ND Riot
ND Riot
A platform connecting independent comic creators and readers — and the first step toward creators negotiating with printers and vendors as a group. I founded it, designed the brand, and built it.
Founder · brand designer · full-stack developer (AI-assisted, with Claude Code) · 2026
- Product strategy
- Requirements
- Design system
- Brand
- Next.js
- Sanity CMS
- AI-assisted development
The problem
Independent comic creators work alone: finding readers, choosing conventions, and negotiating with printers one creator at a time. ND Riot gives them a focused place to be found, and a community that can eventually negotiate as a group.
What I did
- Gathered requirements from creators
- Established the brand and design system
- Prototyped, demoed, and refined
- Built the platform in Next.js and Sanity, deployed on Vercel and Cloudflare, working with Claude Code
Designed not to rank people
Discovery on ND Riot is user-directed: visible filters, a random hero, and no engagement-based ranking of creators. Nothing is inferred about what a reader 'should' see.
I'm also a user
I publish my own comics on ND Riot, so I test it from both sides.
TODO: early numbers (creators, titles, subscribers).