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🎮 Loading Bar 🎮
Board game café & bar, London (Stoke Newington) + Brighton. 80+ board games, retro consoles, a full arcade den.
Current website : https://loading.bar/location/stoke-newington/
Proposal : https://loading-glow-up.base44.app
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🤔 What was missing 🤔
• Booking ran through a generic third-party widget - many clicks which feel redundant • The neon-arcade personality that makes the venue special wasn't showing up online
•80+ games, consoles, and arcade cabinets - invisible until you walk in
• Every "what should we play?" or "what's vegan?" meant pulling a staff member away. Hard to plan a night out.
• Turn up excited to play something specific, and sometimes it's already on another table
• If you're planning a night out on a tight schedule, there was no way to sort any of this in advance. Some of us are not that spontaneous :P
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🚀 What was built 🚀
• A new booking flow - one page, live price ticking as you tap, real-time availability
• The brand, everywhere - custom glowing neon wordmark, arcade-inspired UI down to a loading bar that's literally the progress indicator
• A full games library online 0 searchable by player count, difficulty, category, so you know what's there before you go
• " Set a game aside" at booking - reserve what you want to play, so it's actually free when you arrive
• An AI Game Sommelier - recommends games for your group, answers FAQs, plans your whole night and books the table in chat - perfect for planning ahead on a tight schedule
• 3 branded email automations - confirmation, 24h reminder, review request, owner alert - all on-brand, not plaintext
• Proper multi-venue - pick London or Brighton once, everything follows
• One hidden easter egg - insert coin, play Snake, because why not??
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I gave a local Surulere restaurant the online glow-up it deserves 🔥
Rutz Restaurant has been serving delicious Nigerian meals in Surulere for years, but like many small businesses, they had almost no functional online presence — just an old, inactive Facebook page with no way for customers to easily book a table or get information.
So I built them a fully designed, mobile-responsive website on Base44 featuring:
✅ A beautiful “table glow” experience that captures the warm, cozy vibe of the restaurant
✅ An AI Superagent that answers menu questions, location info, and helps guide bookings
✅ A working Table Reservation system that sends instant WhatsApp notifications to the restaurant and confirmation to the customer
This isn’t just a pretty website — it’s a practical tool that can actually help them get more bookings and reduce time spent on calls and DMs.
Before → After transformation:
Old: No easy way to book or get information
New: Professional presence + real automation that works 24/7
Huge thanks to the Base44 team for this challenge. It pushed me to build something with real utility, not just visuals.
Check it out here: https://rutz-table-glow.base44.app
What do you think — would you book a table through a site like this?
#GiveItAGlow @Base44
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Now I'm convincing everyone to join this $15K challenge. 😂
#base44giveitaglowchallenge #BuildInPublic
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Built a full-stack, production-ready restaurant management platform that digitizes and automates the entire restaurant ecosystem.
• Developed role-based dashboards for Customers, Staff, Delivery Partners, and Administrators
• Implemented online ordering, order tracking, menu management, reservations, and customer account features.
• Created operational tools for kitchen workflow management, inventory control, and delivery coordination.
• Designed an admin dashboard with analytics, sales reporting, user management, and business insights.
• Delivered a scalable business solution that streamlines operations from order placement to successful delivery.
live link : https://magpie-restaurant.base44.app @Base44
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