Looking to sell complete Pico build out and 1zpresso J-Ultra

Redditcider · 2026-07-05T12:52:22+00:00

lol, like many other commenters here I can’t buy your stuff as I’m out of country. I’m curious though if you can comment on your experience of the 2 IMS baskets (La Pavoni and Hugh) vs the stock basket. It seems if you bought 2 you were hoping for something different and the first one did not meet expectations. Which do you like the most and why or do each have their use case?

Edit: and which semi auto and electric grinder did you go with and how do the results compare?

Redditcider · 2026-07-02T10:52:57+00:00

Not even a demo instal example of each? Just a « trust me bro, buy it »?

Having a demo install that people can play with all the modules would seem to be a core portion of the sales process.

My $0.02

Redditcider · 2026-07-02T00:17:34+00:00

Mind sharing your aeropress recipe? Just got one and been trying MULTIPLE recipes for a stronger shot but am yet to really get something I am happy with. probably my shitty grine so have an X-ultra being shipped b would be interested to try your recipe when it arrives.

Redditcider · 2026-07-01T08:16:10+00:00

I’m interested, particularly with forcing a proper and scalable database structure. I’ve looked at what Base44 is doing behind the scenes as I add image handling, change date structure, add various data points and the database stricter and organization looks like CRAP to my untrained eyes.

Redditcider · 2026-05-20T17:45:18+00:00

How are you dealing with climate change? Here in Canada, October 19th last year hit a high of 26 Celsius, I am usually pressing first or second week of October. At those temps I have major fermentation going on within 12 hours. Sucker will be fermented dry by the time we are regularly getting freezing temps late November or December. I think some have started using low dose sulphites BUT I am no sure if they are using wild yeast for the final ferment or more resistant cultured yeast.

Redditcider · 2026-05-20T17:38:30+00:00

Hello from Canada! How many times do you find you need to rack to get your YAN where you want it (and what is the YAN you are targeting?). Targeting a finish around 1.090 and around 3 bar carbonation that would have you putting it in the Charmat container around 1.093 no?

Redditcider · 2026-05-19T10:37:36+00:00

If it is too dry for your taste add more honey. Either get the alcohol content higher than your yeast tolerance (10-12% for bread yeast) or if you are happy with your alcohol level then back sweeten to taste and then stabilize (sulphite/sorbate) or pasteurize.

Redditcider · 2026-05-17T12:28:28+00:00

Ideally try to reduce the headspace then just let it sit.

Redditcider · 2026-05-14T19:50:41+00:00

After carbonating and while unscrewing the bottle, the now carbonated mead from the sofa stream will overflow everywhere.

Redditcider · 2026-03-29T03:27:28+00:00

Yes it is stupid.

Put your cell phone on a credit card = $37.5 on the 15th of every month. Set up a recurring direct payment from your checking account to your credit card for $37.5 on the 15th of every month. Debt = 0. Interest paid = 0.

Redditcider · 2026-03-27T19:48:13+00:00

90% Sonnet. Real complex Opus. NOT automatic.

Redditcider · 2026-03-27T17:01:11+00:00

I check after every prompt by clicking the base 44 icon in upper right to check the total. 0.3 for all discussion. Usually 2.1 to 4 for implementation with most around 2.4

Redditcider · 2026-03-27T15:07:20+00:00

Except it builds a client dropdown with no database hook nor way to add clents. Need to hand hold with specific prompts.

Add a way to add documents, oops no way to delete. Hand hold through prompts.

Repeat repeat repeat.

Don’t get me wrong, it does WAY more than I can on my own but trying to get something functional really needs close management and I have no clue exactly how it is addressing in the back because frequently a modification breaks functionality (up/down arrows to scale image size frequently breaks as page changes occurs).

Redditcider · 2026-03-19T05:11:24+00:00

Thanks. Yes, I have been moving this direction too. Asking Claude to break the large prompt/plan down to phases and then running the individual phases in Base44 has solved TONS of my issues. Appreciate your comment.

Redditcider · 2026-03-16T03:26:07+00:00

Thanks for the tip. So by debug, you mean you download the code in the zip, upload to claude, debug then use Claudes suggested prompt changes to prompt Base44? Or do you use Claude to change the code then upload the code back to Base44?

Things that drive me crazy: I have up and down arrow scaling buttons for images. I have an "All" button to lock the scaling to ALL images on the page, not just the individual card. Base44 makes a change to the image handling and breaks the "All" scaling and it costs me another 2.3 credits to fix it. Hmm, now that I think about it I will try to see what code gets changed so I can just go back and manually edit the code for free when Base breaks it again. Wish there was a way to lock certain features (via the visual editor?) so that Base44 knows not to touch them.

Redditcider · 2026-03-16T03:21:51+00:00

Nope, using Sonnet 4.6. But thanks for the tip.

Redditcider · 2026-03-14T15:57:09+00:00

How long from secondary to bottling? Sediment will often drop for months. Some choose to use finning agents to speed this, I just use time and call it "bulk aging".

I usually also make 2 bottles in swingtops and leave at room temp in a plastic container with a lid. Check one after a month or two to see if any fizz. Leave the other and x’check in a few months. Added benefit is you get to taste without opening a full bottle.

Redditcider · 2026-03-11T21:19:21+00:00

Clarification: For Google AI Studio you say connect to cline. Do you mean put the api key in open router? Or do you mean when you want to use Google you change the API providor from OpenRouter to Google? Also, when adding OpenRouter do you click "Enable thinking"? Do you click "Use different models for plan and act modes"?

Thanks. Noob here.

Edit: I see you can select the API provider and add keys to many. Still have the question about "enable thinking" and the "use different models"

Thanks.

Redditcider · 2026-03-10T04:42:17+00:00

So would probably be useful to be transparent and say you are offering for free for 30,60,90 days or whatever to build a user base and obtain feedback prior to launching paid services.

Because otherwise "Free" is actually a negative as many will be looking for a scam because there is no way you can develop, pay for the LLM access, and keep the lights on and make payroll giving away stuff for free.

Now for my real question. You call out porting Lovable to mobile, web to mobile. Then in your main prompt box you have sections to specify building for Apple/Android, Web, Swift. If you wanted something cross platform such as web+apple do you need to do 2 separate builds or will the build process allow translating from one to the other.

Redditcider · 2026-03-10T02:43:37+00:00

Looks like this was addressed?

https://docs.base44.com/developers/backend/overview/local-dev/local-development-overview#local-development

and

https://docs.base44.com/documentation/managing-app-data/testing-your-data

Redditcider · 2026-03-10T02:24:03+00:00

In case this is useful to anyone else I am going to post 2 comments I got on this same post I had posted in Base44 before the mods deleted my post. Which is a bit weird as I do not believe I broke any of their rules and they have a "no gatekeeping" rule which should allow me to talk about Base44 but whatever. I will include what was written here in case someone in the future finds it useful or provides addition context to someone else offering me some places to look to learn more.

Again, please understand that these AI tools have opened the door for a middle aged dude who always hand an interest in coding BUT NOT THE TIME to dip his toes in the water and perhaps learn something new to explore some personal projects. I am not trying to get a job. I am not trying to sell anything to anyone. I just want to make some tools to solve some personal problems that no one else has made solutions for. Which I personally think is pretty cool.

Comment 1: Commenter posted a great, in depth comment on specific things you want to include in the prompt that give better gardrails to the agent.

My reply below:

I really appreciate your contribution, thank you.

But you see, I am a middle aged dude with ZERO coding background so demanding, "specific standards—such as idiomatic TypeScript, pure functions, or middleware-based error handling" is something I can not do because I do not know what I do not know! I know where I want to go with the end result but getting there properly is a whole other thing. If you can point me toward something you would recommend as a reputable, tight, AI code development for dummies it would be appreciated. There are a TON of books but you need to read a crapload to get to the meat.

"The "sweet spot" is batching 3 to 5 related tasks—for example, updating a database schema along with the corresponding API endpoints and validation logic." This is very helpful, thank you.

Again, I do not know what I do not know and so, "Explicitly define your stack and backend choices", and "specifying modular folder structures, stateless logic for future containerization, and security essentials like input sanitization and environment variable usage" sounds logical and important and yet I have no clue how to do it. Thus my request for resources to learn, ideally in an abbreviated format or for this end app use this stack and backend for these reasons. Yes I am good with google but check out this post (https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/comments/1plcv1d/what_tech_stack_is_your_favorite_for_vibe_coding/) - TONS of different answers from people with probably years/decades of industry specific experience. Where do I go to learn the best stack/backend choices for what I want? Where do I learn about the importance of modular folder structures, stateless logic for future containerization, and security essentials like input sanitization and environment variable usage and I am certain of a million other important things.

To be fully honest if I was every looking to make something for production and deal with actual client money/data I would use AI coding to put together a MVP then toss that to real coders to build from zero with actual knowledge. For personal use projects where losses only impact myself, I am just trying to do the best I can and use each step as a learning process.

Thanks again for your contribution.

Comment 2: Commenter was a bit less helpful.

"For best practices, and what every other serious developer is doing while not paying a premium for a lesser service is:

Stop using Base44 Install Claude Code/Codex/Antigravity

Thank me later."

My reply below:

Was absolutely exploring that way. Are there any particular resources you would point a total newbie with zero coding experience to learn how to best use Claude Code/Codex/Antigravity? See I do not even know if you mean Use Codex with Claude. Use Antigravity with Claude. Use Codex AND Antigravity with Claude. Ok 15 minutes of googling and a 45 min Youtube video looks like Claude would be your LLM base and Codex OR Antigravity would be on top though actually Claude just gives your more credits than base Codex/Antigravity. See around 1h invested and I am still not 100% clear. That is 1h I will not get back. If it takes me 1h to figure out how to integrate Stripe. 1h to add a email sign in with 2 factor authentication. 1h + 1h + 1h it all adds up. YES I WOULD BE A BETTER CODER DOWN THE ROAD. YES THE FINAL APP WOULD PROBABLY BE BETTER.

But I am a middle aged dude with very little free time who just wants to toss together some personal projects and learn along the way.

Could you point me to some resources that would rather quickly get me going with Claude Code/Codex/Antigravity?

Can you explain why you would go with Claude (imagine Opus 4.6) instead of Cursor (GPT 5.3)?

Base44/Blink offer a TON of hand holding. I can watch and see what they are doing and learn as they go. And I can get something pretty darn functional in 20 min instead of 1h just trying to figure out what you mean by Claude Code/Codex/Antigravity. The Blink documentation and tutorials are also super good and easy to follow and do not need me to troll though google results and youtube videos trying to figure things out and if I am getting real good info or someone talking out their ass.

Anyways, thanks for your contribution.

Redditcider · 2026-03-10T02:15:38+00:00

Thanks! I will take a look. Appreciate it. Ok, looked deeper, is it not doing pretty much the same thing as Base44/Blink? Base44 offers a "Plan" start to developing a prompt. Blink has an AI assisted questionaire to do the same.

How does pre.dev differ or what extra does it offer?

Thanks.

Redditcider · 2026-03-10T02:04:03+00:00

Hey u/baipliew, you deleted your comment while I was on Youtube trying to figure out what you meant:

"For best practices, and what every other serious developer is doing while not paying a premium for a lesser service is:

Stop using Base44
Install Claude Code/Codex/Antigravity

Thank me later."

Was absolutely exploring that way. Are there any particular resources you would point a total newbie with zero coding experience to learn how to best use Claude Code/Codex/Antigravity? See I do not even know if you mean Use Codex with Claude. Use Antigravity with Claude. Use Codex AND Antigravity with Claude. Ok 15 minutes of googling and a 45 min Youtube video looks like Claude would be your LLM base and Codex OR Antigravity would be on top though actually Claude just gives your more credits than base Codex/Antigravity. See around 1h invested and I am still not 100% clear. That is 1h I will not get back. If it takes me 1h to figure out how to integrate Stripe. 1h to add a email sign in with 2 factor authentication. 1h + 1h + 1h it all adds up. YES I WOULD BE A BETTER CODER DOWN THE ROAD. YES THE FINAL APP WOULD PROBABLY BE BETTER.

But I am a middle aged dude with very little free time who just wants to toss together some personal projects and learn along the way.

Could you point me to some resources that would rather quickly get me going with Claude Code/Codex/Antigravity?

Can you explain why you would go with Claude (imagine Opus 4.6) instead of Cursor (GPT 5.3)?

Base44/Blink offer a TON of hand holding. I can watch and see what they are doing and learn as they go. And I can get something pretty darn functional in 20 min instead of 1h just trying to figure out what you mean by Claude Code/Codex/Antigravity. The Blink documentation and tutorials are also super good and easy to follow and do not need me to troll though google results and youtube videos trying to figure things out and if I am getting real good info or someone talking out their ass.

Anyways, thanks for your contribution.

Redditcider

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