[1][2][3] The company was founded in January 2006 by Scott Abel, Jay Hallberg, Greg Kattawar, and Francis Sullivan to build IT management software.

[2][4] Spiceworks is an online community where users can collaborate and seek advice from one another, and also engage in a marketplace to purchase IT-related services and products.

[6] The company's free proprietary software is written in Ruby on Rails,[7] and runs exclusively on Microsoft Windows.

[8] The software discovers IP-addressable devices and includes help desk functionality and an integrated knowledge base.

[9] The company was formed in January 2006 by Scott Abel, Jay Hallberg, Greg Kattawar and Francis Sullivan,[3] former executives at Motive.

[16] The company celebrated its tenth anniversary in January 2016 and announced plans to add 100 additional employees during the year.

[18] In addition to the layoffs, several employees in leadership positions at Spiceworks left the company to join former CEO Scott Abel in founding a new startup, Resly Labs.

[22] It focused on simplifying the process of taking inventory, monitoring networks, and generating reports for IT professionals at small and medium-sized businesses.

[1] A small percentage of its revenue is generated through purchases of IT products and services made through the Spiceworks platform.