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🏷️ Business name - SGK Photography · Boulder, Colorado 📸🏔️
💡 Problem solved - SGK Grad turns "are you free the 9th?" DMs into paid, confirmed golden-hour grad sessions, with no back-and-forth for a one-person studio.
🎓 The business & its quirks - A solo graduation photographer who shoots CU Boulder grads, often at Norlin Quad and Chautauqua.
☀️ She only shoots the last hour of daylight, so there are about 3 slots an evening and sunset shifts every day.
📆 Every grad wants the same two weeks around commencement.
👯 Friend groups try to book through five different group chats.
⛈️ Afternoon storms roll off the Flatirons, so she's always rescheduling.
👻 Inquiries go quiet, and a no-show burns a prime slot.
🛠️ What I built
Front door (clients): pick a package, then a date. Every time slot comes from Boulder's real sunset timing. Full dates show a waitlist and quiet weeknights get nudged. A short intake replaces the discovery call. Clients drop in photo inspo and AI reads back their vibe and color palette. A deposit locks the date. ✅
Grad crews: one shareable link where friends tap the times they can make, vote on spots, pick must-have moments and split the deposit. 🤝
Owner Studio: bookings land on their own. Confirmations, prep guides, weather checks and map pins are scheduled automatically. Storms get flagged with one-tap "offer new time." Quiet leads get follow-ups, and every booking comes with an AI draft shot list.
app link: https://sgkgrad.lovable.app
social post: https://x.com/shayna_kliger/status/2105061416873157069?s=20
updated social post: https://x.com/shayna_kliger/status/2105061727725588528?s=20
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