AI Development Projects in KarnatakaAI Development Projects in KarnatakaA women led animal rescue and shelter in Silchar runs 24/7 saving street dogs and cats 🐾
Their online presence? A Google Maps pin and a sloppy website full of stock elephant photos.
For the #base44giveitaglowchallenge I gave them the glow-up they actually deserved.
BEFORE:
1. No way to see which animals need homes
2. Adoption inquiries buried in DMs and missed calls
3. Rescue reports meant one phone number that rings out mid-rescue
4. A dated site that told none of their story
5. And many more
AFTER:
1. A premium editorial website with a live animal database; adopted animals hide themselves automatically
2. Bella, an AI agent on both the site and WhatsApp, handling everything: adoption questions, adopter screening, meet-and-greet bookings, rescue reports
3. An emergency rescue flow: anyone can file a report in under 60 seconds, the founder is alerted instantly, and a live rescue board triages it
4. Branded email notifications with one-tap Google Calendar scheduling that auto-invites the adopter
5. A full admin dashboard: drag an application forward, and the adopter gets emailed automatically
6. And that's not even all of it
The shelter now takes bookings, answers questions, and handles emergencies at 3am - literally in its sleep.
The founder's hours went from answering "is Bruno still available?" back to actually saving and caring for the animals.
Watch it all in action (4 videos attached):
1. The full transformation in under 5 minutes - old site to new build, AI agents, automations, everything
2. The UI, up close - because this design deserves its own spotlight
3. Inside the admin - a narrated walkthrough of how the automations run the shelter
4. A live conversation with Bella
See it yourself:
The real business: Google Map
(https://maps.app.goo.gl/v4Tk7yab5zyuF5HG8)Before: Old Website (https://free-nature-web.preview.emergentagent.com/)
After: New Base44 Website
(https://wild-and-free.base44.app/)X Post: Redirect (https://x.com/iam_roysubhra/status/2076392949345325404?s=20)
Every life deserves to be Wild and Free. This build makes sure the humans saving them get their hours back 🐶 My family's venue waited 18 years for a website. My clients never waited a day.
In 13 years of freelancing, I never missed a client deadline. But VIK Convention Hall, my family's wedding venue in Hunsur, Karnataka ran for 18 years on directory listings, a phone number, and a paper register. That's the freelancer's curse: our best work goes to strangers, our leftovers to the people we love. The #base44giveitaglowchallenge finally gave me a reason to treat my own family like my best client.
THE BUSINESS
VIK Convention Hall (VIK Kalyana Mantapa), Reshme Market Road, Hunsur — my family's venue since 2008. 1,500+ weddings hosted, capacity for 1,000 guests, 15,000 sq ft, 5 guest rooms, in-house catering. A single booking is worth ₹40,000, and for 18 years every one of them depended on someone catching a phone call. The "before" was directory pages we don't control: Justdial, WeddingBazaar, Mandap.com (http://Mandap.com), Google business page No photos of ours, no pricing, no way to check a date.
THE PRODUCT
Live: https://vik-covention-hall.base44.app
A complete booking platform, not a brochure — mobile-first, because every family here plans weddings from a phone.
Live availability calendar. Families see exactly which dates are open before they ever call. It also highlights upcoming muhurtham (auspicious) dates in Karnataka, families choose wedding dates by auspicious days, so the calendar speaks the language our customers actually plan in. Tapping an open date starts an inquiry with the date pre-filled.
Event planner. A step-by-step builder where families pick their spaces (main hall, dining hall, guest suites), decoration style, catering type, and services — and see an estimate range before the first phone call. It turns a vague inquiry into a qualified one.
Real content. Real photos of our hall, real ₹ pricing, real booking terms (25% advance confirms the date). Nothing invented — judges can call the number and reach my family.
THE AUTOMATION (all working, shown in the video)
Inquiry → instant WhatsApp alert. The moment an inquiry lands, Twilio fires a WhatsApp message to the phone that has answered VIK's calls since 2008 — date, event type, guest count, contact. Response time drops from "whenever we check missed calls" to instant.
Automatic date protection. When a booking is confirmed or held, the date locks on the public calendar by itself. The double-booking risk of a paper register, the thing that actually keeps venue owners up at night is gone.
Pipeline, not inbox. Every inquiry is tracked through stages: Inquiry → Site Visit → Tentative Hold → Advance Paid → Confirmed, with payments recorded against each booking. One-tap WhatsApp buttons send the customer status updates matched to each stage.
No lead left behind. Even partially completed plans are saved with a phone number, so a family that hesitated on Tuesday gets a call back on Wednesday before, they simply vanished.
THE STORY
Video walkthrough (before → after): https://youtu.be/b4bwzwh3EsU
WHY IT MATTERS
This isn't a concept venue or a demo build. It's my family's hall, the calendar will hold our real bookings, and the alerts go to our real phone. Adoption isn't a promise it's how VIK takes bookings starting this week. The challenge didn't just produce a website; it broke a 13-year pattern of giving my best work to everyone but my own people. If you freelance, you have your own VIK. Give it the client treatment.
Thank you to all the builders in the #base44giveitaglowchallenge, and to @Base44 for giving me the reason to finally build for my own people. Eighteen years overdue, done in a week. There are still edges to polish, but that's the point. This isn't a challenge entry that dies on the deadline. It's my family's booking system now, and I'll keep refining it until it's as sharp as anything I've shipped for a client. Built a full legal SaaS entirely in Google Stitch, including contracts, e-signatures, audit trails, Drive sync, and Gmail sync.
Live: google-stitch-project.vercel.app (http://google-stitch-project.vercel.app)
The biggest surprise was how well design.md (http://design.md) held the product together. Across 15+ screens, it kept the UI visually consistent without constant manual correction. Once that clicked, the model stopped drifting and the whole build became much more reliable.
Edits & Annotate was the feature that made the biggest difference in practice. Instead of regenerating entire screens, I could click into a component, describe the change, and keep moving without losing work or breaking the rest of the interface.
For deployment, the flow was simple:
Export -> Antigravity -> Vercel.
I gave it one prompt: “read all the files and give me a deploy plan.”
It understood the structure, interactions, and motion well enough that the site was live within minutes.
The most impressive part was the continuity from idea to production without switching contexts.
Live: google-stitch-project.vercel.app (http://google-stitch-project.vercel.app)
