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Startfrom 2.0 is live. It's our template library: finished websites designed at Apollo Studio, available as a Framer project, an Astro theme or a Next.js app.
Each template page shows what you get and runs the live demo in the page. Some templates are free.
Keeping content separate from layout would make the Astro and Next.js versions easier to customise. Do they share a content schema, or does each template have its own setup?
atro and next.js are in the same bundle
Got it, both versions come together. Is the copy edited in a shared content file, or separately in each app?
i think you can jsut ask claude to edit copy
thanks, that was the idea!
nice work
thanks!
Amazing work🔥👏👏
thank you!
Amazing work
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This is beautiful
thanks!
its really Great..
thanks!
Nice move making the templates available across Framer, Astro, and Next.js. Great flexibility for developers.
Having the same template as Framer, Astro or Next.js is super handy. Running the live demo right on the page is a great idea too, way better than static previews
Looking tremendous
Wow the video and layouts are all awesome! 👏
That's really incredible temple specially 3D icons and motion graphics that's great Alex 🔥🔥🎉🎉
So clean! Really nice work on this.
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So excited to see Creative Intelligence 2026 by @Contra Labs out in the world!
At @Heed Collective , we had the pleasure of designing both the website and the report. We’re incredibly grateful for this collaboration!
Our creative exploration started with a question:
What does Creative Intelligence mean today?
We believe it lives at the intersection of creativity and analysis, imagination and insight.
We translated this into a visual story that begins in space — vast, dreamy, full of possibility — and gradually moves closer to Earth, grounding imagination in something tangible and human.
Huge congrats to the whole team, @Erin Horner, @Ben Huffman, @Mark Vassilevskiy, @Alex Karpodinis, @Stacy · Heed Collective, @Heed Collective , and the entire @Contra Labs team 👏
Incredible work, congrats!
"High-Performance Creative Web Exploration"
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WHAT I WAS TESTING:
I focused on two core engineering benchmarks:
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THE TECHNICAL SIDE:
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WHAT I LEARNED:
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TRY IT YOURSELF:
The live build is deployed on Netlify. Open it in your browser, test the controls, and observe the render response times.
If you are building high-performance 3D, physics, or creative web systems and want to collaborate, reach out here on Contra.
Dynamic or static?
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WHAT I WAS TESTING:
I focused on two core engineering benchmarks:
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WHAT I LEARNED:
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TRY IT YOURSELF:
The live build is deployed on Netlify. Open it in your browser, test the controls, and observe the render response times.
If you are building high-performance 3D, physics, or creative web systems and want to collaborate, reach out here on Contra.
Really nice map detail
