As a designer, my case studies took 8 hours. I built Shovra to make them take seconds!
Every designer needs a strong portfolio to win work, but we rarely have time to build one. So our best projects stay hidden, shown once in a meeting if at
Hey IH 👋
I'm Ceren, a product designer, and this is my first post here. I want to build Shovra in public with you, so let me start with the honest reason it exists.
Every designer knows this truth: your next job comes from your portfolio. Clients and studios hire what they can see. But the work of building that portfolio takes time we almost never have, especially with a full-time job and long hours.
So our best projects stay hidden. I've watched designers (myself included) open a raw Figma file in a client meeting and try to talk through it, because there was never time to turn it into something presentable. And too often, that work doesn't win the job. Not because it isn't good, but because no one ever saw its real value.
That gap is the whole reason Shovra exists.
For me, the math was brutal. One case study meant paying for a handful of tools, hunting for the right mockups, slicing my long design pages into sections by hand, and composing every screen and device one by one. A multi-page project took me around 8 hours. So most of my work never made it to my portfolio at all.
Shovra fixes that. You drop your designs in, even one long full-page scroll, and it comes back as a finished case study in seconds. No mockup hunting. No subscriptions to five different tools. No slicing and placing by hand. It pairs web, mobile and tablet into one story and keeps your exact design untouched, so it stays safe for client work. Then it's ready for Dribbble, Behance, Upwork or your own site.
What took me 8 hours now takes seconds. Which means the work finally gets shown, and finally gets a fair shot at winning the next project.
It's early, and I'd love this community's eyes on it as I build:
→ Have you ever lost a job or client simply because your portfolio wasn't ready in time?
→ If you've tried tools for this before, what made you quit them?
I'll keep posting here as it grows, the wins and the ugly parts. Thanks for reading 🙏
