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Canva

Templates for the graphics around your product: social posts, banners, slides, screenshots.

1. Learn it

  • Not for building your app — for everything that sits beside it when you launch.
  • You start from a template that's already the right size, then swap the words and colours for yours.
  • The sizes matter more than the art: a launch banner that's cropped wrong looks careless.
  • Keep one brand colour and one font pair and your scrappy assets still look like a set.

Cost: Free tier; paid for brand kits and premium assets.

2. Practice it

Simulated — nothing real happens

Write the banner before you design it

Write the six words that would go on your launch banner, plus a one-line subtitle. No design yet.

3. Connect it

Real — your own account
  1. 1Sign up free at canva.com.
  2. 2Search the template size you need — 'Twitter header', 'Product Hunt gallery'.
  3. 3Replace the sample text with the words you wrote in practice.
Open Canva

MessyDev never signs you up, spends your money, or touches your accounts. You do that part.

4. Use it

Launch week: social banners, directory gallery images, pitch slides.

Honest alternatives

There is no single correct stack. Any of these would be a reasonable choice instead.

  • Figma
  • Photopea
  • Asking an image generator

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