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Newborn photos have a deadline. They need to happen in the baby's first 14 days. The problem is nobody knows which 14 days.
My friend Ananya photographs newborns in Bengaluru and runs her studio alone.
Families book her months ahead with only a due date.
Then the baby arrives, often at 3am, and the texting starts: "can you come Saturday?" "my mother's flying in" "Sunday?"
In real conversations it takes months to agree on a day. By then the baby is a month old.
So I built Tiny Hours with @Lovable
What it does
Families book with their due date. One booking plans the baby's first year: maternity, newborn, six months and first birthday.
When the baby arrives, the parents send the message they'd send anyway, in English or Hinglish: "She's here! Born last night at 3:10, going home Friday."
Tiny Hours reads the birth time and going-home date, books the newborn shoot on the best free morning between day 5 and 14, and moves the later shoots to the real birthday. Ananya doesn't have to reply.
Twins, NICU stays and unclear messages go to her, and she picks the date in one tap.
Prep notes, photos-ready messages and later invites go out on their own. One switch pauses every message to a family.
She takes six due dates a month at most, so the calendar never overfills.
The AI only reads messages. Dates come from fixed rules, and all 8 rules and 6 message types are tested on a public checks page.
The demo uses sample families.
Open the demo page, send the arrival message from the parent's phone, and watch her calendar fill in:
https://tiny-hours.lovable.app
Built with @Lovable #lovablechallenge
Hope you guys like it, because my friend Ananya definitely did.
All thanks to @Lovable
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