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Why Workspaces are Dead – The Rise of Productspaces
Charles Polanco
Head of Product
Workspaces Are Dead. They Just Don’t Know It Yet.
Your company still has a workspace. That’s cute. You’re still organizing tasks, assigning work, and maybe—just maybe—shipping a product. But let’s be honest: workspaces weren’t built for product teams. They were built for office work, for meetings, for looking busy.
Building a product? That’s different. It’s messy, iterative, unpredictable. It’s solving problems in real time, not updating a task that’s been sitting in “In Progress” for six weeks. Workspaces weren’t made for this.
That’s why they’re dead.
The Problem with Workspaces
Look at any great product team. Do they win by managing tasks? No. They win by spotting issues early, adapting fast, and keeping momentum. They don’t need another tool to remind them they’re behind schedule—they need something to help them fix what’s slowing them down.
Workspaces don’t do that.
- They encourage passivity.
- They create silos.
- They track, but don’t help teams move faster.
And so product teams do what they always do: they duct tape together a solution. Slack for communication. Jira for tracking. Zoom for meetings. Trello for organizing. Maybe a Notion doc, just in case.
And somehow, shipping a product becomes more about managing tools than building something great.
Enter Productspaces
A Productspace is not a workspace. It’s not another project management tool. It’s a live, evolving environment where products get built.
It’s where product vision lives—not buried in a document no one reads.
It’s where blockers surface in real time—not in a meeting two weeks later.
It’s where issues get fixed, not just reported. Because status updates don’t ship products—solving problems does.
Productspaces don’t just track work. They drive execution. They replace scattered tools, cut through the noise, and make sure the right people know what’s happening, when it matters.
Slack Killed Email. Wallow Kills Workspaces.
Slack made work communication faster. It didn’t replace email—it made it obsolete.
Wallow is doing the same for product teams.
No more juggling five tools.
No more friction between ideas and execution.
No more wondering why the roadmap never reflects reality.
Because when every issue, every blocker, every milestone is in one Productspace—not across five apps—teams move faster.
And speed wins.
The Future Is Productspaces
Workspaces had their moment. Now, it’s time to build.
No more scattered tools.
No more task-tracking purgatory.
Just execution, momentum, and products that ship faster.
The future of product development starts now.