Thenga’s studio + yard — experiments

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ClickUp for Zendesk

Strivelabs · micro SaaS

ClickUp inside the Zendesk sidebar. Live on the Zendesk Marketplace, with paying customers.

What it is

One of two micro SaaS apps we built at Strivelabs, still running with customers.
I owned the client side, design to prod, as a design engineer.

Tricky bits

A sidebar-sized viewport, holding huge volumes of data.
Intuitive in a tiny frame meant infinite scroll and progressive loading.
An onboarding tour that points at things without breaking anyone’s calm.
Subscriptions on Paddle: we own the payments, not Zendesk.

Found inside

Small viewports make every pixel argue for its place.
A good tour guides and then gets out of the way.

Zendesk Marketplace

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monday.com for Zendesk

Strivelabs · micro SaaS

The sibling app: monday.com boards next to Zendesk tickets. Live, with customers.

What it is

Built alongside the ClickUp app, on the same foundations.
I owned the client side here too, design to prod.

Tricky bits

Same small sidebar frame, a different product’s data model.
Onboarding tour wired with React Joyride: delightful, never irritating.
Paddle subscriptions, handled on our side.

Found inside

The second app goes twice as fast when the first one’s bones are right.

Zendesk Marketplace

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Mardi AI

Strivelabs · standalone product

A marketing digital assistant, built as its own product. It lives on as an agent in Strive.

What it was

Our first go at a standalone product at Strivelabs.
I was there from ideation to prod, prototype to shipped UI.

Where it went

We pivoted from product to platform.
Mardi is now a negative keyword analyser agent workflow in Strive, tightly tied into chat.

Found inside

Auth, infra, pricing: shipping a whole product was a joy in itself.
Designing for marketers as a team of engineers taught us a lot.

The final version was easily 3–4x better than this prototype. Sadly, the domain had to go.

Early prototype

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Miro × Freshdesk

Freshworks · my first weeks

A simple Miro integration for Freshdesk, built in my early days at Freshworks.

What it was

A demo project, never published to the marketplace.
My way into the platform I was about to join: the Freshworks Marketplace.

Found inside

Building one small app is the fastest way to learn a platform’s edges.

Code on GitHub

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GrooveHQ for Zoho Cliq

Zoho · Cliq extension

A helpdesk extension that brought GrooveHQ into Zoho Cliq.

What it was

A Zoho Cliq extension for GrooveHQ, the helpdesk software.
Built during my stint as a marketplace apps developer at Zoho, in Zoho Deluge.

Found inside

My first taste of building on someone else’s platform.

Slides

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LinkedIn for Zoho Cliq

Zoho · Cliq extension

Simplifying professional sharing, as an extension for Zoho Cliq.

What it was

A Zoho Cliq extension to make professional sharing simpler.
Built alongside the GrooveHQ one, in Zoho Deluge.

Found inside

Small extensions teach you a lot about other people’s APIs.

Slides

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Accetoss

ACGCET open source community

A home for my college’s open source community. For friends, by friends.

Why

I found open source late in college, on my own, and felt I’d missed a whole ecosystem.
So after college I ran a small bootcamp for juniors in my network.

What we did

Featured a few of their projects on the site.
Ran a Git bootcamp to get them started.
Helped a few take their projects live, like the ISC media foundation site.

Found inside

Starting a community is easy. Keeping it passed down is the hard part.

It didn’t quite inspire them to keep it going, but it’s still live, under my college’s name on GitHub.

Accetoss Git bootcamp videos A project we took live

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nutro-components

College, with a friend · npm

An open source component library of our favourite UI inspirations, plus docs.

What it is

Two UI engineers who lived with components every day: observing, admiring, collecting.
So we turned our inspirations into a collectible library, to learn, look back on, and use ourselves.
nutro-docs shows how to use each one.

Found inside

How the npm ecosystem works, end to end.
What building as a team feels like, long before a job.

Don’t look for download stats. We never aimed for any.

npm nutro-docs

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Template baker

Right after college

Paste your post’s words, get a ready-to-share poster or slide. Built in one night.

What it was

The person running Maker’s Tribe needed reusable post templates, fast.
Type the wording, get a finished poster or slide instantly.

Found inside

Today it’s one prompt away. Back then, before LLMs, it was a fun all-nighter.

Template baker

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Quickfix

College, a team of three

A tiny venture connecting local hardware and software fixers with the people around our college.

Why

Friends were already fixing hardware and software around campus, as a service.
We wanted a wider network and more work for them.

The team

One on the logo and brand, one pitching and marketing, me building the app end to end.
Ideation to a live app, as three friends.

Quickfix illustration: a mechanic leaning on a giant wrench beside an orange Quick Fix van, with a second mechanic waving from the driver’s seat.

Found inside

Running a thing, not just building it. Those lessons still give me chills.

It lived on Heroku, got suspended, and the code went missing along the way.

MoonshotSlides

PenaltyVaultz

College · final year project

A decentralised app on Ethereum, with a smart contract written in Solidity.

Why

In my final year I’d just discovered bitcoin, decentralised networks and dapps.
So I wanted to try building something on the Ethereum network myself.

Found inside

Building with a brand-new tech is the fastest way to understand it.

Slides

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ACCETOSA

College · early days · WordPress

A WordPress portal to bridge the gap between students and the alumni network.

What it was

Built before I’d learned to code or anything about the web.
I wanted to build something, found out WordPress existed, and made this portal.

Found inside

You don’t need to know how to code to start building.

ACCETOSA

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Marigameo

College · first year · Wix

My very first blog, built on Wix while I was trying out website builders.

What it was

Built in my first year, back when I was experimenting with website builders.
The UI is super embarrassing to look at now.

Found inside

It’s special anyway: this is where I discovered my love for writing.

The blog

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economize.cloud

Freelance · early stage

Interfaces for multi-cloud cost and infra, built with the founders in the early days.

What I worked on

Heavy, data-centric modules, in a Vue-centric stack.
Complex charts and visualisations to play with.
A crash course in cloud, multi-cloud, costs and infra.

Found inside

Straight out of college, the learning curve was wild. Super grateful for the chance.

They’ve come a long way since, so today’s UI isn’t the one I built. Always rooting for them.

economize.cloud

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Gettr & c4scale

Freelance · consultancy website

Website work for a consultancy, back before LLMs could build a site for you.

What it was

Helped build the consultancy’s website, as a college student.
These are the versions I rolled out.

Found inside

Consulting wasn’t my forte then, so I didn’t take on client projects after this.
Still super happy the business is running today.

Super embarrassing to look at now. Excuse me, it was rolled out by a college student.

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