Replacing spec-driven development with just facts
Details
- External ID
- 48008906
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- Replacing spec-driven development with just facts
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 4, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4168012924071082
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I had a lot of issues with spec-driven approaches, agents are too readily producing fluff, large projects have so many specs agents start making mistakes maintaining them. There's a constant consistency tax.In the end every spec is just a bunch of facts, so I decided to leave that and throw away everything else while making it friendlier for agentic use.Introducing facts - skills and CLI for agents to use facts-driven development. https://github.com/av/facts
Enrichment
- Theme
- browser automation and scraping for AI
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- fact-driven development approach
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a lightweight methodology and prompt/context manager that stores unstructured or atomic project facts instead of formal specs, easily built with a CLI or simple script with an LLM wrapper.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Lack of proof that approach works with real projects, Need to see concrete examples of spec vs facts comparison, Unclear why agents understand facts better than traditional specs
Feature requests: Example project showing start-to-finish workflow, Visual comparison of friendly spec format vs traditional specs, Documentation on agent reasoning differences between formats
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 19 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #12 of 20 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 115 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Spec27 · hn · 2026-04-30 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.35
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- Logic · ph · 2026-04-27 · 274 upvotes · similarity 0.33
- easyspecs.ai · ph · 2026-09-11 · 153 upvotes · similarity 0.32
- CLIs Are All You Need for Agents · hn · 2026-01-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.32
- Praxis, my personal take on Compound Engineering with AI · hn · 2026-02-24 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.32
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- No other launches for this product.
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