Announcing our Series A-and the future of product development, today!

Ten years ago, pretty much all work of product teams was manual. Five years ago, bold teams started experimenting with smarter ways to do their jobs—but it still felt like a distant pipe dream. Fast forward to today, and that dream is reality. Not only that, the level of automation we’re seeing in the product world is far beyond the wildest imagination of even the biggest optimists.

When I started Supernova, I was hoping to see this one day—coming from my own frustrations with building software for over 20 years. I was so tired of the constant back-and-forth between designers, developers, and PMs, swimming in mundane tasks every day, not really focusing on what they truly love—being exceptional in their craft and channeling this creative energy into building the most amazing things. This is what the new craze promises, and the time feels right to finally deliver on it.

About the last 7 years...

Back in 2018, we launched Supernova as a tool to ease a single pain point: design-to-code handoffs. As an engineer, I’d lived the grind of translating designs into code every day, and after three long years of deep R&D, we built something that really worked—especially for solo creators who could be very flexible with their workflows and tech stacks, something the original platform required. It was a start, but when we joined Y Combinator in 2019, we learned something critical: speeding up one step wasn’t enough to deliver true value.

Teams needed all their data—design, code, and product details—in one place for this to truly come together. Why? Because for any team with an existing product, staying true to their established brand, design history, and existing code is essential. Our early tool worked well for new projects, but for established ones, it fell short—much like many tools today that excel at quick, standalone prototypes but struggle to integrate with the complexity of real-world workflows, legacy systems, and evolving projects.

So we started over with all the learnings in place. We rebuilt Supernova as a design systems platform, a single hub where design, code, and product data could live in sync, respecting what teams had already built. Shifting our focus to the underlying data really opened doors. Today, some of the most well-known companies in the world, like Paramount, Mozilla, and Skyscanner, use Supernova to stay aligned, build on their existing foundations, and focus on creating without getting stuck in repetitive tasks. Their feedback has shaped every step, showing us what it takes to support real, complex work.

When life gives you superpowers 🦸🏻, enjoy them!

For me as a founder, today is a very special day, seven years in the making—we are taking a huge leap to support the original vision where all boring, mundane work is gone, automated. Today, we are announcing Supernova Portal, which lets professional teams and companies move from a rough idea to delivery without the usual friction, keeping their design systems as the single source of truth throughout the entire process.

When I first tried the full power of the new Supernova, it felt beyond magical, sort of “wtf?!” moment—I just outlined a concept that I had in mind, had AI refine it in real time, generate a prototype, provide all specifications for my developers, and write proper tickets that break it down (or I could just give them the resulting code but hey, that’d be cheating, right?), and I almost let it create the business case just to validate the idea for the fun of it. It never broke my workflow, didn’t deviate from my brand or hallucinated something I would not do myself.

I knew at that point that what we built is a true new superpower, where individuals will now work like a full team and teams will move at completely unheard-of speeds. It is really the underlying data platform that unifies design, code, and everything else that makes this possible, enabling a future where product creation is fluid, cohesive, without bottlenecks, and driven by human creativity—no matter how complex the project or idea is.

And now, we fly 🚀 with more resources than ever before

To support our efforts in building this future, I am also excited to announce our $9.2M Series A round, led by Taiwania Capital and joined by J&T Ventures, Reflex Capital, KayaVC, with our existing investors and Y Combinator also participating in this round. It gives us the resources to bring our vision to more teams and push it further—from expanding our team, raising awareness of Supernova to new heights, to bringing even more wild ideas to life.

With all this, I want to extend my biggest thank you to everyone who has supported us so far, enabling us to get Supernova where it is now. How we build products is changing before our eyes, and we will push even harder to lead it unfold.

Back to changing the world,
Jiri