spf13labs

Small apps.
Big brains.

spf13 Labs is where Steve Francia, creator of Hugo and Cobra, builds focused apps that do one job brilliantly.

Meet the apps
Qrisp in the browser: a kitten photo turned into a scannable QR code, with style and look controls
Qrisp logo ✦ FLAVOR · PIXEL PUNCH

Your photo is the QR code.

Drop in a portrait, a logo, your cat. Qrisp weaves it into a print-ready code that still scans.

Web appAny browserFree to try
Coming soon
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Markd
✦ FLAVOR · ROUND TRIP

Speaks Markdown and human.

Paste from ChatGPT, get a clean doc. Paste from Word, get clean Markdown. Markd converts both ways without mangling a thing.

MacWindowsLocal-first
Coming soon
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Who's in the lab
Hugobuilds millions of websites
Cobrapowers Kubernetes, Docker and gh
200k+GitHub stars across his projects

One person, three decades of developer tools. Steve has shipped software at MongoDB, Docker and Google. spf13 Labs is where his own apps live: small, opinionated, and supported by the person who wrote them. The writing and talks live on spf13.com.

Lost a license, found a bug, or just want to say hi? Steve answers his own email.