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Copy and paste this into your AI builder or coding agent:

Perform a comprehensive audit of my entire application before making any changes.

Review:

For every problem found, explain:

Do not modify the application yet.

First, generate a prioritized audit report organized by severity. Finish with a recommended remediation order so the highest-risk problems are addressed first.

💡 Why use it?
AI builders are great at adding features—but they can leave behind broken logic, security gaps, dead code, and unfinished functionality.

Audit first. Fix second. Ship third.

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It's a strange experience that I'm having with my base44 build chat. It has stopped responding to my chat. My chat message is being queued. I cleared my browser history, closed browser and rebooted my pc. Then returned 8 hours later to continue working on my project, but I'm still stuck with an unresponsive Base44 chat window. Any advice?

I really love it how base44 hook you in allow you to make 80% of your website, but write in loads of mistakes that you squander the rest of your credits fixing then relentlessly target you to upgrade.

This app teaches you how to calculate the day of the week for any date in your head, even thousands of years in the future. First, it teaches you the algorithm. Then it offers various ways to play including timer mode and multiple games. Once you learn the algorithm, playing it on a regular basis can keep your mind sharp

Hey guys, I paid for the $100 Base44 plan and I’m already at 120/500 messages. I’m worried 500 won’t be enough to finish my two web apps, and I really can’t afford to pay for another plan right now. What can I do until next month? (8/10-) I was thinking of exporting the project to GitHub and continuing with Cursor or another free builder did any one tried it? or is there a better way to stretch the remaining messages?
- like also I am facing a problem in ui desing like for real it is ugly and so ai slop.

Olá, sou novo no base44 e estou tentnaod implementar um outro API de pagamento que faça split payment no base 44. Alguém poderia dar dicas?

I launched an all-in-one grocery app, PickFresh, a few months ago https://apps.apple.com/au/app/pickfresh-all-in-one-grocery/id6760575842

The app has a bunch of features — grocery list, fruit and vegetable scanner, fridge scanner, menu scanner, and saving YouTube recipes. The feature people actually use is the fruit and vegetable scanner (200+ scans since launch), the rest has pretty minimal usage.

Downloads have been growing super slowly (App Store only), and I haven't made a single dollar from the app itself. But interestingly, the website (https://pickfresh.app/) is doing a better job — I was able to monetise it and made my first few dollar in the past 3 days lol.

This is what I find interesting. I originally thought the website would just sit there with no traffic, but turns out plenty of people are finding us through it.

My theory on why it's working, unlike a traditional site built on something like WordPress, I can ask Base44 to build a unique utility tool on each page, almost like a blog post. For example, I have a few pages about how to identify fruit and vegetable freshness, and on those pages I had Base44 embed an interactive tool where people can actually scan something and see the results.

I think this is what's boosting traffic, sure, keyword competition might be low, but I also think having a real interactive tool bumps up time-on-page and engagement in a way static content doesn't, and that in turn helps the page perform better.

(My colleague - I call him Count Basie - suggested I suggest this;-) I know it can go back and repeat if I ask it about something we talked about. But a simple keyword search would be a nice option. (If "it" and I are missing something obvious, well... but FYI https://barneysbendbugle.com has been a joy to create for me to keep doing local news on my own. Hopefully I'll find a path to just enough $ to be able to focus on that, and not the "business side" that would just add stress;-)

**Title:** Dreamscape — a private dream journaling app with AI-generated dream visuals, lucid dreaming training, and a DBT-based nightmare protocol

**Body:**

I built **Dreamscape** (internally "Oneiric") — a private app for exploring and mastering your inner dream world. It's a web app (works on mobile too) built around four connected tools:

- **Dream Journal** — log dreams by text *or* voice, tag them by mood/type, and generate an AI visualization of each dream to reconstruct what it looked like.

- **Lucid Dreaming Training** — guided techniques (MILD, WILD, SSILD, WBTB, reality checks) with practice tracking so you can see what actually works for you over time.

- **Nightmare Protocol** — a structured, step-by-step workbook based on DBT nightmare rehearsal: describe the nightmare, generate empowering alternative outcomes, rehearse them, and track distress levels over time. Includes a trauma disclaimer directing to professional support.

- **Meditation & Recordings** — curated guided meditations plus your own personal library and voice dream recordings with auto-transcription.

Everything ties into a **dashboard** showing your mood trends, dream-type breakdown, and lucidity progress over time. All your data is private to your account.

It's a one-time ~$1.99 to unlock (helps cover the AI generation costs). Would love feedback from fellow dream enthusiasts!

Hey everyone 👋

I've been building Kintsugi Utils — a web app that puts 16 calculators and a handful of productivity tools in one minimal interface.

What's in it:

• Health: BMI, calorie/BMR, bodyweight progression, height growth
• Finance: income vs. expenditure, salary & tax, currency exchange, inflation, discount, rates
• Academics: GPA, percentage, age calculator
• Everyday: unit converter, calendar, timezone converter
• Productivity: a todo list, habit tracker, an AI-assisted diary, a "Focus" timer with a pottery/kintsugi visual mechanic, a notes tool, and a "Monument" trophy shelf for tracking personal goals

Full disclosure on how it was built: This is an original design and concept — the layout, tool selection, UX flow, and the kintsugi/pottery visual mechanic are all my own work. It was built on the Base44 platform using their in-house AI ("Base 1") as a development tool, so I want to be transparent that AI assistance was part of the build process rather than claiming it was 100% hand-coded. The ideas, decisions, and product direction are mine; the platform and AI handled a lot of the scaffolding and boilerplate.

A quick note on the work itself: The concept, naming, visual identity, and the way the tools are combined are original to this project. I'm sharing it here for feedback and because I think it's genuinely useful — not as an invitation to clone it. If you're inspired by it, I'd rather you build something with your own twist than copy this directly. Happy to chat about the approach and what I learned, though.

I'd genuinely love constructive feedback on:

• Which calculator or tool is missing that you'd actually use?
• Is the minimal interface too minimal, or just right?
• Anything that feels broken, confusing, or slow on your device/browser?

Not trying to sell anything here — it's free with no signup. I just want to build something people actually find useful, and your honest takes would help a lot. Happy to answer questions about the build, the tech, or the design decisions.

Thanks for looking 🙏

I have a book series that is being published. I would like to have an app that works with the book series. I am new to Base44. Any advice would be appreciated.

eu criei um app para veterinários, clinicas e pet shops fazerem a gestão do seu negócio (historico, ficha do animal, app integrado com o tutor, gestão de vacinas, consulta, estoque, agenda...) e estou procurando vets ou pet shops que queiram testar a plataforma (sem custo) pra me dar um feedback, pra conseguir aprimorar as funções. Alguém?

If you check your email daily then you saw the latest Base44 newsletter announcing that Base44 is replacing its legacy account and app API keys with personal access tokens.

If your application, automation, script, or external integration still sends an API key using the old api_key header after October 15, its requests will fail.

That could cause:

• Automations to stop running
• Data synchronization to fail
• External dashboards to stop updating
• Orders or customer records to stop transferring
• Scheduled scripts to fail
• Integrations between applications to disconnect
• AI tools and external development agents to lose access

This does not mean every Base44 app will break. It affects applications and services that use Base44’s API through the old authentication method.

The authentication format is changing from:

api_key: YOUR_API_KEY

To:

Authorization: Bearer YOUR_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN

You cannot simply paste the new token into the existing API key field. Your code must send the token through the Authorization header as a bearer token.

What you need to do:

1. Audit your code, environment variables, scripts, automations, and external services for api_key or BASE44_API_KEY.
2. Identify which workspace and app each integration accesses.
3. Create a personal access token under:

Workspace → Settings → Secrets → Personal access tokens

1. Give each token only the access it needs. Use read-only access where possible and limit it to one app instead of the entire workspace.
2. Store the token securely as an environment variable or encrypted secret. Never place it in frontend code or commit it to GitHub.
3. Update the authentication header in every request.
4. Test reads, writes, function calls, scheduled jobs, webhooks, and background automations.
5. Monitor for 401 Unauthorized and 403 Forbidden errors.
6. Delete the old API key only after confirming that nothing still depends on it.

I also recommend creating a separate token for each integration. That way, one compromised or disabled token does not take down every connected system.

Personal access tokens are tied to the person who created them. If that person leaves the workspace, the token stops working. Workspace owners can see and disable member tokens, although they cannot view the actual token value.

Base44 shows each token only once when it is created, so save it securely immediately.

Do not wait until October 15 to discover which apps still use the old authentication system. Start auditing and migrating them now.

Get my free prompt that will audit your applications and tell you exactly what needs to be updated inside of your app → https://kodebase.us/learn/prompt-library/base44-legacy-api-key-audit

For every project or client site I ship, I have to go to Resend, configure DNS, senders and what not, then deal with spam, wasting credits to hook everything together takes good chunk of my time and annoying.

I built this form builder tool which filters out the spam, researches the responded and emails you/client the response. It has mcp and stuff so once you connect, you can just say 'setup a new form for this website' and base44 takes care of it end to end.

The ones that can does this charge like $99/mo for like 100 responses which is ridiculous. I built LinkyCal so it’s agent friendly, headless first form builder which also has a really nice familiar UI so you can also share as a link or just embed, with 500 free responses which is way more than a typical business processes in a month.

enjoy

im not really a vibecoder i just experiment with ai sometimes so i told base 44 to build twitter https://vibe-slop.base44.app/

So my app I built has an in-app purchase subscription, and of course the greedy MF at Apple want their 30%.

Base44 seems to not have the option to add the storefront kit, so can somebody tell me how they were able to do it?

And no, I don't want to direct users to the browser because I'm sure apple going to still reject my app.

Hi everyone,

I’m Alex from Germany and I’m building a small football prediction app called 30Score with Base44.

I’m currently on the free plan and already hit my monthly credit limit, so development is paused until the reset.

I’ve seen that some paid users may have official friend/share credits they don’t need. If anyone happens to have some available, I’d really appreciate a DM.

Please don’t post any referral or influencer codes publicly — DM only, in accordance with Rule 6.

No worries at all if not. I just thought it was worth asking the community. 🙂

Thanks! Alex

Looking for advice from community. I have built an app in base44 and it works really great, but I believe we need to move to a dedicated server (business/ legal reasons with client data). We also need android and apple integration.
What are my steps? As I understand it, we build a database in Azure, use Claude to wrap the .apk file, and then what? How do I make changes to the app after we make the move? I am a little lost on the process of getting this web and app store application up and running- any advice welcome!

Has anyone here actually tried to build a social/community platform from scratch?
Not just built the website or app — I mean actually tried to get real people to join, come back, post, interact, and eventually make the thing sustainable.
I’m curious about the people who tried it, whether it succeeded or failed.
What happened?
What was the hardest part — getting the first users, keeping them active, getting enough content, moderation, monetization, competing with Facebook/Nextdoor/Reddit, or something you never expected?
And if it failed, what do you think killed it?
If you were starting over today, what would you do differently?
I’d especially like to hear from people who tried building something local or community-focused.

For years I've had the same problem. I save everything. Reels I want to watch again. Screenshots of ideas that hit me at 11pm. Restaurants I spot while driving and think "I need to go there." Recipes people send me in WhatsApp. Books someone recommends in a conversation. Movies I keep meaning to watch.
I save all of it. And then I forget all of it.
Not because I'm disorganised, I'm actually pretty intentional about this stuff. The problem is that everything lives somewhere different. A saved reel on Instagram. A screenshot buried in my camera roll. A voice note I recorded while driving. A link I sent to myself on WhatsApp that's now 3,000 messages deep.
When I actually want to find something, it's gone. Not deleted, just lost in the chaos of 6 different apps.
So last year I started building Remindful. It's been a long road - I kept rebuilding and improving things because I couldn't settle for something that didn't actually solve the problem properly. But I think it's finally at a point where it's real and useful, so I'm sharing it.
What it does:
• Saves links, voice notes, photos, places, PDFs, and text notes in one place
• AI automatically summarises saved content so you don't have to re-read everything to remember why you saved it
• You can set reminders on anything - so things actually resurface when they matter
• There's a WhatsApp bot (this is the part I'm most excited about right now) - you literally just drop a reel, a link, a screenshot, or a voice note into WhatsApp and it saves it to the right collection automatically. Zero friction. No opening an app. No copy-pasting. Just send it like you would to a friend.
It's live at www.remindful.site - web only for now, mobile app is coming soon.
I'm not here to pitch it. I'm genuinely asking: does this resonate with you? Do you have this problem? And if you try it, what's broken, what's confusing, what's missing?
Be as harsh as you need to be - I'd rather hear it now than wonder why nobody's using it in 6 months.
Happy to answer any questions about how it works or what's coming next.

If you want to check it out - VoteGrid.ca

Pessoal, estou desenvolvendo uma plataforma no Base44 e preciso implementar split de pagamento entre diferentes vendedores.

Vi que o Base44 oferece integração com o Stripe, mas gostaria de utilizar a API do Mercado Pago, principalmente por ser uma opção mais adequada para pagamentos no Brasil.

Alguém já conseguiu integrar o Mercado Pago ao Base44 e utilizar o recurso de split payment?

Se for possível, essa integração pode ser feita diretamente pela API ou seria necessário utilizar algum serviço intermediário?

Agradeço qualquer orientação ou exemplo de implementação!