FreshBag — The day ends.

FreshBag — The day ends. Good food’s story shouldn’t. The shutters come down. The counter isn’t empty.

There’s still bread, a few pastries, and food someone spent hours preparing. For a bakery owner, that’s effort and money at risk. For someone nearby, it could be good food at a price they can afford.

That gap became the idea behind FreshBag.

I designed and built FreshBag with Base44 to help local bakeries offer their same-day surplus as discounted bags that customers can discover, reserve and collect.

I wanted both sides to feel understood.

For customers, that meant a welcoming neighbourhood experience, clear savings and pickup details before reserving.

For bakery owners, it meant a practical dashboard that brings freshness, surplus, reservations and recovered value into one place.

The design decisions grew from that purpose: an illustrated neighbourhood to make discovery feel local, green-and-white screens that keep the focus on the food, and clear status indicators that help owners decide what needs attention.

Then I connected the experience through automation. The bakery-rush demo shows a bag being published, demo reservations coming in, pickup passes being generated and impact updating—alongside workflows for closed pickup windows and unclaimed bags.

The most meaningful part of this build was designing one shared journey from two different perspectives: the person who made the food, and the person who gets to enjoy it.

Thank you to the Base44 and Contra teams for creating this challenge and giving independent builders a reason to take an idea beyond the sketch. It pushed me to think through the screens, the operations behind them, and the story connecting them.

FreshBag is my answer to a small question with everyday possibilities:

Before we call it waste, could it become someone’s next good find?

Watch the walkthrough and explore the build: https://fresh-bag-consumer.base44.app/

My submission for the Base44 Challenge on Contra.

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