations on the launch. This looks great
Tarek Abillama
Jene serenio
great work tarek and Sam, congratz both.God bless. good luck to your journey
Tarek Abillama
Thank you @babejhean_m_serenio !!!
Sahil Kumar
its really nice, congrats team👍
Tarek Abillama
Thank you @demondoss !!
K
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!
Tarek Abillama
Thanks @karim_moughabghab for the support ! It's only the beginning, stay tuned 🚀