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.
Here’s an example of how Item (a design-first, AI native CRM) used Rivet to refine details in their UI.
Every software company has a growing list of polish issues that never get fixed.
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.
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.
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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.
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✏️ Want to just rant about design handoffs or your growing backlog? Send your worst story to sam@rivet.design