🏏 BAT RIOT — What if cricket became the ultimate night out?

SWING LOUD. STAY LATE.

For the #Base44Challenge, I wanted to build something that went beyond a beautiful landing page.

The idea was simple: take the energy of cricket, combine it with nightlife, and turn it into a complete digital experience.

Meet BAT RIOT, a Melbourne-inspired social-cricket entertainment platform where competitive games, great food, music, and unforgettable nights come together.

But I didn't want it to just look good. I wanted it to actually work.

Using @Base44, I built an interactive booking experience where visitors can explore venues, check bay availability, select a session, and make reservations.

I also built Party Captain, a group coordination experience for invitations, RSVPs, and guest preferences.

Behind the scenes, there's a staff command centre for managing bookings, scores, and waitlists. The waitlist recovery workflow can automatically generate time-limited offers when a session becomes available, helping reduce manual coordination and recover booking opportunities.

And because the visual experience mattered just as much, I went a step further.

Instead of relying on generic stock footage, I used Google Flow to create custom cinematic scenes—from cricket action and celebrations to venue reveals and food shots. I then edited and optimized the footage to bring the BAT RIOT identity to life across the website.

The goal was to connect design, functionality, automation, and storytelling into one cohesive experience.

This project pushed me to think beyond individual pages and build something that feels like a real product.

And that's what I'm most excited to share.

🌐 Explore BAT RIOT: https://bat-riot.base44.app/

Built with Base44. Cinematics created with Google Flow.

#Base44Challenge #Base44

I can see my friends loving this site. They are cricket fanatic haha.

Buying engagement on Contra challenge submissions needs to be stopped. To the Contra founder, the challenges team and support: engagement is being bought and demanded on challenge submissions, and it needs action.

Vishal Singh [@vishal_singh_glpzotia] (Vishal Web Studio) has a submission in the Base44 challenge, judged by @Ofir Maimon . I reached out about a role he had posted and sent my application. He replied that he was shortlisting candidates and would check my application. In the same breath he sent a link to his own Contra submission and said: “Until then like share comment upgoat reshare.”

When I told him I was out of upgoats for the day, he came back with: “Like comment upgoat this. And I will give you 10 USD.”

Both screenshots are attached, unedited.

This matters for three reasons. Challenge rankings are meant to reflect what the community values, and paid or coerced engagement corrupts them. A prize pool is at stake, so this directly harms people who entered honestly. And job seekers are being made to feel that an application only gets read if they first boost someone’s entry. That is exploitation of people who need work, and it should have no place on Contra.

I am asking Contra to:

Investigate this submission and account for engagement manipulation, and disqualify the entry if the review confirms it.

Write an explicit rule into every challenge’s terms: paying for engagement, or making engagement a condition of a job or application, is a bannable offence.

Suspend or block accounts that do this, and make it easy to report it from inside a submission.

If you have been asked to boost a submission in exchange for money, or for a chance at a job, please report it and say so below. A pattern is easier to act on than one set of screenshots. @Isabel Feuerstein @Ben Huffman

Hi @Mehul Sethia thank you for bringing this to our attention. Our team has reviewed and is taking action as we do not allow buying engagement. That said I want to assure you that whatever this user claims he is able to do to "shortlist" submissions has absolutely no impact on how submissions are scored by the judges.