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 😂

I built a little hotel you can explore. With an AI teammate that turns guest requests into action.

Meet SuiteDesk, my entry for the #Base44Challenge, built with @Base44.

It’s an AI concierge and service workspace for boutique hotels.

The idea started with a small moment:

“Could we have two extra towels?”

A simple request still needs to reach the right person, get handled, and get back to the guest. SuiteDesk connects those steps.

* Mira is the AI agent persona in SuiteDesk, trained on the hotel's specific service policies and local recommendations What she does:

Guests ask from their phones. Staff manage the work from a shared service desk.

I wanted that experience to feel as welcoming as the hotel itself.

So I built an illustrated world around it: a courtyard, rooms, a spa, and Mira waiting to help.

The design gives you places to explore and ways to try the service.

Inside Base44, I worked on the agents, their instructions, hotel knowledge, and request workflow.

I kept reworking the artwork, copy, and navigation until the hotel helped explain the product.

The walkthrough shows both sides: the interactive experience and a labelled test request moving through the live service desk.

My goal was to give boutique hotel teams less to chase, while keeping hospitality personal.

Watch the build, then step inside: https://elite-stay-stream-flow.base44.app/guestbook

Starting from "two extra towels" is such a good way to frame it. The guest seeing the status update is the part hotels usually miss.