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The Paper Challenge is officially LIVE and we can't wait to see what you create 🎨
Check out the guidelines here to get started on your build!
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What is paper, where links?
Does it require a credit card to join a contest?
If it's an AI thing do contestants get free tokens/credits and what are examples of how much quota is used to make things.
Etc etc etc
Paper is linked in the guidelines! There is no discount currently but we will share if one becomes available!
Still don't know what the service is.
and no free use means this isn't a hackathon it's straight up pay gated SPEC WORK where creatives have to pay for the privilege of making demos for someone elses benefit.
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is more than one submission per user fine? :)
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A calm, editorial landing page for an architecture studio, built around daylight and materials. We'd love to hear your thoughts! 🏛️
It's look professional good job 🎉🎉
My Experience with the Contra × Lovable Challenge 🚀
I joined the Contra × Lovable “Built It for Small Business” Challenge.
The idea sounded simple: join the challenge, receive 200 Lovable credits, build a working product, and submit it.
Here is how it actually went for me. 🙂
🎟️ Joined the challenge
Registration completed.
Challenge code received.
I already had a paid Lovable Pro account, but I couldn't find anywhere to redeem the code and receive the promised 200 credits.
🤔 Where do I enter the code?
I checked my account. Nothing.
I contacted support.
📩 Contra.
📩 Lovable.
Lovable replied and asked me to send my challenge code for verification.
I sent it.
⏳
The deadline was getting closer.
The challenge credits still weren't available.
So I stopped waiting and started building with my own paid Lovable credits.
🚀 And then the interesting part began
We built ONLINEDelux Automotive.
Not another booking form.
It is a privacy-first B2B interactive experience for automotive businesses.
A business owner can explore AI video services, keep only what fits, automatically create a private project brief, receive a Project ID and continue directly to a Private Project Review booking.
Explore → Keep → Brief → Book → You’re Booked.
No sales form first.
No unnecessary identity data.
No repeating the brief.
✨ The product worked.
Published. Tested. Booking completed.
That was the best moment of the challenge.
📤 Time to submit
Back to Contra.
Project information — added.
Public Lovable project — added.
Media — uploaded.
Required social post — published.
Social-post link — added.
Finally:
Complete submission.
Done! 🎉
Or… was it?
🤔 How do I know my entry was actually received?
No confirmation email arrived.
I checked my Contra account.
No submission receipt.
No visible entry ID.
No clear “Your submission has been successfully received.”
I checked the challenge page.
Submissions are now closed.
So once again:
📩 Email to Contra: Can you confirm that my submission was received?
📩 Email to Lovable: Can you see whether my project is registered as a challenge entry? Is there an entry ID?
⏳ Waiting again.
And this is where my challenge experience stands today.
Two things came out of this challenge
The first is a real product:
ONLINEDelux Automotive — a working privacy-first journey from exploring a service to a completed booking.
The second is a question:
Why is it so difficult for a participant to see the status of their own challenge journey?
Credits promised → Where are they? 🤔
Support request → Waiting. ⏳
Submission completed → Was it received? 🤔
Entry ID → Where can I find it? 🔎
None of these questions needs a complicated solution.
A participant dashboard showing:
Joined → Credits activated → Entry submitted → Submission ID → Eligible / Under review
would answer almost everything.
For now, I have the most important result:
The product exists. It works. And it is ours. 🚀
Now I'm waiting to find out whether the challenge knows that too. 🙂
Dr. Yulia B. · Founder, Onlinedelux
That works. If the screen recording clearly demonstrates the product, your written explanation can carry the “what I built and why” story.
Here’s a polished version you can use for your Contra challenge submission:
What I built & why
I built PawRoute, a smart booking and automation experience for a fictional solo mobile dog groomer, Maya, based in Austin, Texas.
I chose mobile dog grooming because booking isn't as simple as finding an empty calendar slot. Every new inquiry can require the owner to check the customer's location, understand the dog’s needs, recommend a service, calculate pricing, find a time that works with the driving route, confirm the appointment, send reminders, and handle cancellations.
I wanted to answer one question:
How can I turn “Can I book?” into “You’re booked” with as little work from the business owner as possible?
So I designed PawRoute around a simple 3-step customer booking experience. Customers provide their location and dog details, receive a recommended service with clear pricing, and choose from available appointment times.
I also created Best Route Match, which prioritizes appointments when Maya is already working nearby instead of treating every available time equally.
Behind the customer experience, PawRoute handles the repetitive work: booking confirmations, reminders, customer information, route updates, rescheduling, and automation activity.
I also designed an owner dashboard where Maya can see appointments, customers, her driving schedule, and what PawRoute has automated.
Finally, I added a cancellation-recovery workflow. When an appointment opens up, PawRoute can help identify suitable waitlisted customers and refill the slot instead of requiring Maya to manually message people.
The goal wasn't simply to build another booking website. It was to design a system where the customer sees simplicity while the complexity is handled behind the scenes.
3 steps for customers. Less scheduling work for Maya.
Built with Lovable for the Lovable Challenge.
