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2AM Fixes Before Launch
No AI templates. Just sketches, coffee stains, and 16px fixes.
Everyone shows the final perfect site. No one shows the 2AM part.
This was 11:47pm last night. Desk lamp on, third coffee gone cold, Figma still open in the background.
I was stuck on spacing. Something felt off. So I went back to paper — sketched the Home screen, the onboarding flow, the CTA again by hand.
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Daylight Digital — Your Personal Tech Concierge
Turns vague requests for digital organization and personal AI help into prepared, confirmed appointments without manual owner coordination.
Public link: https://ironwooddesignbuild.lovable.app/
Overview:
For Ironwood Design & Build, I automated appointment text reminders and quote follow-ups to reduce sales-process stress, saving a busy solo contractor hours of manual admin work each week.
Business and Build Details:
Ironwood Design & Build
Marcus Vance is a solo deck and hardscape contractor who runs his entire business from his phone in his truck. He has no office and no assistant.
The quirks:
- He drives 45 minutes across Austin for afternoon estimates, only to find the homeowner forgot.
- He writes $15,000 quotes, then gets back on a job site and never follows up.
- New inquiries wait a day or more for a reply, and some book a faster competitor.
The problem solved: The mobile app took the stress out of the sales process by automating appointment text reminders and quote follow-ups, saving a busy solo contractor 14+ hours a week of manual admin work.
What Ironwood Command does:
Home: A calm, mobile-first command center showing hours reclaimed, protected revenue, and a live log of what the app handled automatically.
Day: Every booked visit gets a reminder with one tap to confirm or reschedule. Silent clients get escalated before Marcus leaves, so he never drives to an empty house.
Quotes: Each sent quote runs on an autopilot follow-up sequence of check-ins and nearby project photos, and Marcus can override any step.
Before: About 14.5 hours a week spent replying to inquiries, texting confirmations, driving to no-shows, and chasing quotes.
After: New inquiries become confirmed visits, quotes get followed up automatically, and Marcus only steps in for exceptions.