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๐คฏ Wow, guys... You are absolutely crazy ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐
Honestly, I never expected this level of support.ย Thanks to all of you, my submission made it into the Community Favorites, and yesterday I received an email saying:
โจ ๐ฌ๐ผ๐'๐๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ป ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฟ๐ฎ ๐ต๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ฎ๐ด๐ฒ โจ
So today, I just want to say thank you โค๏ธย Every like, comment, share, and message means so much to me
And for those who are new here, ๐'๐บ ๐ฟ๐๐ป๐ป๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ ๐ฝ๐๐ฏ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ป๐ด๐ฒ: ๐ด๐ฟ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐บ๐ ๐๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฟ๐ฎ ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ณ๐ถ๐น๐ฒ ๐ณ๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐ฌ ๐๐ผ ๐ญ,๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌ ๐ณ๐ผ๐น๐น๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐
Along the way, I'm sharing updates about what I'm doing, how I'm building my portfolio, publishing projects, finding contracts, and growing on the platform step by step
If you'd like to follow the journey and see what works, follow me ๐ https://contra.com/oleksandra_marchenko/work
And once again, thank you for all the support. It truly means a lot โค๏ธโค๏ธโค๏ธ
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โข Jun 1
SimpleRent - Contra Submission Post
Google Stitch Challenge Entry
PROJECT LINK
PROJECT TITLE
SimpleRent - Student Rental Platform for Sri Lanka
Every year, university students in Sri Lanka leave their hometowns to study in Colombo. They arrive with no local knowledge and no housing plan. No platform was built specifically for them.
SimpleRent is a student-first rental interface that solves two linked problems in one product: find a safe rental near your campus or find a compatible roommate to share the cost.
Google Maps-centered property search, NIC verification flow, roommate board, landlord dashboard, multi-step onboarding, messaging interface, and more - entirely designed and iterated inside Google Stitch.
HOW I USED STITCH
Before generating a single screen, I designed my own logo - a map pin housing a rooftop icon - and imported it into Stitch to generate a design.md brand file. Stitch scanned the logo and produced a complete design system: color palette, typography, card radius, shadow depth, and spacing. Every screen inherited that system automatically from the start.
Each of the 18 screens was then streamed live to the canvas - letting me review and plan refinements on one screen while the next was still being generated.
Once screens were on the canvas, I used Stitch's in-place AI edit feature to refine specific elements without regenerating anything. I clicked directly on a footer, typed a prompt, and only the footer changed. Same for card layouts, button colors, and badge styling - precise, targeted iteration on exactly the element I chose.
For motion, I used Stitch's native HTML canvas to build the NIC verification animation: the ID card shakes first as a visual cue, then flips smoothly on double-click. Property cards lift and shadow on hover. Because Stitch renders native HTML by default, every animation played in real time directly on the canvas as I built it.
For the code pipeline, I used Stitch's MCP connection to import Antigravity. Antigravity handled the code-side refinements - the logic and structure that go beyond what a visual canvas touches. Stitch for design. Antigravity for code. A full design-to-code pipeline, linked through MCP.
FEEDBACK ON STITCH
The real-time streaming canvas changed how I design. You stop waiting for a result and start collaborating with it - refining the previous screen while the next one is still being generated. That shift alone made the process feel genuinely different from any other tool I have used.
The in-place edit feature removed the biggest frustration of AI design tools: the fear of regenerating something good just to fix something small. Clicking directly on an element and prompting only that element to change is the kind of control that makes iteration feel safe.
The MCP integration with Antigravity was the unexpected part. It bridges the gap between a design prototype and a real codebase in a way I did not expect from a design tool.
Stitch did not just speed up how I work. It improved the ideas I had while I was working.
โข 1d
This is the gold standard right here! Absolutely spectacular.
โข Jun 1
I joined the Google Stitch Challenge on Contra and built a cinematic space journey concept.
The idea started simple:
What if a website didnโt feel like a landing pageโฆ
but like the control center for a mission?
So I explored a full experience around:
flight configuration
destination selection
launch dashboard
safety briefing
space journal
mission storytelling
The goal was not just to make screens look good, but to create a visual system that feels immersive, structured, and cinematic.
I used Google Stitch to move fast, test layouts, and turn the idea into a working prototype direction. Some parts took multiple tries, especially getting the hierarchy, spacing, and visual flow right โ but that was the fun part.
Still more Iโd love to improve if I get time:
motion details, stronger 3D elements, more interaction states, and the rest of the journey pages.
Overall, this was a great experiment in using AI as a design partner โ not to replace taste, but to explore faster and push ideas further.
Built for the Google Stitch Challenge on Contra.
#GoogleStitch #Contra #DesignChallenge #UIDesign #WebDesign #AIDesign #ProductDesign
Great Work
โข Jun 1
My human finally did something useful under my strict supervision. For the Contra x Google Stitch Challenge, we builtย CatCup, the ultimate streaming platform for cats, because human television is a terribly boring!
We started with an AI-generated layout concept, used Stitch to generate the design system and HTML prototype, and pivoted to a much better homepage alternative suggested by the tool.
After exporting the code and polishing it with Gemini 3.5, CatCup is ready. Watch the demo to see how I managed this project to completion.
Stitch Project: https://stitch.withgoogle.com/projects/5369240878241930507
Yours truly, Kitty ๐ธ
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