Hey HN!

My friend and I made and just launched Speq: A collaborative web-based repository for your product's specification. It's a tool that peppers you with questions about your new project until it (and you) truly understand what you are trying to build. Then we put everything together into a comprehensive Speq (see an actual example here: https://getspeq.com/#anatomy) that you can then turn into a PRD, share with colleagues to evaluate and collaborate on, or hand off to an agent to build via MCP.

We both left our Fortune 500 Eng Leadership roles last year in hopes of spending more time with family and getting experience with AI projects. Having spent the majority of our 18+ year careers cranking out feature work at a high-velocity, we wanted to take a stab at fixing the "SDLC". Little did we know that things would move so fast over the next several months that the SDLC as we knew it was on the brink of being totally unrecognizable. We spent a few months contemplating what we could build that would be durable in this new era where the rules are being rewritten, and the big model companies are Sherlocking products left and right.

We stumbled upon GH's SpecKit late last year and fell in love with the concept. It felt like a refreshing approach to an age-old problem. We liked a lot of what SpecKit did, but struggled with the idea of keeping everything in MD and in the repo. Our experience working with product partners and designers led us to believe that a web-based system that allowed for collaboration while still taking advantage of LLM intelligence might be a better solution. So we took the plunge and built what we wished we could have had over the last several years: a collaborative tool that owns and shares the source of truth for your product's requirements to anyone or anything that needs it.

We had no idea what the market conditions would be like when our product was ready to launch, but it actually feels like really good timing. As Tibo (Codex lead) said on X tonight, "the value of good instructions has never been higher" (https://x.com/thsottiaux/status/2050811900062286168?s=20), and that is what Speq is all about.

Speq helps you define exactly what you want to build (defining your vision, navigation flow, product requirements, logic, and tech requirements) and makes it really easy to share with agents and people alike. And it's really easy to edit, version, and evolve the Speq over time as well. When you couple this with bleeding-edge AI models that are insanely great at building things now, you can get more work done, and with better quality, than we ever could have dreamed of.

So please give it a try! Thanks to Microsoft's generous support, the tool is free for the time being. We'd love to hear thoughts and feedback, and to make this a more valuable tool for everyone.

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