Logic the platform will not express
The rule your business genuinely depends on is the one thing the builder cannot represent, so it gets approximated — and the approximation is wrong in a way that matters.
App rescue · Base44
Base44 got you most of the way and then stopped being the answer
Base44 is fast at assembling something that works within its own environment. The trouble arrives at the edges: custom logic it will not express, data you need elsewhere, and the question of what you actually own.
What actually breaks
The four failures we see most in Base44 builds
These are specific to Base44. A rescue starts by working out which of them you have.
Data you cannot get at
Records live inside the platform with no clean export, which becomes urgent the moment you need reporting, an integration, or to leave.
Authorisation that is coarser than your product
Everyone is effectively an admin, or the permission model cannot express the distinction your customers actually need.
No clear ownership story
You cannot answer what happens to the product if the platform changes its pricing, its terms, or its mind. For anything you intend to raise money on, that is a real risk.
What we do
What a rescue includes
Scoped after the audit, so you see the plan and the price before anything is touched.
Your data exported and migrated into a database you control
The business rules the platform could not express, implemented properly
A permission model that matches how your product actually works
Deployment onto your own infrastructure and accounts
Full code ownership, documented and handed over
The first look is free
A written audit within 24 hours
Send the live link or the repository. You get back what is salvageable, what is not, and what it would cost to reach production — yours to keep whether or not you hire us.
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Twenty minutes, free, and you get the written findings within 24 hours whether or not you hire us.
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FAQ
Base44 rescue questions
Can I get my data and logic out of Base44?+
Data, almost always — through the platform's export or its API. Logic usually has to be reimplemented rather than moved, because it exists as platform configuration rather than as portable code. The audit tells you the real size of that job.
Should I rebuild or stay on the platform?+
Stay if it does what you need and you are comfortable with the dependency; there is no prize for leaving a tool that works. Move when the platform is blocking the product, or when ownership has become a commercial issue — for a fundraise, an enterprise customer, or a compliance requirement.
What does the free audit actually include?+
We look at the real thing — the live app or the repository, not a description of it — and send back a written assessment within 24 hours: what is salvageable, what is not, what it would cost to get to production, and what we would do first. It is yours to keep whether or not you hire us.
Do I own the code after you fix it?+
Yes. You own the repository, the infrastructure and every account it runs on, with documentation and a handover. That is true of a rescue exactly as it is of a build.
Send us a Base44 app and we will tell you what is wrong with it
No obligation, no deck. If it is not worth rescuing we will say so, and tell you what we would do instead.
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