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What is Multiplayer

Multiplayer Overview​

Multiplayer is a collaborative platform to build better distributed systems.

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Use Cases​

Integrate in Minutes, Not Days: Platform Notebooks simplify RESTful API integrations with no-code/low-code tools, accelerating development and collaboration with customers and partners.

Debug Smarter, Not Harder: The Platform Debugger captures every detail—frontend screens, backend traces, logs, and metrics—so you can reproduce and resolve bugs in record time, keeping your customers happy.

Code More, Document Less: Auto-Documentation automatically generates always-accurate system docs—architecture, APIs, dependencies, and flows—so your team stays aligned and spends less time on manual updates.

Multiplayer is for you if...​

(1) You work on complex distributed systems.

(2) You manage a distributed engineering team.

(3) You are frustrated by these pain points:

  • Partner Integration Bottlenecks. When partners try integrating with your platform, they hit walls: expired test credentials, unclear samples, and no way to validate workflows end-to-end. Simple config issues become weeks-long email chains, delaying launches and straining engineering resources.

  • Untested API Changes. Your team updates an API, but outdated Postman collections and docs cause partners to build against the wrong specs. Production breaks, forcing rollbacks while customers face outages.

  • Disconnected Testing. QA writes integration tests in isolation, developers build features without real test cases, and CI/CD runs incomplete validations. Bugs slip through, requiring costly hotfixes post-launch.

  • Crises During Critical Outages. Engineers scramble across fragmented monitoring tools (logs, traces, metrics) to reconstruct failures, while business-critical systems remain down. Stakeholders demand timelines, but teams lack the visibility to diagnose issues quickly—prolonging outages and eroding customer trust.

  • The Ghost in the Machine. Intermittent bugs surface only under rare conditions (specific data inputs or timing), evading standard monitoring. Engineers waste days instrumenting debug logs to reproduce the issue, while production performance suffers and customers encounter unresolved errors.

  • Black Box Backend Escalations. Support teams escalate issues across multiple engineering groups because their tools lack backend visibility. Frontend logs show symptoms (e.g., "500 errors") but not root causes—triggering cross-team blame cycles while customer complaints mount.

  • Overhead Maintaining Documentation. Your team invests considerable effort in keeping system documentation and architecture diagrams in sync with the actual systems. And even then, architectural drift remains a problem and documentation is fragmented with multiple sources of knowledge (Jira, GitHub, Confluence, Slack, Notion, Google Docs, their coworker’s brains, etc.).

  • System Design Alignment Challenges. Your team struggles to achieve consensus on system design before jumping into code. This lack of collaboration and planning affects other stakeholders as well (Developers, Architects, QA, DevOps, PMs, etc.) and causes errors, unnecessary rework, issues with implementation, and the accumulation of Architectural Technical Debt due to overlooked system impacts.

Full list of Multiplayer Features​

Multiplayer is packed with features designed to tackle the complexities of system design and architecture documentation head-on.

Roadmap​

Here are some of the features on our roadmap. If you’re interested in a particular feature send us a note - this will help us prioritize what you need the most!

  • AI assistant for system design
  • API design & management
  • Network & sequence diagrams
  • Export your platform, including all your metadata, into a GIT repo
  • Integrate with Jira and Confluence, to embed your diagrams and deep session replays
  • Self hosting

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