Live Team Collab
Live Team Collab lets you and a teammate work on the same canvas at the same time. Pro feature. Sessions are 1-on-1 right now (owner + one guest).
Two modes:
- Casual. Shared canvas with live cursors. Use it for design reviews, pair-designing, or just whiteboarding together.
- Interview. A mock system-design interview with a built-in checklist. The interviewer reveals items as the candidate works; private hints stay hidden from the candidate.
Start a session
Section titled “Start a session”- Open a project.
- Click Team in the top bar.
- Pick a mode:
- Casual starts right away with a shared canvas and live cursors.
- Interview asks for a template and your role (Interviewer or Candidate). The checklist seeds in as todos, all hidden until revealed.
- Click Start session.
- Share the invite link, or invite a teammate by email from the Team panel.
A Live badge shows up on the project card on your dashboard so you don’t lose track of it.
Sharing the canvas
Section titled “Sharing the canvas”- Cursors and edits sync live.
- If two people edit the same block at the exact same moment, one wins and the other catches up on the next change. Talk to each other.
- The owner’s project saves every 500ms. When the session ends, the owner keeps the project. Guests get a frozen copy they can keep editing on their own.
Interview mode
Section titled “Interview mode”The interviewer picks the template and role at the start. The checklist panel only shows up in Interview sessions; Casual sessions are just canvas and cursors.
The owner and the interviewer can both:
- Reveal checklist items one at a time (eye toggle on each item).
- See hints on each item (private interviewer notes).
- Delete template items to skip parts of the checklist.
- Add custom items mid-session.
The candidate only sees revealed items, and never sees hints.
If the owner picks Candidate as their role, the first guest to join automatically becomes the interviewer.
Templates
Section titled “Templates”8 hand-written templates, matching the system-design interview catalog:
| Template | Difficulty | Time |
|---|---|---|
| URL shortener | Easy | 30 min |
| Chat app | Medium | 45 min |
| Notifications | Medium | 40 min |
| Rate limiter | Medium | 30 min |
| File upload | Medium | 35 min |
| Pub/sub | Hard | 45 min |
| CDN | Hard | 45 min |
| News feed | Hard | 45 min |
Each template comes with 8 checklist items (weighted 1-3) plus a private interviewer hint.
Limits
Section titled “Limits”- 1-on-1. Owner plus one guest (2 people total) for now.
- Pro only. Free users can join sessions but can’t start them.
- Free guests past the 3-project limit still get a mirror copy, but it’s view-only on their dashboard.
End a session
Section titled “End a session”The owner ends the session with the End session button at the bottom of the Team panel. Two-step confirm. Once ended:
- Guests drop into a read-only view of the final canvas.
- The owner’s project keeps the final state. Guest copies freeze.
- The session and checklist archive; the canvas lives on in the projects.
Privacy
Section titled “Privacy”- Invite links only work for one session and stop working once it ends.
- Guests never see other guests’ email addresses.
- Email lookups for invites only return a profile name and avatar — never the email itself.
- Display names aren’t unique; we never show email addresses in the participant list.