{"id":94987,"title":"Rivet - Burn down your design backlog","tagline":"Product designers use Rivet to own the UI of their codebase. ","body":"**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.\n\n# [→ Try Rivet today at rivet.design](https://rivet.design)\n\n# **Watch a customer polish their product with Rivet:**\n\nHere’s an example of how [Item](https://www.item.app/) (a design-first, AI native CRM) used Rivet to refine details in their UI.\n\n1. **Select any element** on a web application. Use your styles to change it.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=94987\u0026key=user_uploads/206350/344678ec-87c2-4928-a80d-fed1f623d329)\n\n2. **Refine your UI**. Change spacing, colors, layouts. Get it pixel-perfect.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=94987\u0026key=user_uploads/206350/6d172766-1402-44fa-952a-9d3d5dd067ae)\n\n3. **Ship it.** When you’re done, Rivet pushes quality code to your repo just like a frontend engineer on your team would.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=94987\u0026key=user_uploads/206350/2da40da6-c814-4bb7-90d3-396c4995a894)\n\n# **The problem: Design debt piles up, even at the best companies.**\n\nEvery software company has a growing list of polish issues that never get fixed.\n\n* Broken loading states\n* Buttons that look wrong on mobile\n* Colors that don't match your app’s styles\n* Spacing that's off by 4px\n\nProduct 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.\n\nRivet helps designers own the quality of their interface, and frees up engineers to do more engineering work.\n\n## **Why I built Rivet**\n\nI’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 \u0026 engineering for the last 7 years.\n\nI 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.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=94987\u0026key=user_uploads/206350/c566632e-8fc8-40c4-9d4c-a867bbfaa557)\n\n# **Designers → Start shipping today!**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=94987\u0026key=user_uploads/206350/4616fcce-815a-4ee8-b1d4-885386e67fe9)\n\n**Are you a product designer?** \n\n# **🎨  [Go to rivet.design and sign up](https://rivet.design)**\n\n**Not a designer? That’s great too!**\n\nSend [rivet.design](https://rivet.design) to your designer and let them start burning down your polish items\n\nYC 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.\n\n🟧 **YC deal:** We'll fast-track you off the waitlist \u0026 apply a YC discount\n\n✏️ Want to just rant about design handoffs or your growing backlog? Send your worst story to [sam@rivet.design](mailto:sam@rivet.design)","slug":"Oi3-rivet-burn-down-your-design-backlog","created_at":"2025-10-29T01:26:52.491Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T06:03:04.139Z","total_vote_count":48,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Oi3-rivet-burn-down-your-design-backlog","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=94987\u0026key=user_uploads/206350/4616fcce-815a-4ee8-b1d4-885386e67fe9","company":{"id":31013,"name":"Rivet","slug":"rivet-design","url":"https://rivet.design/","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/27852a72a2c3864e7f9b2c7273ec39951f3e8d68.png","batch":"Fall 2025","industry":"B2B","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Design","Design Tools","AI"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/31013"}}