🌅 Portland doesn't cancel sunsets. It hides them.

For a photographer who only shoots in the last hour of sun, that's a problem no calendar can fix.

📸 HERON HOUR

Portland rain kept turning Maya's bookings into 16-message rescheduling threads. Heron Hour lets clients book a window of light instead of a date, and the real forecast picks the evening and reschedules it by itself.

Maya Reyes is a golden-hour portrait photographer in Portland, Oregon. Three locations. One hour of good light a day. No assistant.

Last fall, 11 of her 26 sessions were rained out. Every one became a 16-message thread. Weather checks. "Can we do Sunday?" Refunds. Re-confirmations. All answered between editing, driving to the coast, and sleep.

So I rebuilt the moment "can I book with you?" becomes "you're booked."

☀️ Clients book the light, not the date. They hold a window. The sky picks the evening.

• Live forecast → 16 real evenings scored from Open-Meteo, with the reason shown • Six readings → one evening, locked 72 hours out • Storm rolls in → every session re-docks itself, and the client gets one text • Three places → three recipes for light, down to the live low tide at Cannon Beach • Book → deposit held, calendar invite sent

🌙 And on Maya's side: • Any DM, email or text → read and answered in two seconds with three real evenings • One board of sessions docked to light, one log of everything the sky handled • A sandbox for judges: throw a storm, jump 72 hours, watch it all move on its own

Before: 16 messages for every rained-out evening. After: one text. Sent by the sky. Maya never saw it.

Maya's to-do list? Empty. ✨

Built with Lovable, on real Open-Meteo and NOAA data.

Try it 👇 Live: https://heronhour.lovable.app Code: https://github.com/omshukla24/heron-hour

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