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The Gap
Product managers, product designers, content designers.
The last two years promised to let them in. All they had to do was open a terminal, learn some code, and find their own way across a pile of new tools. Learn a new language.
From A to PR
00 / About
In every company, the people closest to the product are the ones with no way into the code.
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Keeping up
And while they were still learning it, the pressure to move faster arrived anyway. Keeping up became their problem to solve, each of them paving their own route to the product.
You were handed the stones, but you still have a path to pave.
Spring is the way in
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The answer
No terminal, no code to learn, no new tool to try every week. One place, connected to your real codebase, your design system, and the policies that decide what good code looks like in your company. One place that already holds the context.
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The whole
picture
Which means the whole picture sits in one place too. The usability problems, the feature requests, the analytics, the real tickets. You start from those, work through specification and design, share the work with your team, and finish with a pull request carrying real code.
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Nothing left
behind
Spring connects to more than 40 of the tools you already work in. Figma, Linear, Jira, Notion, Intercom, Mixpanel and the rest. You give up none of your habits.
From A to PR.
Backed by the best
Why I started Spring
Fifteen years ago I started my career writing code. Six years in I moved to product, and I moved because of the people. Product strategy pulled at me far more than technical architecture ever did, and building something that serves people got to me in a way the engineering never did. High level strategy and problem solving were what caught me most. When everyone filed out and the technical meeting started, all I wanted was to follow the product people out of the room.
I did that at large companies and at startups, and got to know how a product gets built end to end.
What I never got used to as a product manager was the price of not writing the code any more. You know what the product should be. You can see it. And on the day it ships you’re on the bench, because the only people who go on the court are the developers. You hope it goes well, the way a parent hopes. From there you’ve lost control.
When I co-founded Formula as its CTO, reality changed and made us change with it. Until then we had written every line by hand. Then agents arrived, and development stopped being the bottleneck. We were. Engineers are faster, and everything around them is exactly as slow as it was. Designers and PMs are the bottleneck now.
An hour and a half after my co-founder and I agreed to close it, I had already started Spring. That’s where the name came from. It had been bubbling in me long enough, and it was time to let it out, and to breathe some new life into the way product work already happens.
I wrote about it on LinkedIn the same day, and the replies came from strangers. Designers, product managers, people whose management was shouting AI at them with nobody able to say which AI, or how they would know if it was working.
That is who Spring is for.
