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1 designer + base44 + 3 days without proper sleep = Overdrive🤍 A job tracking system for a car repair shop.

✱ One board showing every car on the floor, where each one stands and what’s holding it up. Add a car, assign the work, and from there it tracks itself- what’s late, which parts have landed, who’s in today. Visit history, receipts, and a widget that tells you the next free slot you can offer someone.

Three days. Not smooth ones. But it’s live❗️

✱ Now the why, because none of those features were my idea.

My client owns the shop. Four mechanics, up to seven cars a day, no front desk. For months he’d complain about the same stuff whenever we talked: parts he ordered and forgot about, mechanics starting one car and getting pulled onto another, people asking when they can bring a car in and him not knowing what to say.

It was never a brief, of course, he was just talking. But one day I asked him properly: what do you need to see the moment you walk in?

✱ He said four things. And those four made sense as widgets, naturally.

Nothing on the job board gets typed in by a person. For example, a car shows as blocked because the mechanic who has it is off today- the board works that out and writes the reason on the card. He doesn’t walk around the shop asking anyone, he can just see it now.

✱ And the part nobody puts in these posts😅

→ It is my first time ever (!) using Base44 and I started without a paid plan, so I had a hard limit on how many prompts I got. You can’t iterate your way to something like that. Every prompt had to arrive already correct, which meant almost all of the work happened before I typed anything. I designed every screen and every state in Figma first, then worked out exactly what to ask for and in what order. I spent hours with Claude and Google figuring out how to phrase things, what would break, what to check before changing anything. I’d write a prompt and then throw it away and write a better one, because a wasted prompt cost more than the time did 🤷🏻‍♀️

Honestly, the constraint made it better. No aimless tinkering. Every change had a reason before it was made, and I still got every core feature I wanted in there.

✸Research: https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVEWOXy9k=/?share_link_id=813311021448 ✸Walkthrough: https://www.loom.com/share/69ffa2d58ca24e7bb10676be5173cdc2 ✸Overdrive live demo: https://overdrive-shop-flow.base44.app ✸X thread: https://x.com/gurvchler/status/2114517480152740121?s=20 ✸LinkedIn post: https://lnkd.in/p/dysRmrNw

Wow!! Love this