Bring collaborative multiplayer experiences to your users
Fully featured SDKs enable you to add collaborative experiences to your product, like it was just another feature. No re-architecting your application from scratch. No infrastructure to build.
Companies building on Ably
Harnesses the power of realtime for collaborative and interactive presentations.
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Provides interactive learning experiences for 30m students around the world.
Multiplayer collaboration with no code web design and development tools for web development at scale.
Gives teachers realtime visibility of student activity and control over their online workspaces.
From single player to multiplayer in a few lines of code
Build in collaborative features to enhance your product's user experience and set you apart from the competition. Ably has the building blocks to create what you need, whether it is:
Ensuring everyone has the same up-to-date view
Showing who is working in a doc and where
Enhancing the experience with visual cues like cursor tracking and typing indicators,
Give customers a frictionless collaborative experience to shout about
A seamless collaborative experience means having shared context, edits happening in the correct order, actions not being overridden by another, knowing who is and isn’t actively present and so much more. That means powering your application with a realtime infrastructure that can handle state synchronisation, guaranteed message ordering and delivery at low latencies and scale on demand.
Ably lets you stay ahead. We enable you to roll out features-to-market quickly that both delight customers and increase usage.
Make your product collaborative
Add collaboration as a feature without the heavy investment in resource and time. Get multiplayer on your roadmap. Approved and future proof.
Will need to re-engineer your product from scratch to turn it into a 'collaboration-first' product. Big budget sign-off required, delayed roadmap execution.
Time to Market
Deliver a feature rich multiplayer collaborative experience fast with Ably's building blocks. No trade offs.
It will take months, if not years, to fully rollout new multiplayer collaborative features to users. Competitors have time to catch-up or overtake. User numbers and experience drops.
Realtime building blocks for multiple use cases
Use our raw API or powerful SDKs to make your application mulitplayer and add a host of other realtime features to enhance user experiences. You maintain control over building what best fits your solution.
Either stuck with single purpose technology that you can't mould to your needs. Or you risk making the challenge of building a realtime infrastructure - one that can handle multiple use cases - even harder.
Total cost of ownership
Building and maintaining realtime infrastructure is a costly exercise, we take on that burden for you. With Ably you save on build time, engineering resource, and ongoing running costs. Much lower COGS.
Lots of engineers required to develop and maintain your own realtime infrastructure. Valuable resource that could be better placed elsewhere. Plus you have the ongoing costs to manage as you scale. Not to mention the risk of outages to fix at 4am.
Reliability at enterprise scale
Highly elastic and fault tolerant, we can handle millions of concurrent connections arriving in short time periods. Backed by a 99.999% uptime SLA.
Risk impacting growth with increasing service disruptions and negative customer experiences when you hit scale.
Easy integration no matter your stack
We work with leading data storage and data processing providers. We easily slot into place and complement their strengths. Bring Ably to your tech stack.
Have to rearchitect what you have in place. Resources have to be diverted adding delay to your project.
Ably's multiplayer building blocks.
Presence allows you to automatically track and communicate the online status of your users. Use it to build an avatar stacks, typing indicators, cursor tracking and more.
All user actions and changes are synced correctly and at low latency.
Distribute events to millions of subscribers over channels that support multiplexing with Ably’s feature-rich pub/sub APIs. We ensure delivery of the right message to the right client in realtime.
On disconnect we keep state and retry connection every 15 seconds for two minutes, meaning users receive a seamless collaborative experience with messages arriving in the correct order.
We guarantee ordering, delivery, and exactly-once semantics from the moment an event is published to Ably, all the way to its delivery to consumers.
Our client library SDKs target every major web and mobile platform and offer a simple, consistent, and intuitive API. The SDKs preserve connection state and automatically re-establish failed connections to ensure stream continuity.
Build collaborative user experiences. Not the infrastructure to power it
Enjoy the freedom to focus on adding new collaboration features, not on building and maintaining realtime infrastructure. We handle everything you need from day one and provide guarantees and SLAs across performance, data integrity, security, and reliability. Ably manages it all, so that you can stay focused.
Ably set a new gold standard for the type of service we expect from third parties...
Resources
Blog
Scale up to a collaborative and multiplayer architecture with serverless WebSockets
Examples
See how our simple to use APIs such as Presence, History and Message Interactions, makes it easy to add realtime features to your Ably applications.
Tutorial
How to build a multiplayer Tic Tac Toe game in Vue.js
Blog
Adobe is buying Figma because building collaborative experiences is hard.
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