Triggers vs schedules: why polling every ten minutes backfires The most common thing I see in a new Superagent by @Base44 setup is a schedule that runs every ten minutes. Check my email every ten minutes, check the repo every ten minutes. It runs, which is not the same as working. It runs six times an hour to find out that nothing happened, and every one of those runs spends message credits. The cost is the smaller problem. If the connected service starts rate limiting you, runs stop finishing and start queueing behind each other, so the thing you wanted at 9:04 arrives at 9:40 with the backlog behind it. Use a schedule when the work actually belongs to a clock. A morning brief, or a report that goes out every Monday. Anything that should happen because something happened belongs on a trigger. Triggers fire when your data changes or when there is activity in a connected tool, so the agent moves at the moment of the change instead of ten minutes after it. Same outcome, a fraction of the runs, and nothing piled up behind itself.

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When testing early testing Opus 5.5 (which I was sure was a new Fable btw) I decided to take my voxel builder prompt to the next level - now with a voice activated AI companion. And it worked! uses @Base44's native integrations + our game engine Link in comments

Opus 5.5 is out and now available on Base44. For the next two hours, compare models for free to put it head-to-head with your favorite models and see which one comes out on top.

@Base44 + BASE1 + Base Superagent = BASE1: FIRST ASSAULT 🎮 The Triple B technique. BBB. Because apparently building a game also requires naming the workflow 😂 Every new LLM gets the “build a game with one prompt” test. Mine wasn’t one prompt. It was a collaboration: **Base44:** the platform I built on. **BASE1:** the LLM building the game. **Base Superagent:** provided the assets and sent the prompts. My part? Play, spot problems, change my mind and repeat. That became a battlefield you can watch from above, then jump into as an ordinary orange soldier. Trenches, mechanical spiders, flying enemies and cargo-ship reinforcements. Not one prompt, and that’s both good and bad. More hands-on iteration, but I could see results quickly, fix what wasn’t right and build piece by piece instead of waiting days for a loop to finish. I use agent loops too. But getting there without a mortgage-sized bill was a welcome bonus, not the main story. The main story is what these three could do together. BBB. And a guy who kept asking for more spaceships. Game link -> base1first-assault.base44.ap…

Tomorrow the models are on trial and you're the judge. Compare Models is open for free to everyone! Tuesday, Sep 22, 9AM–3PM ET. Base44 builds your request on two models. You pick the winner. We'll be giving away 10,000 credits across all platforms so come back tomorrow for all the details.

Your Base44 Superagent can now make phone calls. It calls, chases the answer, and coordinates with people for you. Give it a multi-step goal and it's still working after you close the chat. Get your Superagent on Base44.

We're live in 1 hour 15! Join us for our final session of Lilly's guest hosted Design week as we launch our weekend Vibe Sprint. Can you redesign the app template and win $500? Link below!

Cook a website in 10 minutes 🧑‍🍳

It's design week at Base44: 3 community sessions on design sprints and systems, then a live redesign challenge Thursday to Monday with cash prize for the winner. Join our Discord or head to the Community tab in your Base44 dashboard for all the details.

We're live in 1 hour 30! Today I'm joined my @ME_Superagent to show off all things new with our Superagents! RSVP on Basecamp now - Link below!

iPhone Duo came just in time for comparing models

@Base44 is going global! We have officially launched communities for speakers of Spanish, Portuguese, and Japanese (links to join below). Communities for non-english speakers has been one of most consistent requests, and now we can support builders all over the world. These communities feature weekly educational and how-to programming, as well as day-to-day chit chat and trouble shooting in your native language.

Run your business with Base44’s Superagent when fast isn’t fast enough. The more you work with it, the sharper it gets.