Building an Internal Tool Suite – Without Being a Developer

When I found myself spending hours in Figma manually creating charts for presentations, I decided to fix the problem instead of living with it. Using Claude Code and Cursor, I built a chart generator in a few days – despite having no traditional coding background.

That tool sparked a bigger idea: Why not build a collection of internal apps to automate repetitive work? The result is the SVDGV Hub, an internal tool suite now used daily by our entire 7-person team.

One example: Our Newsletter Builder converts Notion pages directly into formatted newsletters. What used to take 2-3 hours and required one specific person can now be done by anyone in 30 minutes. AI drafts the content, two clicks send it out.

The stack is simple – Next.js, shadcn/ui, Supabase, Vercel. The philosophy is simpler: ship fast, solve real problems, skip the perfectionism. New tools take 1-2 days to build. We launched with 6 apps in the first month, and the list keeps growing as the team identifies new opportunities.