Base44

14 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 6, 2025 by Maor Shlomo · said 85 times in 3 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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Jul 6, 2025 positive
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Shlomo: MongoDB is ideal for vibe coding because AI models frequently change schemas
“MongoDB is really good when you're vibe coding, especially when you're building a vibe coding platform, because schemas change a lot and it's not necessarily like users, LLMs don't always understand what the user is trying to send. So they keep changing the da…”
Maor Shlomo Jul 6, 2025 ▶ 1:09:51 Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
Jul 6, 2025
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Shlomo: Intermediate specification steps diminish the 'aha moment' in vibe coding
“I think one of the key to the aha moment in the vibe coding world, or at least in base 44 is like, Holy shit. Like it actually understood me and you see the app. And if you have like a stage in the middle, it makes a surprise, like slightly less surprising. An…”
Maor Shlomo Jul 6, 2025 ▶ 1:16:58 Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
Jul 6, 2025
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Shlomo: Base44 generated close to $200K in profit in May
“And then started like, I think first dollar or like the first 10 or a hundred bucks were towards March. And then in May, I already did a close to 200 K in profit.”
Maor Shlomo Jul 6, 2025 ▶ 29:43 Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
Jul 6, 2025
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Shlomo: Base44 jumped from 20 to 4,000 daily signups in one week
“I think there was like two weeks between, no, a week between having, like being on a pace of like, 20 users a day to seeing 4000 users come into your product, like new users a day break the product.”
Maor Shlomo Jul 6, 2025 ▶ 47:23 Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
Jul 6, 2025
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Shlomo: First hire at Base44 was a technical product manager
“Actually a product person. Yeah, well, it's someone was, I have, I've been working with a lot and he's like a jack of all trades. So he can go into like LLM logs and look at like mistakes and fix the prompts. He can write a Python script to analyze things that…”
Maor Shlomo Jul 6, 2025 ▶ 59:31 Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
Jul 6, 2025 positive
Insight
Shlomo: Product shipping velocity acts as a core startup growth and marketing engine
“It's like velocity solves for so many things. Like most of my thoughts are when, and still are, when running Base-Forty-Forty-Forty is like, how do we increase velocity? How do we increase velocity? It's going to solve, or every product problem we have, or mos…”
Maor Shlomo Jul 6, 2025 ▶ 1:07:49 Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
Jul 6, 2025
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Shlomo fueled Base44 growth by trading app-build credits for social posts
“And so what I did is I actually, I did this program inside Baseball saying, hey, if you share just about the process of building the app or the app itself, it doesn't even have to be about Baseball. If you share it in social, you will get extra credits to buil…”
Maor Shlomo Jul 6, 2025 ▶ 46:53 Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
Jul 6, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Shlomo: The $80M Wix acquisition for Base44 included an earn-out structure
“It's like, okay, there's like the AD mil that got published. That's the initial payment. And then there's this air note piece, which is really interesting because I think they weak structure the deal in a really win-win situation. But then a lot of my compensa…”
Maor Shlomo Jul 6, 2025 ▶ 58:51 Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
Jul 6, 2025
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Shlomo wrote zero front-end code for Base44, relying entirely on AI
“I don't think I've written a single line of like HTML or JavaScript in the past three months, but still like the base for the full front end changes a lot because AI writes that.”
Maor Shlomo Jul 6, 2025 ▶ 33:27 Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
Jul 6, 2025 bullish
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Shlomo: Base44 reached $1.5M ARR in roughly four weeks
“If we get to 1.5 million dollars in ARR till the end of 2025 we're gonna buy a nice car. And we got there in, like, four weeks”
Maor Shlomo Jul 6, 2025 ▶ 37:52 Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
Jul 6, 2025 positive
Insight
Shlomo: Claude excels at UI while Gemini is better for complex algorithms
“Claude for example, does a really nice job with first the initial prompt, like writing the app from scratch. Then everything that has to do with UI is just fantastic. Like design is great. But then for example, Gemini is really good when you get to a very comp…”
Maor Shlomo Jul 6, 2025 ▶ 1:13:31 Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
Jul 6, 2025 positive
Insight
Shlomo: Full-stack built-in architecture outperforms third-party integrations for AI-coded apps
“As the nature of an integration, I think it's potentially slightly less strong than building everything full stack built in. And once we did that, and actually I engineered the endpoints and the SDKs and whatever to work well with LLMs. I think Base-Forty-Fort…”
Maor Shlomo Jul 6, 2025 ▶ 6:50 Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
Jul 6, 2025
Disclosure
Shlomo: Base44 grew with near-zero marketing spend after paid ads failed
“Like base for the full goal with close to zero marketing budget. I spent like 2000 dollars on an influencer post that didn't really bring anything and then tried paid for like a couple of thousands of bucks. Didn't really work. And so everything was like organ…”
Maor Shlomo Jul 6, 2025 ▶ 34:43 Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
Jul 6, 2025 bullish
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Shlomo: Base44 turns every new user into two to four more
“And for every user that we get, it turns out to be two or four later on because they're sharing it.”
Maor Shlomo Jul 6, 2025 ▶ 1:31:05 Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
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