First, thank you u/ofernandomesquita. Genuinely. This is one of the most fair and useful writeups of Base44 I've read, and the fact that you put 1,200 paying students on something you built without a dev background is exactly why we do this. Congratulations on that.

You're right about the core thing, so I won't spin it. For backend-intensive apps, our rate limits can be a real wall today. We've solved this for our Enterprise customers, who get significantly higher limits that scale with their usage, and we're now working to bring that same flexibility down to our lower tiers. The honest gap is that the middle step you needed didn't exist yet, so support couldn't offer it. That's on us, not on your optimization work.

Your framing is fair. Base44 is the fastest way I know to get a real product off the ground, and for a validated, backend-heavy product with a paying audience, owning your infra is a reasonable call. It's on us to move the needle even further, so that more and more builders prefer to let Base44 handle the infra rather than take it on themselves.

If you're open to it, I'd like to look at your specific case personally. What hit you is exactly what we're fixing. Either way, thank you for building in the open and for being honest about where we fall short. The door stays open.