How it works

Makebase Gallery is a curated collection of real apps built with AI tools like Lovable, Bolt, Base44, Replit, and Claude — credited to their makers, running live, and one click away from becoming your own starting point. Here's everything worth knowing, in plain language.

Browsing & previews

The gallery is a grid of apps. Use the filter chips to narrow by the tool an app was built with, or by category (tools, games, dashboards, client work, fun). Filters change the page address, so a filtered view can be shared like any link.

Open any app and you'll usually see it actually running right on the page — not a screenshot. That's a real copy of the app, served from a separate, isolated sandbox. It can't see who you are, can't read anything in your browser, and can't send data anywhere. Play with it freely.

Some apps show a screenshot instead, marked "needs a backend." Those apps depend on a server or database that can't safely run inside a preview — the picture and the maker's description stand in, and the remix routes still work.

Remixing an app

Remixing means: take a working copy of this app into your own building tool, and make it yours. You don't need to know how to code, and you don't need the maker's permission — every listed app is already licensed for exactly this.

What you get is the app's complete code as a fresh starting point: rename things, restyle it, rip out half of it, point it at your own idea. Your copy is fully independent — nothing you do affects the original. The original maker keeps credit for the app you started from, and remix counts are shown publicly, so great starting points rise.

What remixing is not: it doesn't copy the maker's data, accounts, or anything private — listings are scrubbed before they go up (see For makers).

Remix steps, per builder

Bolt or Replit — one click

Click Open in Bolt or Open in Replit. The tool opens with the app's code already imported, ready to edit or prompt against. That's the whole flow.

Lovable or Base44 — two short routes

These tools can't import a project in one click yet, so the Remix button opens a small guide with two routes:

Fast route (recommended): copy the ready-made rebuild prompt from the guide, open the tool, and paste it as your first prompt. The tool rebuilds the app for you, referencing the original's code — you're editing within a minute or two, and the result is fully yours.

Exact-code route: download the ZIP, create a project in the tool, connect GitHub in the tool's settings, and put these files into the repository it creates. This gives you the code exactly as-is rather than a rebuild. It's a few more steps; the guide walks through them.

Any other tool — the ZIP

Download ZIP gives you the full code to use anywhere: Claude, Cursor, your own editor, anything that can read files.

For makers: getting listed

Built something with a vibe-coding tool? Submit it. A human reviews every submission — expect a yes/no within about a week. We look for apps that work, show range, and would make good starting points for others.

If it's a yes, here's exactly what happens to your code:

We make a copy of your repository in the gallery's own account, and scrub it: passwords, API keys, personal data, and analytics IDs are removed, and any real data is replaced with obvious placeholder data. Your original repository is never touched. Your listing shows your name, links to you and your original code, and your own 2–3 sentences on how you made it — we'll ask for those when we say yes.

You keep ownership of your work. Listing means agreeing that the scrubbed copy can be remixed under an open license (MIT by default — or tell us yours). Want your listing updated or taken down? Email us or reply to the acceptance message; removal is unconditional and prompt, though copies people already remixed remain theirs.

Credit & licensing

Every listing names its maker, links to them, and links to the source. Every remix records where it came from — lineage is public, and that's the point: the gallery is built so that being generous with your work grows your reputation rather than diluting it.

The default license is MIT, which in plain words means: anyone may use, change, and build on the code, for anything, including commercially — with no warranty, and keeping the license notice. A maker can choose a different open license at submission; each listing states which license applies.

Privacy & safety

The gallery has no accounts and sets no tracking cookies. When you click a remix button we record that a remix happened — which app, which builder, what country the click came from, and the time. We don't record who you are, and we never store IP addresses.

Previews run in a locked sandbox on a separate domain: they can't access your browser's data, can't make network calls, and can't interact with the gallery itself. Even so, previews are other people's code — don't type real passwords or personal information into one. To use an app for real, remix it or visit the maker's own site.

FAQ

Is this free?

Yes — browsing, remixing, and getting listed are all free, and staying that way.

Do you host my app for real users?

No. Previews are for exploring, not production. Your app's real home is wherever you (or your builder) deploy it. Hosting-adjacent things — version history, backups, portfolios — are what we're building next.

Why does an app open in a builder I don't use?

Each listing offers the remix targets its code works well in. The ZIP always works, whatever you build with.

Something's broken — a preview won't load, a remix link is dead.

Links to outside tools occasionally change under us. Tell us via the submit form (mention it's a bug report) and it'll be fixed quickly — every link is also checked automatically each week.

Someone listed my app without asking.

That shouldn't happen — listing requires the maker's own submission and permission. If you see your work listed and you didn't agree, contact us and it comes down immediately, no questions.

Who runs this?

A small independent team (currently: very small). The gallery is curated by hand, which is why it's fifty good apps and not five thousand random ones.