About Us

Sometimes the real treasure is the software you make along the way.

We’re Popover

Popover is an AI-first startup that wants to make it easier for people to plan their dream trips. We started building in 2025, and two things happened at once.

Moving fast, losing context

With new tooling like Claude Code, a small team, and a modern tech stack, we could move at a pace that didn’t seem possible a few years ago. Two people wrote 100,000 lines of code in three months.

But we were accumulating cognitive load just as fast—ironically, because we could build so quickly. It turns out you can ship at the speed of a much larger team, but you still have to know what it all does and how it works… and keep building. It doesn’t help that travel has a naturally complex and diverse domain model.

A familiar feeling

For Will, one of the founders, this wasn’t entirely new. He’d spent a decade leading a product with a development team of more than a hundred people and millions of users. We realized that we’d just accidentally speed-run a degree of complexity that’s usually managed by a whole product team.

Writing it down

Dot•requirements emerged as an internal solution to that problem. Even though we were just two people building under the same roof, we needed to write down the “what”—what the system is supposed to do and why. But we needed it to be lightweight and AI-native, to live in the IDE where we already worked, and to be inherently testable without any extra framework cruft.

So we built it. And it made our lives a lot easier.

A universal problem

Then it dawned on us: this is a pretty universal problem. Teams everywhere are getting to MVP faster than ever with AI’s help—but the cognitive load doesn’t go away. It only gets worse with scale. Every team eventually needs to be confident in what their software is supposed to do, not just what it currently does.

So we’re sharing it

Dot•requirements is that internal tool, turned outward. It’s the same system we use every day to build Popover—now available for any team that’s moving fast and needs to keep track of what they’re building and why.