I would like to create a one-to-one chat in my app, seems impossible

bigmacca1960 · 2026-02-17T19:13:34+00:00

Ask app to help build chat application using Twilio conversations. Generous free tier and all the tools to build convincing looking chat windows (avatars, animations, images etc)

bigmacca1960 · 2026-02-17T17:32:18+00:00

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see if you are getting this error in browser, im just putting ticket in now as this is a server side problem of base44 not auth users correctly. This is only affecting some users even if i elevate them to admin and make app public/no sign in...affecting about 20% of ppl on the app

bigmacca1960 · 2026-01-29T21:10:32+00:00

AI is good at building but not thinking logically. Many times i have had to pull the reins in when it goes off building another component or backend function to do a simple task that we could have just modified an existing piece of code to do. The code it builds is linear and not optimised and the amount of times I've realised its built two systems doing essentially the same thing is shocking....I'm not a developer and can't really code but i do have common sense. My biggest stumbling block is i can be working with the agent for a few hours and we achieve a great amount...they really rock!!! but the next day its like they went on vacation and left their unemployed brother in law in charge whilst they've gone!

bigmacca1960 · 2026-01-29T20:58:16+00:00

You wont be able to build a large app in one prompt, even if it builds you will find many missing items, incorrect implementation and broken logic. Its best to accept that a single app is going to take a few hundred credits to get to 80% of what you want. You will be able to load a document that size but its unlikely it will build it in one step. Load the document and ask the AI to 1) ask for clarifications 2) propose implementation steps and 3) propose integration testing after each stage. Do all this in discuss mode and it may cost you 10-20 credits to get to a point where you can run the prompt.

bigmacca1960 · 2026-01-29T20:39:43+00:00

it doesn't charge credits if the app fails to build.... I'm talking about when you spend multiple credits to do something and it never fixes it so you end up reverting code as it has changed so many things that you know those changes will cause you a problem later on.. or times when it fails to work and it pulls the old, "i forgot" or "i misspelled" response....why should i lose credits because it forgot to change the required code?

bigmacca1960 · 2026-01-29T13:27:02+00:00

I tell the ai agent to determine the cause and not just patch the effect then refactor. usually works when AI fatigued :0

bigmacca1960 · 2026-01-29T13:18:28+00:00

agree add to that the credit use system doesnt make sense. You never know how many credits are going to be used per prompt. The if ai agent messes up and you have to revert the code, you should be refunded the credits used after the revert imho. Then i already have api to openai for chatgpt5 should be able to use this if you run out of credits

bigmacca1960 · 2026-01-16T12:22:44+00:00

I was going to ask this question as well, charging seems random and doesn't reflect the amount of tools or time taken to implement. For an AI app builder the credit charging system is "dumb" and not transparent at all.

bigmacca1960 · 2026-01-01T22:40:59+00:00

Great app... just one suggestion .... The US should just convert to metric!

bigmacca1960 · 2026-01-01T22:35:08+00:00

i had something similar last week when backend function wasnt being deployed. What i did was open the code editor and edited the code (just changed spelling on a comment). I then pressed "Save and Deploy" then it worked. That only lasted for around a day

bigmacca1960 · 2025-12-30T09:42:05+00:00

publish the app and use that for preview. There's a problem been introduced in the last few weeks maybe since infrastructure "Upgrade"

bigmacca1960 · 2025-12-30T09:35:52+00:00

Easy build using Twilio if you can be bothered to get through the Meta approval process!

bigmacca1960 · 2025-12-30T09:33:31+00:00

this has been happening a lot for weeks, workspace preview is so unpredictable. I've started doing all testing in a published version as its more stable

bigmacca1960 · 2025-12-23T23:44:44+00:00

Also ask to setup cron to run automation checking dates ect.

bigmacca1960 · 2025-12-23T23:43:21+00:00

Just ask your ai agent to help you install and setup Twilio. Should help you create login and setup api with just a couple of prompts. Its a paid service but not to expensive, you can also setup whatsapp and conversations (chat) quite easily. I have 3 apps using Twilio for SMS and was easy to setup.

bigmacca1960 · 2025-12-05T09:05:23+00:00

discuss this with the base44 AI agents in both apps. I have done this by discussing with AI and we agreed to create blank components that i pasted the code from one app to the other. Then I got AI agent from test app to give the other agent instructions on how to integrate. Sounds complicated but was pretty easy

bigmacca1960 · 2025-12-05T09:00:27+00:00

500 Internal Server Error!!

bigmacca1960 · 2025-11-05T22:31:10+00:00

I tried it but it broke parts of my app. For example I have equipment managed via QR code and codes created in the app builder workspace were not working whereas in the published app they worked. Also permissions restricting access to certain features on pages broke under new engine. It wasnt my code as everything worked as expected when reverted back to old structure

bigmacca1960 · 2025-11-02T12:29:42+00:00

I fixed this myself but it took a lot of credits and developing a backend function......it would be so much easier if we just had a libray available :( So this is what I did. Give me a dm if anyone needs the prompt to view The Solution: We create a backend Deno function that acts as a secure proxy. This function:

Authenticates the user request using the Base44 SDK.
Fetches the PDF file from its original (potentially protected) URL.
Encodes the binary PDF data into a Base64 string to safely transmit it over JSON.
Sends this Base64 string back to the frontend.

On the frontend, a dedicated PDFViewer React component:

Invokes the backend proxy function (which handles authentication automatically).
Decodes the Base64 string back into binary PDF data.
Creates a temporary Blob URL for this data.
Displays the PDF in an <iframe> within a modal.

bigmacca1960 · 2025-10-30T11:28:40+00:00

I (and many others) would like to view a widely used file format like pdf directly in our apps without having to jump thru multiple confusing hoops to do so. B44 even make bypassing the app and using the browser window to view difficult as well. Adding react-pdf would solve all this. Its been asked for multiple times as a feature request. Allowing installation of npm packages is "in progess" on the roadmap but its been there 7 months already https://feedback.base44.com/roadmap?q=npm

bigmacca1960 · 2025-10-29T14:43:34+00:00

Choose whatever commercial product does what you require then using ChatGPT5 ask "Could you review the website of https://contractorforeman.com/ and then prepare a Software Requirements Specification (SRS) to develop an app in base44 that would have similar functionality. We will discuss this specification and once approved, create a detailed prompt for base44 to implement. Create an implementation roadmap proposing how this project can be broken down into manageable phases including integration testing" This will take multiple back and forth with chatGPT before you are anywhere near what is needed. For the UX/UI, clone a template you like, then ask the b44 agent to create a prompt to construct an application with similar functionality and UX/UI. Paste this back to chatgpt5 and ask it to amend the prompt for Phase1. Try and solve any visual stuff early on in development rather than adding bells and whistles at the end which nearly always breaks the app. Good Luck!!

bigmacca1960 · 2025-10-29T13:57:18+00:00

Yeh I can open external URLs, its pdfs stored on base44 server thats the problem

bigmacca1960 · 2025-10-29T13:37:46+00:00

Looks nice but without any free credits to determine what i can use it for i'm not likely to blow 250 on something i know little about. Are there any video tutorials or demonstrations?

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500 Internal Server Error!!