We are Tarek and Sam, co-founders of Layer, a web annotation tool that enables users to seamlessly share contextual and visual information with their team. During the development of our previous company, we faced many challenges while trying to effectively work together in a remote setting. We believe this is due to communication apps functioning at the wrong layer of abstraction. Today communication either happens in apps outside of our workspace like slack or in individual productivity apps like figma, notion, etc. which we believe at the wrong layer of abstraction. Our goal is to introduce native collaboration to all websites and web apps, transforming your browser into a multiplayer environment for your team; starting with annotations. We are excited to revive web annotations, which have a long history dating back to the early days of the web with Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web), as well as a feature in the world's first widely distributed web browser, Mosaic, which was co-founded by Marc Andreessen. He famously called it the "Big Missing Feature" when he invested in Genius. Our mission with Layer is to offer a fast, user-friendly, and intuitive tool that seamlessly integrates into your daily workflow and invites your collaborators to join you directly where you accomplish tasks. With Layer, you can annotate any web page, including documents and images, right in your browser. We are committed to creating a better of sharing information on the web and shaping the future of browser-based collaboration! Our ask: We would love for you to try Layer, that is now live, and give us your feedback. Tarek & Sam |