“Also I created a game in base 44 which helped me”
Base44
By Maor Shlomo
2 recommend/use · 4 sourced episodes
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Short attributed excerpts only. Timestamps are approximate.
“I also just had the founder of base 44 on the podcast”
“I recently had a founder on the podcast uh uh Mayor who built this company called base 44.”
“Base 44 is an AI AI app building platform”
“just try it out base44.com and build something that you like”
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