A design tool for people who aren't designers (my Canva escape)
I'm a solo founder, and I was spending way too much time in Canva.
Every post had to look good, and making something look good takes time I didn't have. The worst part was the repeating. I'd finish one design, then need it for Facebook, then Instagram, then in another language, rebuilding the layout by hand every time.
I just wanted to make one design and say "also do Facebook and Instagram, and translate it," then have it done.
So I built Ridvay. You describe what you need, get a finished design in seconds, then turn it into every format and language just by asking. AI makes the first design, you adjust it by chatting. No blank canvas, no dragging boxes.
It's for people who aren't designers but still need decent posts, banners and ads without losing an afternoon to each one.
I relaunched it in this form recently and I'm still early, so I'd value honest feedback from this crowd. What's confusing, what's missing, what would make you actually use it?
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This is a useful direction, especially because the pain is not really “design from scratch.”
It is the repeat-work problem: one idea becoming five formats, languages, and channels without losing half the afternoon.
The part I’d be careful with is who Ridvay is for first. “People who aren’t designers” is true, but it may be too broad for the first wedge.
I wouldn’t solve that loosely in the thread because the first-user choice changes the homepage, onboarding, and what feature should feel like the main hook.
Happy to put the tighter first-user positioning read in writing if useful — this is cleaner to do as a focused pass than as scattered thread feedback.