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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
YouTube is a goldmine of free courses.
But search for one and you often get a video that's really an ad for some product, half filler, or not what you were looking for at all.
So I built CourseHunt with @Base44 👇
🏆 The best free course for any skill, ranked by AI & real learner votes, not views
🔍 Course X-ray: paste any YouTube link and get "Worth it" or "Skip it" plus a better pick
⏩ Smart Play skips the filler and the parts you already know
🤖 Ask Scout: pause and ask "what does this mean?". It watches that exact moment and explains
🗺️ AI learning paths that plan your weeks, step by step
⚠️ Outdated courses get flagged and sink
347 free courses. 31 skills. And increasing. Hunted daily.
Watch the best. Skip the rest.
→ coursehunt.base44.app
#Base44Challenge
Meet Sieve. ☀️
The moment an inquiry lands, Sieve reads it, scores it against your criteria, and hands you a call-ready brief. What they want. Whether they can afford it.
Sieve reads every inquiry the moment it lands, scores the fit, and hands you a call-ready brief — so you spend your time on the people worth talking to.
Service businesses sell their expertise, but the first hour of every inquiry is spent on admin — reading, sorting, replying, guessing. Sieve takes that hour back. Inquiries land in one place, get scored against the rubric you set, and come back as a call-ready brief: what they want, whether they can afford it, how urgent it is, and what to ask next. You see the whole pipeline at a glance, work the ones that fit, and let the rest go politely. It runs the same way at 11pm as it does on a Tuesday morning, and it never forgets to follow up.
The problem
What: A good lead and a bad one look identical in your inbox. Sorting them is unpaid work, and it happens exactly when you're busiest — so replies get slower, good leads go cold, and you end up on calls that were never going to close.
Who: Small service businesses — studios, consultancies, agencies, contractors — usually 2–20 people, where the owner is still the one doing the selling.
Why it matters: Speed and judgment decide who wins the work. Sieve gives every inquiry the same careful first pass, in minutes, so the only thing you spend your time on is the conversation that's worth having.
Enjoyed working on this project!😊 Thank you Base44 💙
