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---
meta:
title: "Why Liveblocks"
parentTitle: "Concepts"
description:
"Liveblocks is a real-time collaboration infrastructure for building
performant collaborative experiences."
---
At Liveblocks, we firmly believe that flexible office policies are here to stay,
and that as a result, all SaaS products will eventually need real-time
collaboration. Every project we undertake at Liveblocks stems from this belief,
and the belief that we can empower people to work better together, and feel more
closely connected with one another.
## Why collaboration
In 2006, following years of development, Google launched their browser-based
real-time collaborative Microsoft Word competitor. This approach transformed the
way people work together enabling them to collaborate efficiently in real-time
but also asynchronously via comments—no more disjointed email threads with files
being passed around. As Google were gaining market shares, Microsoft were forced
to build similar collaboration features directly into Microsoft Word and the
broader Microsoft Office ecosystem in order to compete.
<Figure highlight>
<Image
src="/assets/concepts/why-liveblocks-google.png"
alt="Why Liveblocks - Google"
width={768}
height={440}
/>
</Figure>
Around a decade later, Figma flipped the whole software design industry on its
head with their browser-based tool for multiplayer design, and subsequently left
leading companies behind. Few designers believed a quality design tool could be
built into the browser, and no designers wanted to have their peers and managers
looking over their shoulders while designing. Yet, the Figma team proved
everybody wrong and a majority of designers started to use their product. And
because Figma was built with collaboration at its core, engineers, product
managers, executives, marketers, and copywriters quickly followed.
<Figure highlight>
<Image
src="/assets/concepts/why-liveblocks-figma.png"
alt="Why Liveblocks - Figma"
width={768}
height={440}
/>
</Figure>
Those companies had the technical expertise, along with millions of dollars, to
pull this off. A handful of forward-looking companies were also able to build
incredible collaborative products and became leaders in their respective
markets: Notion, Pitch, Canva, Miro, Mural, Linear, to mention a few. While more
and more companies are becoming aware of the importance of collaboration, only
the ones that have gone through this process truly understand how painful and
expensive it is to build and maintain.
<Figure highlight>
<Image
src="/assets/concepts/why-liveblocks-collaboration-pioneers.png"
alt="Why Liveblocks - Figma"
width={768}
height={440}
/>
</Figure>
## Why choose Liveblocks
Liveblocks is a real-time collaboration infrastructure for building performant
collaborative experiences. We focus on the following five core pillars to enable
companies to build awesome collaborative experiences in a matter of days, not
months:
- A complete modular collaboration toolkit
- Deep integrations with your stack
- Pre-built components and examples
- Developer-centric tooling
- Fully-hosted solution
### A complete modular collaboration toolkit
Liveblocks is a complete modular toolkit for embedding collaborative experiences
into your product, enabling you to pick and choose the parts you need depending
on the type of collaborative experience you’re trying to build and its
requirements.
### Deep integrations with your stack
Liveblocks integrates deeply with popular frontend frameworks and libraries,
making it easy to embed real‑time collaborative experiences into any product
quickly.
### Pre-built components and examples
Liveblocks provides you with powerful open‑source examples and components that
can be used modularly, enabling you to move fast while focusing on your core
product.
### Developer-centric tooling
Liveblocks accelerates your productivity with a great developer experience
throughout, including [DevTools](/docs/platform/devtools), and analytics to
understand how your users are using your product’s collaborative features.
### Fully-hosted solution
No more monitoring WebSocket servers, worrying about scale and maintenance of
legacy systems. Liveblocks is fully hosted so you can focus on your core
product.