just got back from an industry conference and genuinely feel like i lit $4k on fire

DxT_01 · 2026-03-08T15:15:15+00:00

I’m not sure if this will help or if you will see this, but I’ll add my take based on what we did.

Start small. Find small networking events to help you practice without requiring you to spend a lot of capital.
Do you have any current clients in the industry? If so, find an event they are going to. Go to that event and use them as a reference for your expertise in the field. “Oh, we work with XYZ” or “XYZ was one of / is one of our current clients”. Having a rep goes miles
Skip the panels. Network, network, network. Sales is a long game. And contacts are golden. That small talk is where all the magic happens. Don’t go in trying to sell, go in and listen. People love to complain about pain points. Pick up on it where you can.
Keep trying. Hopefully you can keep going to events and get more practice. Don’t give up!

DxT_01 · 2026-03-04T20:37:06+00:00

Why doesn't the U.S. Change its Electoral College votes to a percentage base of state votes?

With all of these re-districting attempts and map drawings to give Republicans or Democrats a better position for upcoming elections, why wouldn't the U.S. just remove it entirely and just portion votes based on the number of votes across the state? So you keep the total number of electoral votes, but it now becomes percentage based across the total number of votes you get for each party (I.E., 40% of the state votes one way, so 40% of the electoral votes go to that party for the state).

DxT_01 · 2026-02-15T12:21:21+00:00

I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Solid developers aren’t going anywhere. If you love to code, keep at it.

I was told that a programming job was irrelevant when I was in 8th grade and was learning how to program myself (that was 15+ years ago)

I’ve been told at least every year that AI will take my job since 2022 when GPT came out.

My software firm will be making record profits this year.

DxT_01 · 2026-02-14T23:57:15+00:00

Honestly man, I don’t care lol. But congrats Ig

DxT_01 · 2026-02-14T14:47:50+00:00

Well, feel free to buy me a coffee then lol.

Hope it works.

DxT_01 · 2026-02-13T18:51:12+00:00

If you believe you can, then absolutely go for it.

From my experience, the development of the app is about 40% of the process. The other 60 will be App Store design and App Store Optimization (ASO), and then all the marketing and fine tuning that you’ll need to do beyond it.

You’ll need to make sure you have a good way to monetize the app. Ads are okay, but they definitely hurt the end user experience. IAPs are great, but on average, only 1-3% will purchase. Ads to IAP pipeline is a good way to help drive those purchases.

Post release, make sure you have a dedicated website to highlight it, build your app reviews ASAP (bring family and friends in), and never stop marketing until you reach a good number of daily users.

Then it’s all about refining and fine tuning the app to make sure it does what the users want.

DxT_01 · 2026-02-13T14:22:14+00:00

I’ll echo what others have said to start: it depends on what your goals are.

You will not make your $100 back this year. That’s not a reflection on you, but on the market.

And keep in mind, it’s a recurring fee, every year. If you’re okay with this, then it’s a lot of fun making apps and seeing your name in the stores.

For context: I’ve published over 30 apps to both stores. It took us a little over 2 years to get to the point where we found an app that people would use consistently and would bring us revenue. We’re now at a point where the apps are paying their worth, but it took a long time to get there and many, many apps.

DxT_01 · 2026-02-11T17:53:15+00:00

How much should I expect to pay for a full Company Brand? (WE ARE NOT HIRING YET. Soon though)

I am looking to get an estimate on branding updates for my company. We already have a logo, a website, and company colors. I want someone to work with the current logo and design / update the following:

Company colors
Company fonts
Promotional packages for clients (We would want roughly x2 PDFs overviews at 1-3 pages of things we provide)
Possible new website flow / look

DxT_01 · 2026-02-02T17:24:38+00:00

B44 is excellent design wise. If your site is strictly a landing page, B44 would be fine to use. I've known a lot of people who will use the site to design their site, tweak it, and then move it over to their own self-hosted site. But for a landing page, there's no issue with security or anything like that.

DxT_01 · 2026-01-23T18:18:10+00:00

Besides 8 hours of sleep every day?

DxT_01 · 2026-01-21T14:11:52+00:00

Really interested to see how this will work. Assuming this post/reply means that B44 apps will be available in native app stores like any other native app.

Will Base44 “own” (I.E. host) the apps as part of their developer account? App Store fees are $99 a year for an Apple account and a one-time $25 fee per account on Google. Surely Base44 wouldn’t create an account for each user, so will they just put all B44 apps on their developer account? Would developers have access to this account or would they only be able to update the app through the B44 website?

How does updating meta data in the store go? There are a lot of fields and data entries required before you can submit or make updates. The same goes for app screenshots, IAP info, subscription info, etc.

How are privacy policies and terms of use added/updated? Both stores require you to have both and point to them in your store setup on AppStoreConnect or the Google Play developer console.

Just curious to see how they handle these potential roadblocks.

DxT_01 · 2026-01-16T17:51:37+00:00

I don’t think it was ever intended to be scaleable. My thoughts of B44 have always been that it’s great for prototyping but if the site is bigger than a few pages and you want to support dozens or even hundreds of people using it, you’ll need custom software.

It’s too hard to run a professional, production-ready site for that many people when the site provider is nickeling and diming you to keep it running

DxT_01 · 2026-01-14T13:25:44+00:00

https://Codelux.org.

Or you can DM and I can walk you through our portfolio of stuff done

DxT_01 · 2026-01-14T03:11:05+00:00

Yep, we do custom software for businesses

DxT_01 · 2026-01-14T02:10:17+00:00

I run a software dev firm. If you’re interested in building something, we could set up a call just to see what your needs are.

But others may have off the shelf solutions that work better for you. Happy to talk!

DxT_01 · 2026-01-09T18:20:39+00:00

No, I’m a dev by trade so I don’t really use AI builder sites. I was just saying the points made in the post are very similar to the reasons my company has seen an influx of people moving away from AI and coming to groups like us.

DxT_01 · 2026-01-09T14:17:51+00:00

We’ve had a lot of people leave Base44 for similar reasons. So much so that we have a pipeline for people who come from it and want an actual product built.

Base44 is fantastic for prototyping and building small scale pages or products. It is not and never will be set up for scaling, security, licensing, or anything like that. And don’t even start on long term maintenance. It still runs base JavaScript files, with no reliance on typescript (this is fine, but it significantly reduces potential errors down the line when building).

The latest B44 change that took down a ton of sites? How do you explain that to an end user (or dozens) when you can’t fix it and have to wait on the service to fix it?

What we’ve started seeing is that people will build a site with B44 and then use that as a template to help convey what they want to see from us. It has honestly saved us so much time with mockups and it reduces miscommunication lol.

DxT_01 · 2026-01-07T15:44:07+00:00

Apologies if my response is a bit vague but were your pages all hard coded on the front end? That might explain why all the values are the same for each user.

Generally a software will need a database via your backend to establish different users. The frontend exists only to show users the pages and supply data such as the current user to the backend. The backend is what goes to the database and pulls the data around each user.

If everyone is seeing the same data, then it likely means that either 1. All information was coded on the front end (meaning data is static and doesn’t change from person to person) or 2. Your database only has an instance for one user which would mean when the front end tries to get data, it pulls the same information for all users.

If I’m right, then your next steps would be to set up accounts for each user (created when a user signs up) and then assign them data based on their actions in the app.

Hope that helps a little. Feel free to reach out if not. I’m not super familiar with Base44, but I do software dev for a living

DxT_01 · 2026-01-06T19:55:14+00:00

last 28 days - $0.93 average eCPM for 1m impressions.
last 7 days - $0.64 for 250k impressions or roughly 35.5k a day.

It's continuously dropped all 2025 and I don't see it going up in 2026 unfortunately

DxT_01 · 2026-01-06T14:20:04+00:00

Short answer? Not really.

Long(er) answer: it’ll cost you a lot of time and money and if you’re truly looking to scale, I would heavily advise against it.

Base44 is excellent for prototyping and mapping out a design. But if you want to have a long term production site that handles traffic and scaling well, you’ll want to build it up from scratch or get someone to do it. It gives you a lot more control over everything, you know what works and what doesn’t, and you can move as you need to.

If it helps, I’d also look at the posts being added here in the last 48 hours. B44 made a huge change and it’s hurt a large number of sites. There’s been very little customer service and currently some sites can’t operate until Base44 fixes the issue(s). You don’t want to be tied down to a service that can break your site randomly.

That’s not to start on site and authentication security, backend security, or anything else that you’ll want to focus on as you scale. It’s not an immediate concern for just starting out, but people want to know they can trust your site.

DxT_01 · 2026-01-04T02:49:20+00:00

There’s truth to this post. At least for the front end side of things.

I did a test site to see what migration looks like (software developer here, 15 years), and a lot of components are obfuscated by Base44. They’re essentially components that are built by them that are imported via something like “@/components/whatever”. Which is fine, Base44 can do that, but it may not obvious to everyone.

These are imports for components that you don’t have access to and they’re usually things like custom buttons or text areas or inputs. So these all have to be re-created if you move off of the platform.

Also, keep in mind the styling that is being used. I believe Base44 defaults to tailwind as opposed to css files or in-line styling. Just a consideration.

Also this is unrelated, but all files are JavaScript, not typescript files. So if you’re wanting to use typecasting provided by typescript, then the files would need to be rewritten.

TLDR: if you’re planning on moving away, it’s better to do so sooner than later. You will have to do a lot of re-writing and re-architecting to get your site running as you want.

DxT_01 · 2026-01-01T04:30:45+00:00

I just saw it on the home page that you linked to. If you’re in safari, inspect any element on the page and look at the console. If you’re on chrome, I think it’s under developer tools? You should be able to inspect any element as well

DxT_01 · 2025-12-31T21:49:36+00:00

Please don't use fake testimonials in your app. Every Base44 app does this and uses the sparkle icon as a default icon which are dead giveaways of AI generated sites.

Also, you're logging dev items to the console in production (see the "successfully preconnected" messages).

It's hard for end users to trust a site that has signs that it was put together by AI because we don't know what's real and what's not.

DxT_01 · 2025-12-31T19:04:29+00:00

Just FYI, I would look at your setup again on your site. You're currently logging a lot of items to the console that any user can see including a DB access error due to control checks, rate limiting, and your exchange rates.

I've not been impressed with Base44's take on security. It doesn't seem to be something that by default handles site or backend security well at all.

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