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Anna Peredelskaia
Web, UX/UI & Marketing Designer who thinks business-first
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I saw the Base44 challenge and thought: what if I built an actual app?
I've built plenty of websites, and my workflow there is pretty well established. But building an app entirely on my own, as a designer? I've never done anything even close to that. So naturally, I wanted to try.
And I already had an idea I'd been putting off for a while.
About a year and a half ago, I became a mom, and one of the things that drove me absolutely crazy was introducing solids. The information was scattered across dozens of sources, recommendations were confusing, and I ended up putting together my own plan piece by piece. And then trying to keep all of it in my head. Not exactly what you need when you're already sleep-deprived.
That's where the idea for Tastimi, a gentle guide to your baby's first foods, came from.
So I got to work. Designed the screens, created the logo, thought through the user flows, and got a little carried away, as usual.
Then I looked at the calendar and realized that even with AI assistants and all their superpowers, building an entire native app in a few days was a bit too ambitious.
Well, what do we do when there's not enough time?
đ MVP, of course.
I already had the designs, so I decided to turn them into an interactive website using Base44. Something that could introduce the product, give parents actual value, and help me test the idea before investing months into development.
So here's what I managed to build:
1. Design: Custom branding, illustrations, real app screens, and a fully responsive, mobile-first website. Everything is based on my original app designs.
2. Automatic language detection: The website opens in English or French depending on the visitor's browser settings, with a manual language switch.
3. Interactive quiz: Parents select their baby's age and get a personalized starting-solids plan with food suggestions, practical tips, and things to avoid. The recommendations are curated, not AI-generated. I love AI, but I'd rather not let it improvise when it comes to feeding babies.
4. Waitlist and lead capture: Since the app isn't available yet, visitors can leave their email instead of clicking a download button that leads nowhere. The idea is to start building an audience before the actual launch.
5. Behind the scenes: I've also been working on the signup flow and automation logic, including personalized follow-ups and collecting insights about potential users. Some parts are still a work in progress, but the foundation is there.
I did hit a few limitations with my current Base44 plan, so there's still some setup to finish. But given the deadline, I decided to focus on getting the MVP live and leave the polishing for later.
The business logic is pretty simple: instead of spending months building an app based entirely on my assumptions, I can start validating demand now. Parents get something useful through the quiz, and I get a chance to understand what to build first.
Is it the native app I originally wanted to submit? No. Is everything finished? Also no. But it's a working MVP, and honestly, I'm pretty happy with how much I managed to get done.
So here I am, jumping into the Base44 challenge literally in its last hours. Better late than never, I guess đ
Here's Tastimi: https://tastimi.base44.app
Would love to hear what you think!
#Base44 #ProductDesign #BuildInPublic #MVP #NoCode
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Submission #2: I couldnât stop at one đ¤
My first entry was about figuring out SVGator and the MCP workflow. Once it clicked, I wanted to build something even more useful. Black Friday is coming, and itâs the one campaign almost every business runs. So the idea was simple: an animated social ad that any brand can make its own in minutes.
Black Friday Carousel is a vertical 9:16 ad for Reels, Stories and posts. Empty glass cells grow into a product card, the price drops with a strike-through, and the cards swap along an arc. The CTA is on screen from the very first card.
My main goal was to make it truly reusable. Most carousel templates assume you sell physical products. But Black Friday is also run by digital products, travel agencies, beauty salons, restaurants and many others. So I built it to work for all of them:
- One media slot for everything. It takes cut-out product PNGs and full-bleed photos (a beach, a spa, a burger) in the same rounded frame.
- One-step accent colour. Search âaccentâ, select the layers, change one fill. Prices, strike lines, button and glows all update together.
- Every text is editable. Headline, discount, names, prices and CTA, with no keyframes to touch.
- Clearly named layers and a built-in how-to-customize note.
To prove it, I made five versions from the same template: electronics, travel, online courses, food delivery and a spa. Only media, texts and the colour change; the animation stays exactly the same.
The whole template was designed and animated through the SVGator MCP with Claude. That includes the layout, the motion, the clipping for the media slot and the five brand variations.
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When I create templates, the most important thing for me is that they actually work for businesses, not just exist as beautiful animations for the sake of animation. Showing results is one of the simplest and most effective visual marketing techniques. A good before-and-after comparison can often say more than a whole paragraph of copy.
That idea is what shaped Before/After Reveal â a 9-second animated ad template for businesses where the result is the main message. It can work for skincare, dentistry, car repair, and many other industries.
The concept is simple: reveal the transformation, highlight the result, and end with a clear call to action.
I also wanted to make the template genuinely reusable. You can swap two photos, change the logo and copy, and quickly turn it into a new campaign. All elements are properly named, and the text remains editable.
I built the entire animation using Claude through SVGator MCP, from the before-and-after reveal to the masking effects and keyframes.
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