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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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Come build with us at the Agentic Banking Hackathon
The @Airwallex Agentic Banking Hackathon will launch during SF Tech Week (Oct 5). Prize pool is now $70k (up from $50k).
Product partners: @Visa @claudeai @coinbase @metalntwx @t0finance @AWS @Base44
Get a head start: airwallexdev.com
Build window: 3 weeks
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Base44 retweeted
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
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Base44 retweeted
@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…
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Compare models is open to everyone for free!
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Reply to this post with a screenshot of the results + tell us which model you liked better.
We'll pick 10 comment to get 300 credits each.
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Feature is available for free today from 9AM–3PM ET for your first 5 prompts.
10 winners will be chosen randomly from eligible entries; each winner receives 300 credits. One entry per person.
We may change or end this offer at any time. Not sponsored by, endorsed by, or affiliated with X.
Entries close Sep 22, 4PM ET.
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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.
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Base44 retweeted
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!
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Base44 retweeted
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!
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@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.
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