# PRD for Base44 — spec your app before you prompt it

> Turn your app idea into a Base44-ready spec: prioritized features, typed data model, and design tokens — so the app it generates matches your plan.

Canonical: https://draftlytic.com/prd-for/base44
Last updated: 2026-07-11

Base44 builds a working app from a prompt — frontend, backend, and database included — which means the quality of your brief determines the quality of what it generates. A one-line prompt leaves your data model, screens, and priorities open to interpretation, and the app that comes back reflects Base44's best guess, not your actual plan.

Draftlytic turns that one-line idea into a structured, editable spec first: prioritized features, a typed data model, a navigation map, design tokens, and an explicit non-goals list. Paste it in as your starting prompt instead of a paragraph and hope, so the app Base44 generates is closer to what you meant on the first pass.

## How a Draftlytic PRD fits Base44

- Prioritized features (must-have first) let you point Base44 at the core app before layering on extras.
- The typed data model gives Base44 concrete entities and fields to build its database around, instead of inventing its own.
- Design tokens (theme colors, fonts, design style) steer the generated UI toward what you actually pictured.
- The screen and navigation map tells Base44 which views to build and how they connect.
- Explicit Non-Goals stop Base44 from adding features you never asked for in its first pass.
- Export the spec as Markdown and paste it in as your build prompt, or keep it open to reference as you refine the generated app.

## FAQ

### How do I use a Draftlytic spec with Base44?

Export the PRD as Markdown and paste it in as your first prompt, or keep it open to reference as you refine the app Base44 generates afterward.

### Why not just describe the app to Base44 directly?

A one-line prompt leaves data model, screens, and priorities undefined, so Base44 has to guess. A structured spec gives it concrete details to build from on the first pass.

### Is Draftlytic free to use before I try Base44?

Yes — free to start, no card required. Generate the spec, review it, then bring it to Base44.