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AJ, a 15-year-old developer and Base44 Partner in Belfast. 20+ apps shipped for real clients, one Best Build won with my dad, and a stack of free guides for Base44 builders.
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Catch up on the blog
9 min read
My Base44 functions synced from GitHub but never deployed. Here's the fix
On 4 October my GitHub sync copied two Base44 backend functions into my app, I published, and both still answered 404 "not found or not deployed". How to test a function with curl, redeploy it with the CLI or one Apps API call, read secrets and logs properly, and catch bugs first with Deno.
9 min read
How I pipe Base44 Partner leads into my own CRM with a signed webhook
My Base44 Partner leads land in my own CRM through a backend function with a public URL, so it checks every delivery first. Signing is required (no secret, 503), the HMAC is checked on raw bytes in constant time, retries are skipped by event id, and a failed save returns 500 so Base44 tries again.
8 min read
How to get cited in AI Overviews: what I'm doing for my own name
Google says AI Overviews need no special schema or AI files: a page just has to be indexed and eligible for a snippet. So for my own name I'm removing everything that makes "Aatman Jain" ambiguous, from a wrong canonical to AI-written fallback text and mismatched profiles. No citations yet. Here's the plan.
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