Designing Clevero's no-code widget builder
Replacing engineering-built dashboards with a self-serve system, cutting customization requests to engineering by 75%.
PROJECT DETAILS
ROLE
I was the lead designer and developer for Found, designing and building it solo from scratch, owning everything from user research and ideation to a live, deployed app with a fully functioning product and landing page, shipped on Vercel using Claude Code.
CONTEXT
Found is a fully functioning AI-native Progressive Web App, designed and built end to end for my thesis project at Parsons School of Design. The app was also later showcased at Index China Town, and already has 19+ users on the day of release.
PROJECT
Social app, Location-based, Community discovery, Mobile
DURATION
8 weeks (2026)
TEAM
Riya (me!)
TOOLS
Claude Code, Supabase, Vercel, Figma
OVERVIEW
What is Found?
Found, a social platform that lets you share photos of inspirations you see on the street, where you saw it and why you found it inspiring. The app also allows users to follow friends or people whose taste users find inspiring.
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BACKGROUND & PROBLEM
Configuration over customization
Clevero is built on a single idea: everything in the platform is a record. Invoices, projects, contacts, backlog items — they all live in the same flexible data model, and every capability — CRM, project management, billing, scheduling — is a differently configured surface over that model. The pitch to customers is configuration over customization: shape the platform through the UI, not through code.
Dashboards were the exception. Every custom dashboard was built by engineers. A client wanted a chart of overdue invoices — that became a ticket, the ticket went into the engineering queue, and the client waited. For a platform that promised "configure it yourself," this was the most visible place where the promise broke.
I joined as Clevero's first in-house designer and took on making dashboards self-serve.
Digital Space
Your Space
SETUP & PROCESS
Shipped end-to-end with AI
Found is a solo build — I was the designer, the developer, and everything in between. The product is a Progressive Web App built with Claude Code, using Supabase as the database infrastructure and Vercel for deployment, with a dedicated marketing site alongside it.
The app itself is organized around three things:
Explore feed
Map-based GEO view
Posts that carry a photo, notes, location, and tags
Explore feed
Map-based GEO view
Posts
The brand and the interface were designed together: the FOUND. wordmark and the "for real life inspirations" voice set the tone the app follows.
