Glide is a document editor that makes converting product specs into technical designs faster and more collaborative. It improves the process by integrating with your code and using AI to generate a first pass, explain decisions, and explore alternatives.
Hi Product Hunt! We’re excited to introduce you to our design doc editor, Glide. Why design docs, you might be asking? Mainly because on complex software projects, technical design docs are a key communication tool between Product and Engineering. They define the scope of changes, give a rough sense of the effort required, and provide a platform for exchanging feedback.
This work helps ensure all product goals are met and avoids wasted effort on approaches that don’t work or are more complex than expected. Unfortunately, producing these write-ups is manual and time-consuming, requiring switching between typing in Confluence, searching on GitHub, and drawing on a whiteboard. Even worse, updating these documents with the latest product thinking and code being written is so tedious that every organization we’ve talked to admits their designs are outdated before the feature is even shipped.
But, you might be wondering, can’t we get around all this by telling GPT-4o to write the code? We started out building a product that does precisely this. It turns out that most people (including us) don’t write a complete description of the solution they want on the first pass. Without this “solution description” (basically a design doc), LLMs don’t do a good job. So, by getting good at making design docs, we’re laying the groundwork for the product's next iteration that handles end-to-end code generation.
We would love to speak to you if you run a software development team and want to improve your design doc process! This will involve one intro call, where we’d like to learn more about your business, so we can tailor a 14-day free trial to your organization to evaluate Glide. Book some time here: https://calendly.com/d/ckbv-ms3-...
Seems like an important tool so devs can focus their efforts on critical thinking tasks. I'd be really interested in a side by side study - give two devs the same task and see how much faster and more thorough the Glide's dev work is! Congratulations on the launch Agentic Labs!
@isabella_reed This is a great idea! We've been considering ways to demonstrate the ROI for teams using the product. I think also figuring out how to factor in the time saved by Engineering Managers and Product Managers on improved communication is also key!
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