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Meet Paw Calm — a booking experience for dog grooming businesses built to remove the endless back-and-forth between clients and groomers.
Booking a grooming appointment often starts with messages like:
“Is this your first visit?”
“Does your dog get nervous?”
“What condition is the coat in?”
“How much time should I book?”
“What time works?”
Paw Calm turns that chaos into one simple flow.
Clients enter their dog’s details, temperament and grooming needs once. The system uses that information to determine the appropriate appointment duration, shows only the time slots that actually fit, and saves the dog’s profile to make future bookings even faster.
On the groomer side, everything arrives already structured — appointment details, duration, client information and follow-ups — without digging through messages or manually piecing everything together.
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• A live job page, plus a My Visits account with every visit, quote and receipt
• One tap to confirm "I'll be home" or accept a quote
For the owner
• The whole day on one screen: what needs you, what the front desk handled, the route and time saved
• Hold to talk after a job. The voice note becomes the receipt, the quote and follow-ups on day 2, 7 and 14.
• Both sides update live, so there's no phone tag
Built with Lovable and Lovable Cloud, ElevenLabs for the voice agent and transcription, and Gemini to write up each job.
Try it: dial-frontdesk.lovable.app
The customer side has a shared demo account, so you can tap around and watch the owner's side update live.
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Can a designer push Lovable as hard as any design tool?
Yes, and the method is simpler than you'd think. Three steps. I'll show each one on real slides from this challenge.
First, why I'm back. I sat out the last couple of challenges: I needed a real break, and other projects needed me more. I hadn't opened Lovable in a bit over a year. When this one landed, I thought: let's see if a designer can take it to the limit, the way I do with every other tool. So far, it's holding.
The client is Endorphin, a run club in Turin. Every Thursday, 19:00, under the Arco del Valentino, free, any pace. Here's the method.
1. Design every state before you prompt. Default, hover, spots left, full, waitlist, booked, past. Look at the third slide: each chip is a different state of the same event, "You're in", "23 left", "31 going". If a state isn't designed, Lovable guesses it. So I never leave it a guess.
2. Write the prompt like a spec. Real sizes, real colors, real timings. Mine says things like: the slide takes 480ms, easing cubic-bezier(0.2, 0.8, 0.2, 1), no bounce. Then I attach the Figma export of that exact state and write "match this pixel for pixel". That's how the calendar on the last slide got its hover: the cell lifts, a preview card shows cover, time, place and spots left, and Book sits right there.
3. One prompt at a time. I send a piece, compare it with my board, and only then send the next. The phone view on slide two came out that way: a booking sheet with two fields and one line, "No account. No password. Just show up." Above it, a molecule where every dot is a moment from a Thursday.
The first slide shows the result of all three: the whole night as single cards. Price, distance, time, meeting point, crowd. One idea each.
The tool is only as sharp as the brief you give it.
If you've built with an AI tool: where did you hit the wall first, design or logic?
great designs, all made in lovable right?