We're thrilled to announce the launch of Spades Pro, our new business-focused plan that brings enhanced security, control, and support to development teams using our planning poker tool.

As Spades has grown, we've seen more development teams incorporate our tool into their core workflows. The Pro plan reflects our commitment to supporting businesses that need additional security and control while maintaining the streamlined, efficient experience that makes Spades unique.

The Pro plan is available starting today. Interested in learning more? Visit our pricing page or reach out to our team for a demonstration.

Spades Pro: Enterprise-Ready Planning Poker

We've been hard at work at several new features, and we're happy to share what been shipped over the past month! You'll notice a floating question mark on the very bottom of every page, on the right hand side. Click that to send us feedback, questions, or concerns - we'd love to hear how you're utilizing Spades, what's missing from the feature set, or anything else on your mind!

2.5.0 - AI Controls and Added Views

Hosts now have full control over who’s in their round. You can manage participants in real-time and remove users when necessary.

We’ve introduced the first wave of AI features designed to support deeper, more meaningful team conversations. From intelligent discussion prompts to implementation questions, these tools aim to make estimation not just faster — but more thoughtful too.

Speed through the app with our new command palette and enhanced keyboard shortcuts. Whether you’re selecting a view, navigating between issues, or submitting estimates, it’s all just a keystroke away.

This release also includes smoother loading states, streamlined navigation, and better observability — all designed to make the app more intuitive, reliable, and enjoyable to use.

In an effort to improve our database performance and gain the ability to remove our currenty utilization of Websockets which relies on maintaining a separate Express backend application, we now use Supabase for database hosting.

While initilly this change will have no noticeable affect on end users, it does open the door to faster Websocket communications which keep all round clients in sync as the host navigates between issues. Improvements to our realtime functionality will now follow the changes in sync with less latency and allow for easily displaying the active users within a round.

v1.7.3: Database Migrations 

Our initial launch includes viewing issue content and comments, as well as voting on issue effort and saving estimates on Linear issues. 

Spades Pro: Enterprise-Ready Planning Poker

2.5.0 - AI Controls and Added Views

2.0

v1.7.3: Database Migrations

1.0

Spades changelog

Spades Pro: Enterprise-Ready Planning Poker

2.5.0 - AI Controls and Added Views

2.0

v1.7.3: Database Migrations

1.0