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Chara Oil is a palm oil business based in Port Harcourt, run by Joy.
Before this weekend, every sale happened through DMs and WhatsApp.
For example:
A customer sends a message. She replies. They ask for prices. They ask questions about the oil. They ask about delivery. She calculates prices manually. She sends payment details. And if she isn’t online, they wait.
She told me she once nearly lost a sale because she couldn’t reply early enough.
What stood out to me about Joy specifically: she’d tried building her own website using a portfolio guide I’d shared online earlier.
The site wasn’t complete, but it proved she was intentional about growing her business.
We had a call on the 8th of July, where I asked her a series of questions about her business.
I got to work, and the next day I sent her the final build brief to confirm she was satisfied before I went ahead.
I built her a system around the way her business actually sells:
→ A fully responsive online storefront
→ Automated ordering with retail and wholesale pricing
→ Chara, an AI sales assistant trained on her business, answering customer questions 24/7
→ A WhatsApp handoff with the full order pre-filled, so Joy gets notified instantly
Before launch, Joy tested everything herself and flagged that the AI assistant wasn’t responding.
I found the issue, anonymous access hadn’t been enabled, and fixed it within minutes.
My goal was to eliminate repetitive work, respond faster, and make it easier for customers to buy.
Before (Joy’s existing website attempt)
After (GiveItAGlow)
Full walkthrough video below.
Built with @Base44 for the #GiveItAGlow challenge. 🫶🏽
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Limbodi Fitness Club — from a WhatsApp PDF to a self-running gym platform
I built this for the gym I actually train at — Limbodi Fitness Club in Indore. A genuinely good place: 5,000 sq ft, 50+ machines, 4.9★ from 57 reviews. But online, it looked invisible.
Before: just a Google listing and printed pamphlets. To join, you'd get a PDF price list forwarded over WhatsApp, or get pushed to a sketchy third-party app with barely 10K downloads. No website, no way to book from home. Every lead handled by hand.
After: I built them a live, fully designed, mobile-responsive site on Base44. Now everything a walk-in used to ask is answered upfront — zones, real testimonials, coaches, and a clean pricing wall that used to be that PDF. I shot the real gym photos myself, so people can see what they're joining and book without stepping in.
How I helped: I gave an invisible business a branded home it fully owns no aggregator, no middleman app. The owner gets a real dashboard (members, new joins, monthly revenue, searchable management), and members get their own self-serve space.
The automation: the part I'm proudest of. An AI gym assistant, trained on the gym's info, answers questions and books sessions conversationally. The moment someone books, it creates the record, emails the owner the full details, and logs the lead to a sheet — automatically. No missed enquiries, no "who was that on WhatsApp."
The result: a gym that looked invisible now has a site that answers questions, books sessions, notifies the owner, and captures every lead on its own live, and in their hands.
Buil in Base44 for #base44giveitaglowchallenge
Link: https://limbodi-noir-fit.base44.app
This is awesome, keep going buddy
For the #GiveItAGlow challenge, I partnered with a real local tattoo studio and transformed its outdated online presence into a modern, business-ready experience built entirely with Base44.
Instead of creating just another portfolio website, I focused on solving real business problems. The new experience includes an AI-powered consultation assistant, a structured booking workflow, artist recommendations, educational aftercare resources, a searchable portfolio, a professional blog, and automations that help reduce repetitive inquiries and streamline customer communication.
The goal was simple: create something the studio could genuinely use—not a prototype, but a polished, responsive website that improves both the customer experience and day-to-day operations.
Highlights
🎨 Complete premium website redesign
🤖 AI consultation assistant
📅 Streamlined consultation and booking workflow
📚 Educational blog and aftercare resources
👨🎨 Artist profiles and searchable portfolio
⚡ Automated inquiry management, confirmations, reminders, and follow-ups
📱 Fully responsive and production-ready
Huge thanks to Base44 for hosting this challenge and encouraging builders to create tools that deliver real value to local businesses.
#GiveItAGlow @Base44 #Base44 #WebDesign #UIDesign #UXDesign #NoCode #Automation #AI #SmallBusiness #TattooStudio
https://ink-house-archive.base44.app
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I built an AI-powered sales system for a local anime figures business in Vizag.
The business was doing okay on Instagram, but the owner was manually handling every single customer inquiry on WhatsApp and DMs. No website. No lead system. Just pure manual work.
After understanding his pain points, I built the following using Base44 for the Give It A Glow challenge:
What I built:
Storefront Clean landing page + dynamic Shop page with masonry grids Categories, New Arrivals, and Grail flags
CollectiX Closer (AI Sales Agent) Triggered when user clicks "Buy Now" Works via WhatsApp Real-time product data access (price, stock, availability) Classifies customer intent into Exploring / Likely to Buy / Want to Buy Creates leads with full conversation summaries Handles sold-out cases + Notify Me flow
Admin Dashboard Full product management (CRUD + media + stock flags)
Leads pipeline sorted by intent priority AI-generated conversation summaries WhatsApp quick links + status tracking (Contacted / Closed).
Auto-notify system when restocking items Insights dashboard (inventory trends + lead intent) The biggest win?
The owner no longer has to reply to every message.
He can now focus only on serious buyers.
This was one of the most useful builds I’ve done recently. Live site + walkthrough.
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