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

Well done! And love the "no proper sleep" detail - sounds so familiar 😂

🏏 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.