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Rivet

Rivet helps product designers change software without coding.

Rivet is a visual tool that sits above a codebase. It's a bridge that lets product designers own any UI change to the software they work on. Designers use Rivet today to shortcut painful design handoffs and just make any visual change themselves. This saves time for designers and engineers and makes it radically easier to build software with great design and taste. This becomes the next design tool because it lets designers break out of static tools and prototype like frontend engineers. Use real components from your existing codebase to design remarkably complex interactions, and then ship it yourself.
Active Founders
Sam Gorman
Sam Gorman
Founder
I chase rare moments when design & engineering combine to make magical products. Was an early product engineer at Snorkel AI for the last 3 years as the company scaled to Series D. Led a team of engineers to build intuitive AI workflows for non-technical users and left as a top 15 contributor to the repo. At Stanford, I created my own major to study computer science & product design (I've been at this for years). Founded Peerlift, a scholarship search tool that grew to 100k+ users.
Company Launches
Rivet - Burn down your design backlog
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TLDR: Product designers own the look and feel of their app’s interface with Rivet’s visual AI tools. No more waiting for engineers. Point at any element in your live product, change it, and ship it yourself. Rivet translates precise design intent into clean, reviewable code you can merge.

→ Try Rivet today at rivet.design

Watch a customer polish their product with Rivet:

Here’s an example of how Item (a design-first, AI native CRM) used Rivet to refine details in their UI.

  1. Select any element on a web application. Use your styles to change it.

  1. Refine your UI. Change spacing, colors, layouts. Get it pixel-perfect.

  1. Ship it. When you’re done, Rivet pushes quality code to your repo just like a frontend engineer on your team would.

The problem: Design debt piles up, even at the best companies.

Every software company has a growing list of polish issues that never get fixed.

  • Broken loading states
  • Buttons that look wrong on mobile
  • Colors that don't match your app’s styles
  • Spacing that's off by 4px

Product designers live in these details, and they’ve been gated out of making real changes to real apps. Instead, they spend time crafting details that get lost when it comes to implementation.

Rivet helps designers own the quality of their interface, and frees up engineers to do more engineering work.

Why I built Rivet

I’m a repeat founder and former early product engineer at Snorkel AI. I owned AI products for non-technical users as Snorkel scaled to Series D over 3 years. I started my career as a product designer and built at the intersection of design & engineering for the last 7 years.

I built Rivet because I watched the work of brilliant designers get diluted. I think product designers today are like artists without a paintbrush. They have to ask others to paint for them instead. We should just give product designers a brush, and let them paint their masterpiece in code.

Designers → Start shipping today!

Are you a product designer?

🎨  Go to rivet.design and sign up

Not a designer? That’s great too!

Send rivet.design to your designer and let them start burning down your polish items

YC startups and design studios are already using Rivet to shortcut design handoffs and fix every UI polish item they can think of. Designers are shipping their own work. And engineers are getting their time back.

🟧 YC deal: We'll fast-track you off the waitlist & apply a YC discount

✏️ Want to just rant about design handoffs or your growing backlog? Send your worst story to sam@rivet.design

Rivet
Founded:2025
Batch:Fall 2025
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Primary Partner:Aaron Epstein