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The Prop Room: prop rental and shoot planning, built with Base44
* Description:
The Prop Room is a playful prop-rental and shoot-planning web app for photographers, stylists, art directors and brands planning shoots.
The problem: Choosing props is visual, but rental catalogues aren’t. People imagine how isolated objects will look together, then rebuild item lists, quantities, costs and prep notes in separate tools.
* What it does
Collection: 16 props with filters, search, detail views and a tray with live daily totals.
Canvas: a scene editor with drag, resize, rotate, flip, one-step layering, per-object locking, snapping, undo/redo, background colours, PNG export, sharing and presentation mode.
Scene Stylist (AI): use, mood, budget and an optional brief become a catalogue-valid, budget-checked scene that opens straight into the canvas. Prices come from app data, not model text, and there’s a curated fallback plus an honest no-match state.
Inspiration and My Scenes: ready-made templates and saved, named scenes.
* Automation
One scene drives everything. Quantities and dates recalculate the daily and period estimate. A prep checklist is generated from the selected props (lighting power, backdrop support, fragile items, furniture access), and only the affected checks reset when the scene changes. The scene also produces a print-ready shoot pack and a calendar (ICS) file. Inquiries are saved as their own snapshot, so later edits never silently change a submitted request. Planning that usually takes a spreadsheet, a calculator and a checklist happens automatically while you compose.
* Process
Figma first. A brand guide came from a reference palette, with Stack Sans Notch and Stack Sans Text. Prop imagery was generated, cut out and art-directed, and desktop and mobile screens were designed and revised by hand. The approved designs were then built for real in Base44 and refined through rounds of side-by-side checks against Figma and real interaction testing at 1440, 390 and 320 px. The landing page’s brand film was made in Higgsfield with Seedance 2.0.
Live site: https://figma-the-prop-room-9b66831b.base44.app
Built with Base44 · Designed in Figma · #Base44Challenge
#Base44 #buildinpublic #UIUX #nocode
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A client portal for freelance video editors that turns a brief into a quote, a review link and an invoice on its own, so the editor only edits.
I'm Muse, a freelance video editor in Lagos (reels, YouTube long-form, podcast clip packs, promo ads). Every job I've done ran over WhatsApp and X DMs: I retyped quotes by hand, counted revision rounds in a chat thread, answered "is it done yet?" and chased invoices. CutDesk is the portal I built on Base44 so that part runs itself.
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• Brief in, quote out. A public brief form prices the job live from my rate card as the client types (format, quantity, captions, extra raw footage, and a 1.5x rush multiplier under 48 hours). Submitting it creates the client and the project, sets the deadline and issues a quote page the client approves with one tap.
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Time saved per client job (my own estimates from how my jobs run today, not measured in a study)
• Quoting: about 20-30 minutes of back-and-forth per job becomes zero; the client sees the price while filling the brief.
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• Status chasing: about 10-15 minutes per job of "is it done yet?" messages disappears; the client has the link.
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How it was built on Base44
Built from scratch in a day in the Base44 editor. Base44 entities hold the clients, projects, quotes, review notes, invoices and activity; the pricing, round counting, invoice numbering and reminders are app logic on top of them. The design is a custom system I specified prompt by prompt: Instrument Serif for display type, Inter Tight for the UI, JetBrains Mono for every timecode and amount, a near-black "cutting room" palette with one record-light orange, and a playhead motif that carries the project's stage through the whole product (the landing hero scrubs itself through the six stages, every desk card carries a mini scrubber, and the client's notes sit as markers on a real scrubber under the video). Mobile-first on every page: a bottom tab bar on the desk, a sticky estimate bar on the brief, sticky actions on the review page.
The demo workspace is open: submit a brief, leave a note on the Nova Fitness cut, approve it and watch the invoice appear, mark it paid. Demo footage is royalty-free from Pexels.
Links
• Live app: https://cutdesk.base44.app
• Walkthrough video: attached (and on X)
Music: original track made with Eleven Music (ElevenLabs).
