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Most reading apps help you track books.
I wanted to build something that helps you experience them.
That's how Galaxy Library was born.
The idea started with a simple thought: every book leaves a mark on us. Some become memories, some become lessons, and some quietly shape who we are. Yet most reading apps reduce that journey to a progress bar and a number of pages read.
So I asked myself:
What if every book became a star in your personal universe?
Novella transforms reading into an immersive celestial experience where stories aren't stored on shelves—they live among the stars.
✨ A Galaxy Library where every book exists as a celestial body in your expanding universe.
📖 Immersive Reading View designed to keep distractions away and make every reading session feel calm and focused.
🌌 Constellation Progress Tracking that visualizes your reading journey as connected stars, showing how every completed book contributes to a larger story.
🔍 Cosmic Discovery Hub for finding new books, genres, and authors to explore.
✍️ Personal Reading Journal where readers can save notes, highlights, thoughts, and favorite quotes from every chapter.
🏆 Achievement System that celebrates milestones, reading streaks, and long-term goals.
📊 Insightful Reading Statistics including books completed, reading hours, yearly goals, and progress tracking.
👤 Personal Universe Profile that grows alongside your reading habits and achievements.
Preview: Galaxy Library
The goal wasn't to create another reading tracker.
The goal was to make reading feel magical again.
Built with a strong focus on visual storytelling, immersive UI design, and user experience exploration.
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Fr this challenge, I used Stitch to turn a simple idea into a working prototype in just a few minutes. I started with a prompt describing an AI companion for elderly users, and Stitch helped generate the initial screens and user flow, which I then refined and connected into a prototype.
I've actually used Stitch before on a few projects last year, so it was interesting coming back to it. One thing I noticed immediately was how much more capable it feels now. The experience is smoother, the outputs are more thoughtful, and it feels easier to move from an idea to something tangible.
My favorite part is how quickly it helps explore concepts without getting stuck on a blank canvas. It's not a replacement for design thinking, but it's a great tool for getting ideas out of your head and into a format you can test and improve.
Overall, I enjoyed using it, and it's definitely a tool I will be running back to.
Project Link:
AFTERCUBE — AI Visual Worlds From Raw Ideas
For the Google Stitch Challenge, I created AFTERCUBE — a dark cinematic AI visual studio that turns raw ideas into website concepts, brand systems, motion direction, and immersive digital worlds.
The idea was simple:
What if one rough prompt could become a complete visual direction?
Not just a layout.
Not just a dashboard.
A full world.
AFTERCUBE is designed as a premium creative engine where users can start with a raw idea and generate cinematic website concepts, visual identity direction, interface systems, brand atmospheres, featured world concepts, and motion-ready digital experiences.
The final landing page tells a clear story:
Raw idea → visual engine → generated worlds → start creating
Process
I spent around [add hours here] hours exploring, designing, breaking, rebuilding, and refining this concept.
This was not a one-shot design. I went through 20+ iterations before finding the final direction.
Some early versions felt too much like generic SaaS dashboards. Some sections looked like separate websites instead of one continuous experience. A few visual directions were too cluttered, too flat, or not premium enough.
So I kept stripping things back and rebuilding around one stronger visual language:
dark cinematic background
burnt-orange energy
oversized editorial typography
3D character and engine visuals
subtle grid texture
premium Framer-style spacing
animated interactions
strong section rhythm
The biggest challenge was keeping the page consistent while moving from hero to product explanation to showcase sections. I wanted the whole page to feel like one visual world, not random screens stitched together.
How I used Stitch
I used Stitch to rapidly explore different layouts, test visual directions, refine the brand system, and push the final landing page into a more polished prototype direction.
The workflow included:
Exploring multiple concepts and brand names
Testing different dark visual systems
Locking the final direction around AFTERCUBE
Building the cinematic hero section
Creating the Visual Engine section
Adding Featured Worlds as generated concept examples
Creating a final prompt-driven CTA
Adding motion ideas, hover states, glow interactions, and scroll animation direction
What I focused on
My goal was not to create another generic AI landing page.
I focused on:
strong first impression
cinematic art direction
bold typography
premium dark UI
orange energy system
clear product storytelling
interactive motion
visual consistency
a page that feels like a real creative AI product
Future direction
If I had more time, I would expand AFTERCUBE into a deeper product prototype with:
a full AI generation flow
additional inner product pages
more generated world examples
more custom 3D elements
animated world-building states
a detailed brand system page
export screens for Framer, Figma, and campaign assets
interactive prompt-to-world transitions
This version focuses on the core brand, landing page, and product story first. The next step would be turning it into a fuller interactive product experience.
Feedback on Stitch
Stitch was useful for fast ideation and visual exploration. It helped me test multiple directions quickly and move from rough concept to polished landing page much faster than starting from a blank canvas.
The hardest part was maintaining consistency across sections. Some outputs looked like separate pages, so I had to keep refining prompts around continuity, layout rhythm, spacing, and brand discipline.
Overall, Stitch was powerful for exploration, but the best results came from treating it like a creative partner — testing, correcting, refining, and pushing the design direction intentionally.
Final concept
AFTERCUBE is an AI visual studio for turning rough creative thoughts into cinematic digital worlds.
One prompt.
One engine.
A complete visual world.
premium
here's my submission for the @stitchbygoogle challenge 🌊
i built merch.so
the idea: instead of spending hours on canva or going back and forth with a designer, what if there was a site where you describe your merch, talk to an AI, get the exact print-ready file and send it straight to your designer?
that's merch.so
i spent 5+ hours building it and stitch did the heavy lifting. the UI came out clean, the animations were on point, pages actually feel alive as you move through them
color swatches that shift the whole page vibe. ai custom design studio. motion on every interaction
this is genuinely the future of building interfaces. faster than anything i've used before
https://stitch.withgoogle.com/projects/11752344657284248097
#GoogleStitch #BuiltWithStitch
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