## Challenge Clover is a productivity tool that helps people take notes, whiteboard, track todos, and plan their day in one unified solution. While the Clover team knew they’ll eventually build a multiplayer product, the first version of their product was focused on creating a great single-player notetaking and whiteboarding experience. As more people started using the product, Clover needed to become inherently more collaborative to encourage guest collaboration and drive organic user growth. Building and maintaining a realtime collaborative infrastructure in‑house is extremely difficult and time-consuming. Clover needed a third‑party solution to help them turn their product into a realtime multiplayer experience without spending months of engineering time away from their core offering. ## Solution Because Clover was built with React and Firebase, the data could be easily refreshed when new updates would come through. The Clover team then used Liveblocks to add presence to the product so that their users would have a better idea of who’s in a document and what they’re currently doing. In less than a day, they built and shipped a live avatar stack, live cursors, and live selection.

## Results Clover now offers a true realtime multiplayer experience to their users, which helped increase guest sign-ups and also saved them tens of thousands of dollars in development and maintenance costs.