Case Study: Rippling builds a Google Docs-like 1:1s experience with Liveblocks

Rippling ships a 1:1s tool 1-2 months faster with Liveblocks

Rippling, a unified workforce platform, faced the challenge of building a new collaborative 1:1s tool that needed to rival the user-friendly experience of Google Docs but with more structure and durability. Their goal was to deliver this product quickly with a small team, avoiding the immense operational overhead of building and maintaining their own complex realtime collaboration infrastructure, which would have taken 1-2 months just to begin development.

By implementing Liveblocks, Rippling gained a powerful realtime collaboration engine with features like shared editing and presence, built on the Yjs framework. This solution allowed the team to focus entirely on their product's user experience and ship faster. Liveblocks enabled Rippling to avoid hiring specialized infrastructure engineers and delivered the Google Docs-level UX they required.

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