Extend Git with real-time collaborative superpowers

Hello Product Hunters! 👋

Nick here, founder of GitLive.

In our new remote-first world, GitLive is on a mission to boost teamwork between developers which has suffered now many of us are no longer physically co-located.

We are big believers in remote working being a remote-first team ourselves, and working remotely can actually help us devs by minimizing distractions and creating focus time. But great teams also thrive on good communication and teamwork is as much about making yourself available to those that may need your expertise as our own individual performance.

So we have been busy creating VS Code and JetBrains plugins that extend your IDE with real‑time collaborative superpowers! 💪

Once installed, indicators in the gutter of your editor will update in real-time showing the differences in a file compared to the changes made by your fellow developers on their respective branches.

The indicators provide a great way to discover what others are working on, if there are any possible synergies with the changes you are making and even get an early warning of potential merge conflicts.

Once intrigued by a teammate's change you can open the GitLive tab in your IDE to find out more. Here you can see if they are online, what branch and issue from your issue tracker they are working on, and view the full set of changes they have made, again, all updated in real-time.

Finally, if you feel the two of you could benefit from working together you can call your teammate straight from the IDE and use our codeshare feature to see each other’s cursors and edit together simultaneously.

We are really only just getting started when it comes to building the best tool for developer collaboration and I really hope you can join us on this journey and help shape the future of GitLive.

Looking forward to your feedback, so please do share any questions or comments.

Cheers,

Nick

PS Shout out to @chrismessina for introducing us to the community 👏