Layer - Making your browser multiplayer

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

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!

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?

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?

Really great team and as someone that works with product, design, and engineering there is definitely value to be added here!

Looks cool! Will check it out... Good luck with the launch!

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 🧅

Congratulations on your launch! Your tool looks very cool and easy to collaborate!

Neeed this!

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!