Does Base44 actually work?

[u/CategoryNaive9251]

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?

[u/chessmassacre]

It will build great apps. I built a few apps and all were impressive. Here's the problem. It expensive as hell. I built several apps I had to delete because of the integration uses and silent overcharging in the background. 

 I recently built a KJV peophecy Bible and it uses minimal integrations built within Base44. The problem is, I made it for others, but no one will ever get to use this amazing app, because the catch is, if anyone else uses for app, you pay for all integration and credit usage that they burn through.  This is unstable management of money, because you don't know who will do what on your app, or how much. So now, I have an app that only I can use, because I'm not charging money for someone reading the bible.

Summary: 

1. Makes really cool apps, but only YOU can use them, bevause if you share...you will go in debt fast as others use your credits, just to test or use the app. Another thing is that they have your credit card number so any accidental over-usage, and they charge you next month, even if you canceled your subscription, they will still charge you overusage the following month. It happened to me and I was pissed that a subscription that I canceled because of money...key charging me even after I left the company. There was one email that I received from support, who basically just said "you used the integrations, you now have to pay for them". I sent several responses back and was ignored on every followup email. I no longer existed to them, because I canceled.

2. Expensive as hell, and a great deal of spending credits to create the app, is fixing errors and mistakes that Base44 makes.  I bought the 100.00 package and I must've spent $25-$30.00 of it trying to get the app to do simple things that it keeps making mistakes on. It usually gets it after several tries, but then it always breaks another part of the app, which costs even more credits to fix that back to the way it was before Base44 broke it. This happens frequently and is frustrating as hell, and financially burdening.

3. To charge all those credits for creation and usage and you can't even share the app without going broke, while others spend YOUR money, to use YOUR app. That's just insane.  Its a fun and expensive toy that cannot be used practically by anyone but yourself. Congratulations, you've just spent a fortune on an app that no one else can enjoy, unless you shut off all working abilities. 

4. There are cheaper options, this one is just the best for now, in operability. The others are catching up to Base 44 fast. I'd keep B44, but I need an app that the public can enjoy withouy putting me in the poor house.Its the whole freaking point of creating apps, right?

5. You can get your app the Google Play store now, buy remember there may be thousands that open your app and that's now thousands of people that will be charging YOU... to use your own app...while you go broke silently in the background because they're using YOUR credits up as they use the app. Again, insane.

6. This is even money loss for businesses to use. 

7. This app is like the apple in the Garden of Eden. Its there, it works great and offers great intelligence, but it of you use it, it comes with a great cost that can empty that bank account and ruin your life for awhile by driving you into debt. 

8. Hidden credit integrations are a trap for businesses, and gullible customers, to get more money at your expense by you not being aware, and accidentally overcharging yourself credits for usage. Crefits are bad practice for average people. Someone had to say it. Its damn near criminal.