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I built a booking prototype for a small nail studio that reduces the back-and-forth of scheduling appointments. Clients can explore services, get recommendations, book for themselves or with guests, choose availability, pay a demo deposit, and manage, reschedule, or cancel their booking. The goal is to make the process easier for clients while reducing manual work for the studio.
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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.
For the #lovablechallenge "Fix the follow-through" brief, I designed and built a tool for Fresh Start Cleaning Co., a fictional solo cleaning business in Brunswick, Melbourne. Based on a real pain point in the cleaning industry.
The owner, Dani, works jobs from 7am to 4pm, so customer enquiries pile up in her inbox all day. Nobody writes "urgent" in the subject line, which means she opens and replies to every email one by one, and by the time she reaches the real urgent request, such as an end of lease inspection tomorrow, it is hours old and the customer has booked someone else.
I solved this with a dashboard where Dani sets her own keywords, like "inspection", "tomorrow" or "first thing", and urgent enquiries rise to the top with the matched words highlighted. When a customer uses a phrase she hasn't covered yet, she adds it in seconds.
The result is that she goes from opening six emails to find one urgent request, to opening none, and cuts roughly an hour of daily triage down to a few minutes.
I treated it like a real client brief, from persona and pain points through to the UX and the build in Lovable, using n8n integration and Supabase for the database. Built with @Lovable.
Try the build with demo login details: demodashboard@gmail.com | dashboard