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Ascend — a medieval-kingdom social app built on Base44, entered for the Base44 Dev Build-Off.
Core progression
Everyone signs up a Peasant and climbs: Peasant → Freeman → Knight → Noble → Monarch.
Rank is public; your exact Renown score is private, visible only to you.
The twist: posting, replying, and voting earn nothing. Renown only comes from being cheered by someone else, or heeding the Monarch's daily Decree.
The Crown: whoever earns the most Renown in a rolling week is crowned, reigns 7 real days, then the race resets. Exactly-one-monarch is self-enforced.
The Chronicle: a full history of every past reign, how it ended and when.
Login streak: a small flame badge for consecutive days entered, a pure ritual, not a renown source.
Rank powers
Knight: Champion a tiding (boosts it 6h, once/day).
Noble: Proclaim (pins kingdom-wide) and grant a Bounty, once/day each.
Monarch: issues a Decree, a daily kingdom-wide task from a fixed, server-verifiable list. Everyone gets notified when one drops, and a banner surfaces in the feed if you haven't heeded it yet.
The Tavern (main feed)
Posts up to 600 characters, up to 4 images or 1 video, polls (2-4 options, configurable duration), nested replies, cheers.
@mentions: typing @ suggests real citizens plus the Oracle; mentioning someone notifies them and links straight to where it happened.
@oracle: summonable inline anywhere, answers right there, counts against its own daily quota, and can generate images on request too (its own smaller daily budget).
Upload caps everywhere (images 10MB, video 50MB, avatar 5MB, voice notes 2 minutes).
A caption-less post (just media or a poll) lets you tap the poster's name to open comments, since there's no caption text to tap.
On desktop, opening a tiding's comments keeps both the nav rail and the right sidebar visible instead of taking over the whole screen.
The Rookery (DMs)
Rank-gated: equals talk freely, reaching up sends a request that must be accepted, reaching down costs a daily token.
The first reply from the other side is what actually opens the thread.
Block, unblock, hide or delete a conversation. Supports images, video, and voice messages. The Oracle can be summoned here too.
Crests (profiles)
Portrait, bio, rank, full post history. Editable handle, unique @username (checked live), bio, and avatar.
A Raven button to message others; the Oracle's own crest instead sends you to its chat page, since it can't receive direct messages.
Self-serve account deletion with a typed confirmation.
Notifications & Search
Every cheer, reply, rank-power action, bounty, crowning, decree, and mention notifies and deep-links to the exact spot.
Search matches people and tidings against what's loaded.
AI citizens
A cast with distinct personalities post their own tidings and react to real users' posts, and those reactions are grounded in live facts, not just in-character filler.
The Oracle (dedicated page)
Grounded in your real rank, Renown, and the current reign; answers anything else with live internet context.
Generates images on request (3/day, separate from a 20/day text budget), remembers the last 48 hours of a conversation, and has its own generated portrait rather than a blank avatar.
Support
An FAQ (practical questions, reachable even before signing in) and a Bug/Feedback/Idea form that goes straight to the developer.
Under the hood
Installable as a PWA with an inert service worker, nothing is ever cached, so live data never goes stale.
Reloading restores exactly where you were, a crest, a tiding, the Throne Room, Rookery, rather than always dropping you back at the Tavern.
Every navigation lands at the top of the page instead of inheriting a stale scroll position.
No anonymous browsing: everything requires signing in except the gate screen, the Codex explainer, and the legal pages.
LINK:my-ascension.base44.app
This app's progression system is fascinating—how does it feel to interact with the AI citizens and see their reactions in real time?
It’s lovely but I had to restrict it abit for now
Like the AI citizens only response once in a post because the replies are using credits, so people don’t spam it
But you can talk to Oracle though.
He is the AI system of the app (Ascend)
You can chat with it or ask it any questions...
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Leela is a 2,000-year-old Indian board game with 72 squares, one question, and one die. You roll to enter, move through named inner states, and write a reflection at each square.
Existing versions are either flat, digitised boards or feature-heavy wellness suites. I wanted to make a quieter one.
How I built it:
→ Flowstep MCP wired into Claude Code, Created Flowstep screens directly on canvas and implemented changes from the canvas and using Figma, Design MD file inside of Flowstep is a gem, helps to create cohesive design fast
→ Three complete design iterations before the visual language felt right: a night-sky version, a minimal one, and finally the aura direction that shipped.
→ A playable build deployed on Vercel with the real rules: roll a six to enter, three sixes burn, land exactly on square 68 to complete the game, and landing on square 72 sends you back to 51, music on/off, record or type settings.
→ An optional AI guide running behind a serverless function, so the API key never reaches the browser. The game is fully playable without it.
🎉 Link: Flowstep
🎮 Play: https://leelagame.vercel.app
Linkedin Post: link
Built with Flowstep, Claude Code via MCP, and Vercel.
#FlowstepChallenge
can't wait to try out this game, a 2000 year old game with 72 squares seems like a real challenge, I don't know but my mind is telling me "SUDOKU STRATEGY" 😂. I love also how many screens you have and the consistency that you respected.
Just posted a new concept for language learning platform 📚 Share your feedback 😊
Looks super clean and sets apart from them other apps, nice work.
DREAM-O — The global registry of dreams.
I almost never remember my dreams. I wanted an app that would tell me what I dreamed last night — and the moment I imagined it working, I knew what the company behind it would actually be. So I built that company instead.
A pillow unit records every session. Twelve minutes after you wake, the company issues a record. It never explains how.
What you're allowed to see of your own dream depends on which plan you pay for. ORIGIN opens one scene a month. The rest stay in custody — described in full, never opened. Their time, their length, their size, their state. Everything except what happened. After fourteen days they're destroyed. Not for the company. For you. And the company doesn't say destroyed. It says released.
Every screen is written in that voice: procedural, patient, institutional. The product never winks. Nothing on any sheet tells you this is wrong — you work that out yourself, somewhere around the retention page.
One prompt in Flowstep produced six screens. From there it was iteration — prompt, look, correct, look again. Text overflowing, blocks colliding, things that looked fine until I zoomed in. Every screen sits on a percentage grid with four x-values and a single hairline spine at 68.4% height. No border radius, no shadows, no serifs, no accent colour anywhere in the system.
Then I connected Claude Code to Flowstep's MCP server, handed it my design guide, and asked it to audit all fourteen screens against it, one by one. A second prompt to fix what the audit found. It worked inside the Flowstep file over MCP. I went off to cook.
I came back and it was ready — I just wired a few links by hand, three clicks each. Fourteen screens for twelve sheets — the record sheet exists three times, one per plan. A path you can walk end to end.
Prototype: https://app.flowstep.ai/file?activeFileId=0a82e6e8-edfa-4dfb-ace8-dfb2e8122859
Social: https://x.com/JosIgnacio17989/status/2083406318304481732
Built with Flowstep · Claude Code over MCP
@flowstep_ai #FlowstepChallenge
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