Chris Messina

Literal - Multiplayer app analytics

What is a multiplayer app analytics tool, you might ask? Literal pulls together app screens, analytics and API calls, and live data into a multiplayer whiteboard so app teams can discuss literally the same thing — all at the same time!

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Raghavan Menon
Congrats on launching! Such a clever idea. I've just begun trying it out at Espresa and so useful to understand our analytics events. Excited to try out everything it can do. Definitely worth checking out!
Chi-Kai Chien
@raghavan8 Thanks! Looking forward to getting you and the team up and going.
Alex Bird
@raghavan8 Thank you!
Shreyas Chand
I've done too many calls where the team is sharing multiple tabs of analytics, figma specs, and other dashboards to piece together the user story that our numbers are telling us. This tool will make that process much more collaborative! Also...omgwtf... creating a visual map from screen recordings is straight magic!!
Chi-Kai Chien
@chandsie The life of a mobile dev. :-) Thanks for the support! We've been heads down building exactly what would've been useful to us in the past. Shipping weekly iOS and Android releases is hard work!
Phillip Smith
@chandsie Thank you for appreciating our work. Hope the tool delivers for you! We welcome feedback and suggestions.
Ryan McDonough
Being able to see all the analytics/API calls inline with live product flows is a game changer. No more photo albums filled with unreviewed screenshots, living with the vague hope we caught issues in QA for the build, or wondering if we accidentally orphaned any user flows. Great work!
Chi-Kai Chien
@ryantmcdonough Thanks! Really appreciate your support!
Raph
@ryantmcdonough Glad the integration went well! We love chatting with you and the devs.
Aman Manik
When I was at Alan, I used to do screen audits to get the whole team on the same page and manually load up analytics. Sad and happy to have discovered Literal via @chikai many months later. For anyone that wants to get deep into understanding your experiences, both qualitatively and quantitatively, Literal is literally amazing.
Chi-Kai Chien
@amanik Appreciate the support and validation!
Raph
@amanik Thanks for spreading the word!
Jacinta
Wow! It really does only takes a few seconds of seeing it in action to understand the positive impact this could have on app development process. Not only is it super useful to have all the screens laid out in logical user flow, but having them paired with the API calls removes a layer of obfuscation that is normally a pain to deal with. Congrats on the launch! Am excited what other features you bring in the future. Hope your hard work pays off and you see lots of success!
Chi-Kai Chien
@jferrant thank you! Lots of useful features coming out soon around analytics. Did you try the tracking plan view at the top of the metadata panel?
Jacinta
@chikai I didn't notice that yet. I tried it out on the "Calm" app example! That's so much easier than tracking in spreadsheets. Loved that it shows the analytics event with the screen.
Chi-Kai Chien
@jferrant Events and properties usually end up getting named poorly and inconsistently—a picture is worth a thousands words! An automatic picture is worth...? 😁
Whitman Kwok
Congrats - as an early user during our app development and a big fan, great to see you here. Several have mentioned how this would help with big teams with lots of screens and user flows which is definitely true. As a startup it just makes life better since we don’t have the resources and are constantly iterating. Here’s hoping that others will get to benefit from Literal.
Raph
@kavsports Thank you so much for the feedback in the early days! It was great working with kavsports on iOS.
Chi-Kai Chien
@kavsports Happy to indirectly help make sure your customers get great fitting bike helmets!
Whitman Kwok
@vicidroid - you all did a great job accommodating our screen/step with dynamic content where the user was taking a head scan. Very cool.
megsloan
Congrats to the team! Used an early version of this product and it helped us move fast and get a real view of our product experience from the customer POV. It was a real myth buster internally and helped us up our game!
Chi-Kai Chien
@megsloan Super glad we could help out your team. Appreciate all the great feedback you've given us along the way!
Youcef Es-skouri
Congratulations on the launch. Super excited about Literal!
Sandro Turriate
@youcefhq Thanks for all your support and advice!
Chi-Kai Chien
@youcefhq Super appreciative of your advice!
Sumanyu Sharma
Congrats on the launch guys! We've run into this pain point (misaligned design/data assets + manually copy-pasting funnel designs with #s below in decks) at Citizen so many times. This solves a real pain point for us.
Raph
@sumanyu_sharma Thanks for your support Sumanyu!
Chi-Kai Chien
@sumanyu_sharma Thanks for the feedback!
Stu Lee
Congrats Literal team, your product looks amazing! I hope young Muck listens to old Muck!
Chi-Kai Chien
@stu_lee Thanks! I have a feeling young Muck isn't in the habit of listening to 2027 Muck.