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Pawsitively Groomed is a mobile dog groomer working a 15-mile radius around Bristol. The owner, Maria, runs it solo, one van, 5 to 6 dogs a day, and currently books everything through Instagram DMs and a paper diary. That costs her roughly 7 hours a week in manual back-and-forth, plus 3 to 4 no-shows a month, each one a wasted slot and a wasted drive across town.
The core problem generic booking tools don't solve for a mobile business is that an available slot isn't just a free spot on the clock, it's a spot she can physically get to. So the build's centrepiece is a travel-time-aware availability engine: every slot offered to a customer is checked against real drive-time buffers to the jobs immediately before and after it, not just checked against the calendar.
Connected services do the rest of the work:
Stripe (test mode): new customers pay a small deposit to confirm, directly targeting the no-show problem; returning customers skip straight through.
Resend: scheduled email reminders (48hr and 2hr before), confirmations, and waitlist offers go out automatically, with one-tap confirm/reschedule/cancel links, instead of Maria texting people one by one.
Automated waitlist matching: when someone cancels, the freed slot is offered to the closest matching customer on the waitlist and can be claimed in one tap, refilling the day with no input from Maria.
Her dashboard shows the day as a route, not a list, with drive times between stops, tight-buffer warnings, and anything actually needing her attention, so a normal day requires zero manual scheduling work.
Net result: an inbound "can I book a groom?" becomes a confirmed, deposit-secured, geographically workable appointment in under a minute, and roughly 7 hours a week handed back to a solo owner who used to spend her evenings on DMs and reminders.
Built in Lovable. Demo video edited with Claude Code's /brag.
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