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☀️ The glass is blank. The wall isn't.
Hold it up to a window and there's nothing on it.
No print. No paint.
Then the sun comes through,
and a face lands on the wall.
That's a caustic lens.
Clear acrylic, its surface shaped so precisely that sunlight draws a picture.
They're beautiful, and almost nobody sells them.
Every single one needs its own optics solve.
🔆 HELIODOR
A studio that writes a name, or a face, in sunlight.
Type a name, or drop in a photo.
Your browser solves the lens. No server, no AI credits.
A ray-traced proof shows the light before anything is cut.
Then it checks the glass.
The portrait in the video: 3.3° slope, 3.6 mm deep, match 0.80.
Ready to cut.
From your city and your window, it finds every day the light is sharp
and adds them to your calendar.
Photos were the hard part.
A full-contrast face came out 7.1 mm deep, over the 6 mm cut line.
So every photo now keeps a soft base glow.
Behind it runs a real workshop.
Orders move through each stage on the Workshop board.
Today's lenses nest onto one acrylic sheet.
Approved pieces hang on the public Light Wall.
One photo.
One beam of sun.
Zero AI credits.
So whose face goes on your wall?
The sun does the rest. ✨
🛠️ Built in Base44: the app, the data, the sign-in and the hosting.
Make yours 👇
HELIODOR
damn the assets are looking so fine
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What if a hotel website could do more than just take bookings?
For the #Base44Challenge, I transformed the digital experience of Locanda Boutique Hotel, a real boutique hotel in Germany, into a modern, fully responsive hospitality platform.
✨ Standout Features
🏨 Seamless room discovery and bookings
🤖 AI Concierge for personalised recommendations, itinerary planning, and booking assistance
✈️ Airport transfers, spa treatments, restaurant reservations, and local experiences
👤 Personalised guest dashboard for managing reservations
⚡ Automated booking confirmations and check-in reminders
💎 Smart upsells to unlock additional revenue opportunities
⭐ Automated post-stay review requests and guest engagement
The vision? A hotel experience that feels premium before guests even arrive, while intelligent automation helps staff work smarter behind the scenes.
Built with @Base44. ✨
🚀 Explore the experience and tell me what stands out to you most! If you were running a boutique hotel, which of these features would make the biggest difference to your business?
I love the Automated replies from the bot
Ripcord. One pull for the day you can't go in.
You wake up ill. Client meetings, a deadline, people waiting on you. The worst part isn't the fever. It's the admin.
So I built a cord. Drag it down, say how long you're out, and Ripcord does the rest:
Moves your real Google Calendar meetings to your next free slots
Shifts your deadlines by the days you lose
Writes one short note per client in your voice, sent from your own Gmail
Plans your first morning back
Keeps a receipt for every change. Hold to undo any of it.
Can't face another app? There's an MCP server too. Tell Claude "I've got the flu, clear my week" and it pulls the cord for you.
Built entirely on Base44: entities with owner-only security, 27 backend functions, Google Calendar and Gmail connectors so each user connects their own account, InvokeLLM for the notes, and an hourly workflow for the heads-up and welcome-back emails. I tested it on my own calendar: the meetings moved, the notes landed, and undo put everything back.
The design is a "Signal Room": one glowing red cord on an LED wall. It works on your phone, one-handed, from bed.
Try the demo, no sign-up: https://ripcord.base44.app/demo/week
Great work as always, AJ 😊
Every morning, before the sun is fully up, Nigeria's motor parks are already moving.
At Jibowu, Ojota, Utako, Mile 1 and hundreds of parks across the country, buses are loading, and tucked between the passengers' bags are parcels. A mother sending foodstuff to her son at university in Sokoto. A trader in Onitsha restocking a shop in Kano. Documents, phones, fabric, medicine, gifts. All of it riding to towns and villages that most courier companies don't even list on their website.
This is Africa's real delivery network. It is fast, it is everywhere, and it runs on trust. But it's also invisible.
You hand your parcel to a driver you just met. You collect a number scribbled on paper. Then you wait, and you call, and you call again. Is it on the road? Has it arrived? Did it get lost at the next park? There's no tracking, no receipt and no record. When something goes wrong, there's no one to turn to.
The drivers aren't the problem. They are the heroes of this story. They drive these routes every single day. What's missing is the layer that connects them to the people who need them.
So for Base44's #GiveItAGlow challenge x Contra, I gave that network a glow-up and called it Waybill.
Waybill puts your parcel on a bus that's already going. You search your route and see the drivers who are loading or about to depart, with their price, vehicle and rating. You pay safely in the app, and the driver's number unlocks. At the park, the parcel is photographed and weighed. Then you and your receiver watch it move, town by town, until it's delivered.
Then I made sure nobody has to chase anybody. Ten automations run quietly in the background:
• You book, and an animated email confirms it's waiting for the driver to accept
• Drivers on that exact route are alerted the moment a paid parcel appears
• The receiver gets a tracking link at every stage, with no app or account needed
• Unpaid bookings get a reminder, then cancel themselves
• A parcel that goes quiet for 6 hours nudges its driver. After 12, the team is alerted
• Drivers who stop updating drop out of search, so you only see who is really moving
• Every Monday, drivers get their earnings. Every morning, the team gets an ops digest
The design comes straight from the park: headlines set like painted route boards, danfo yellow and road-sign green, and a waybill slip, the same paper ticket every park hands you, that fills itself in and gets stamped CONFIRMED.
For a driver, this means extra income from seats and space that already exist. For a sender, it means peace of mind. For a small business, it means reaching customers in towns that were too far before. Multiply that across every park in Nigeria, then across Africa, and you start to see how big this can be.
The infrastructure is already on the road. It just needed a glow-up. 🇳🇬
Built end to end with @Base44: the app, database, workflows and emails. Made in Sokoto by Low Code Africa.
(Video: a walkthrough of Waybill)
Try it: https://waybill.base44.app
#GiveItAGlow #Base44Challenge #BuiltWithBase44 #Nigeria #Africa #Logistics
https://contra.com/community/topic/base44giveitaglowchallenge
This is a brilliant solution to a real African problem! 🔥👏 Turning our existing transport network into a reliable, trackable delivery system is a smart move. Waybill is more than an app; it’s a bridge between trust, technology, and everyday logistics. 🇳🇬🚀