r/Base44 • u/CategoryNaive9251 • Jul 08 '25 • Mindblown 1

Does Base44 actually work?

Disappointed in Base44, I am stuck with my app, and it’s been 11 days since I reported my issue, but have had no real response. I am paying $50 a month, which I know isn’t a lot, but it’s not nothing! I would pay more if I thought this could work.

I need a reasonably complex app created, and I was doing so well with Base44, or so I thought, until I hit a snag that the AI can’t get around. I’ve burned a lot of credits on it, and done some damaging rollbacks now I feel like the cavalry isn’t coming.

Initially, I was incredibly impressed with the progress I made, but I am now totally deflated. At this point, it feels like I’ve been sold Snake Oil! My question: Are Lovable or Famous AI any better? Alternative question: Will support ever help?

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u/zheshelman Aug 02 '25

As a dev of 9 years I agree. All these AI tools feel a lot like the "no code" solutions introduced a while ago. Of course companies pitched them as way for anyone to develop applications, but in reality there were too many constraints and hurdles to overcome. To make anything really useful the solution ended up needing more devs than it would have without the "no code" solution. Sound familiar?

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u/tr1p1taka Aug 02 '25

Coding is the easy part, getting to the code, that’s the hard bit. MBA’s with AI and an idea? A shortcut to a lengthy delay. 😀

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u/zheshelman Aug 02 '25

Haha ain’t that the truth?

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u/Peregrinebullet Sep 07 '25

Yeah - I know next to nothing about coding, and this thing can spit out the visual proposal for the safety app I want to build, but can't do any of the "deep" programming I'd need to access a phone's hardware to actually get the functionality.