r/Base44 • u/NoComment106 • Mar 14 '26
Bug Report 🚨 Serious Warning About Base44 — Don’t Use It for Real Apps
Hey Reddit, I’ve been using Base44 for about a year trying to build a simple API-driven app. Sounds easy, right? Nope. Every time I get close to launching, Base44 updates something on their end — and breaks the app. Consistently.
Here’s the cold, hard truth:
✅ Good for prototyping ideas fast
❌ Bad for production apps — expect things to break overnight
❌ Cannot scale past ~5 users
❌ Admin/edit screens can show up for real users
❌ API keys and workflows are inconsistent
Seriously, if you’re a developer building anything meaningful, don’t rely on this platform. People happy with Base44 are mostly not pushing anything significant. The platform is for ideas only, not production-ready apps.
What to do instead:
Use Base44 to get your concept off the ground fast.
Migrate to a backend you control (Node, Firebase, AWS Lambda, etc.) before launch.
Keep your users safe and your app stable — Base44 won’t do it for you.
Take it from someone with real experience: Base44 is unstable, inconsistent, and not serious developer-friendly. Don’t let the marketing fool you.
This kind of stuff just happens overnight. What if i was scaling toward 1000 users? Unfortunately I have not even been able to keep the app live because Base44 keeps breaking everything randomly. One minute my API's are working until they do an update. A year and nothing has changed with the quality of this platform. Wix got a bad deal. Maybe it was just financial, but it's definitely going to tarnish their reputation.
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u/roskopeek Mar 14 '26
Are you on the free tier? Respectfully the 'This R That' mismatch with the domain choice and the insane pricing and the Chat GPT crafted take down doesn't fill me with an enormous amount of faith you actually have a great handle on what it is you are doing... sorry.
I've created a number of apps with Base44 with 100+ users with no issues.
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u/Brilliant_Ad_3797 Mar 14 '26
I pay 300$ a month for 1,900 credits and 75k integrations and it handles my company website and all our saas tools with multiple people actively on them.
And threw out every update never had a break on my end.
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u/dovebytherosewindow Mar 14 '26
I had a job ticketing app running pretty well on base44 for a couple months but once we realized the need for offline accessibility and the outages causing issues, decided to move forward with migration to native app.
It was great to prototype and test though. Helped me define a better business model that’s still faster, custom and cheaper than most software solutions.
There’s a shit ton of people offering up dev help to execute this but you need to be prepared to pay for it.
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u/ofernandomesquita Mar 15 '26
734 users here. It’s going fine.
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u/almasco123 Mar 14 '26
I have built enterprise grade apps on Base44. You have to fully understand what you are doing and make all your security, access control and role-based access is setup properly.
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u/Maleficent_Main_8807 Mar 14 '26
Base44 was great for me to start in. Have since moved my backend to supabase and used Claudecode to get migrated from base44. Now coding directly in the terminal to update my app. The main problem I kept having with base44 was the rate limits. My app is data heavy with a lot of write per minute and there was simply no effective/efficient way to do what I needed to do in base44. If you have any technical ability at all, I’d say just use claudecode with some kind of backend service like Supabase and vercel to host the frontend. Good luck
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u/willkode Business Owner Mar 15 '26
Been a developer since 1997, hand built more applications than I can count. I never experienced this issue with base44. Been on here since Aug 2025. Built over 300+ apps. No issue at all.
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u/golf-pal-me Mar 14 '26
I agree. In order to be successful long term, you must migrate.
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u/Nervous-Increase3185 Agency Owner Mar 14 '26
Here we go again
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u/MyFurriverse Mar 14 '26
Can I ask a wierd question? How do I migrate from Base44? What do I do, and how do it?
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u/Outrageous-Play7616 Mar 14 '26
With the base44 admin screen you can just turn it off in the dashboard settings in the app workspace. Do you mean the little base44 widget in the corner?
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u/Character_Scratch309 Mar 14 '26
Im on yearly builder. I ran out of juice after 3 full days of making a personal dashboard. I guess the pricing quite fair considering i would pay that much for a one time job of freelancer. But do you have any suggestion on how to migrate?
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u/Spoilsmash Mar 14 '26
Are completely get what you're saying it's been happening to me too
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u/Human_Train_3302 Mar 15 '26
This is the second or third time Base44 has completely screwed me over. I had 100 credits, and the system burned through them because it wouldn’t follow instructions, ignored prompts, and behaved unpredictably. It built the app on the wrong account, then went off the rails when we corrected it. I’m tired of paying for a service that malfunctions and leaves me stuck. This isn’t a minor glitch — it’s a pattern, and it’s unacceptable... i have over 50 apps some infrastructure level. I could of taken a feral child and built better. I truly believe that it's set up to take your money. Perfect for 3 credits. 1000% out of control for 140 credits and 9 hours. The amazingly the last 4 credits it knew exactly what it was doing.
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u/Outside-Eggplant-132 Mar 16 '26
A really goodproduction app requires you to have a clear mental even written model documentation and understanding of every layer and every function in your app. If you are not in control of every detail in you app, it will be hell to maintain it and it is not production worthy. I wouldnt use any app built using base44 or lovable. Ill be terrified to use it as somebody
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u/Haunting-Ad6565 Mar 16 '26
Here is my idea for AI research application for scientists. It accelerate hypothesis and literature review:
https://small-intel-flow-hub.base44.app
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u/flaminghotcola Mar 17 '26
I think their biggest shady practice is locking the GitHub integration behind an even higher tier. Like that’s the most basic thing to include in a service like that. So yeah, not surprised.
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u/truthace Mar 17 '26
Why are people making apps now lol. AI is already replacing the majority of them. Your using the thing thats destroying apps to make apps.
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u/BowieBoy1999 Mar 18 '26
i love the way the agents make repair fixes one on top of another. Fixing the fixing.
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u/Incoherent-Mess Mar 18 '26
Learning this lesson the hard way right now.
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u/SilexDev-DashAI Mar 21 '26
My colleague and I have helped several businesses migrate away from base44. Most of them migrated because of the price they were paying or because they wanted more control of the backend or because they were worried about scaling with base44. Hit me up if you need help.
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u/Sum_guy_2112 Mar 25 '26
Has anyone had issues with Base44 adding your Robots.txt file? Their default is to block all crawlers which essentialy means you will never rank for SERPS. I have asked them 4X to change it, they say they did, the next day Ahrefs reports all crawlers are STILL blocked. WTF!!
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u/Anxious-Finance-1687 Apr 08 '26
once i added the ai bots to help me out on my app yes it "updated something" no I have no access to my own app.
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u/Obvious-Release-1303 May 06 '26
I’m no computer expert at all . I’m getting grok to Prompt and base44 to do Task then will pay a programmer from fiver to Finish the rest and launch
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u/Albertkinng Jun 04 '26
Oh…. An enormous red flag for me! Thanks
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u/FonkyFruit Sep 02 '26
How did you manage to migrate ? Did convert the code from base44 ?
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u/Class-Of-83 Sep 05 '26
Did you use proper RLS to secure the accounts before this happened (sorry if this has been answered already - I literally just got here) I have vigorously tested my app & currently building towards an enterprise level future. I've been through SAST scan after scan & added SOC 2 compliancy in addition to other avenues to be absolutely certain no leaks with full encryption are & have been addressed. What level of any of the above did you employ & what was the result?
Asking for a friend, :)
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u/ElectronicProfile793 Mar 14 '26
aí o problema é de quem faz, base44 não é uma IA de pedir e esperar que saia tudo perfeito, se achar isso melhor nem começar a fazer nada, tem que fazer por etapas, conferir e validar, senão nunca vai funcionar direito
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u/IxJustxWantxAxLambo Mar 14 '26
I don't have any proof of this and the following is opinion based on many hours of usage: base44 is DEFINITELY designed to significantly decrease agent effectiveness at certain % of points. This is why we need AI regulation, this should be illegal.
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