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Built a conversion-focused digital experience for an artisan café brand, designed to drive reservations, menu exploration, and repeat visits. Positioned the brand with a premium, storytelling-led interface that blends product craftsmanship with clear conversion paths like “Explore Menu” and “Book a Table.” Optimized the user journey to reduce friction and capture high-intent customers, while reinforcing brand identity through clean design and curated visuals. The platform is mobile-first and performance-driven, enabling the business to scale its local presence, increase bookings, and build a loyal, returning customer base.
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Marea — Private Yacht Charter
Booking a yacht sounds simple.
Until a guest wants a sunset dinner for six.
Now someone has to check availability, coordinate the yacht and chef, confirm the menu, collect dietary requirements, arrange the extras, and keep an eye on the weather.
For a small charter business, that can mean a lot of back-and-forth before a booking is actually confirmed.
So I built Marea around a simple idea:
The guest should choose the experience. Marea should handle the coordination.
Instead of starting with a long inquiry form, guests can build their trip visually, choosing the destination, date, yacht, experience, dining options, and preferences through one guided flow.
Behind the scenes, the concierge gets everything they need in one place: guest details, preferences, special requests, payment, and trip status.
And because sailing doesn't always go according to plan, Marea also brings weather and rescheduling into the booking experience.
One booking. Boat, chef, dinner, and everything in between.
This is stunning, sign me up, where do I book?! 😅
🏢 The Business & The "Greasy Hands" Dilemma:
We built DockFlow (Biscayne Marine OS) for Elena "Rico" Rossi, a solo mobile boat engine mechanic operating "Biscayne Mobile Marine" in Miami, Florida.
Elena drives a mobile workshop van to marinas and canal slips to repair high-performance boat engines (Yamaha, Mercury). But she faced a brutal daily dilemma:
The Greasy Hands Barrier: When working, both of her hands are covered in black engine grease inside noisy boat engine compartments. She physically cannot pick up her phone to answer customer calls.
The Traffic & No-Show Trap: Over 35% of boat owners would cancel after Elena had already driven 45 minutes across Miami bridge traffic in her work van.
Logistics Chaos: Between texting back and forth for marina security gate PINs, boat parking slip numbers, and checking if ocean tides were too shallow to run boat engines, Elena was losing 14+ hours every week just playing phone tag.
⚡ What We Built in Lovable:
We completely rebuilt the moment an inbound customer inquiry turns into a confirmed, paid booking without Elena ever touching her phone:
Marketing Landing Page (/): An executive business homepage with an interactive 3-slide hero carousel explaining the service, problems eliminated, and dockside repair guarantees.
Customer Fast-Track Booking (/book):
Real Microphone Voice Intake: Boaters stranded at a dock don't type long forms. They speak into their phone or record their engine's warning sound using HTML5 microphone capture, and the system extracts their boat specs and symptoms automatically.
Water Depth Safety Check: Verifies Biscayne Bay ocean tide levels (+1.8 ft flood tide) to ensure the water is deep enough to safely lower and test the boat engine without hitting mud.
Smart Neighborhood Routing: Groups appointments by marina cluster (Coconut Grove, Miami Beach) so Elena doesn't crisscross the city.
$175 Deposit Lock: Collects an upfront card deposit to eliminate no-shows.
Self-Service Reschedule & Cancel: Customers can reschedule or cancel in one tap without calling Elena.
Elena's Mission Control (/owner):
Sequential 1-2-3-4 Biscayne Bay route map.
Van Pre-Flight Inventory Matcher: Automatically checks Elena's van shelves (Bin 3B) for replacement cooling parts to guarantee 100% first-time fixes before she drives out.
One-tap status updates ("On the way", "Arrived", "Job Done") that send automated SMS updates to the customer.
Automatically archives completed repairs into a dedicated History & Invoices log.
Realtime Auto-Healing Waitlist Waterfall:
When a boater cancels last minute, a Supabase Realtime broadcast triggers an instant 5-minute countdown alert to the next standby boater in line (Capt. Marcus Vance), auto-filling the vacant spot with zero manual texting!
Miami Localization & Enterprise Polish:
Fully bilingual in English and Spanish (over 60% of South Florida boaters speak Spanish).
Light and Dark mode themes.
Powered by a scalable Supabase database backend.
📈 Measurable ROI:
⏱️ 14 Hours Saved Weekly in manual scheduling and phone tag.
🛡️ Zero No-Shows thanks to upfront card deposits.
🚗 2+ Hours Saved Daily in Miami bridge traffic via neighborhood clustering.
🔧 No Wasted Parts Runs with van inventory pre-flight matching.
Live App: https://dockflow-biscayne.lovable.app/
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Amazing! Love the backstory and a female boat mechanic with greasy hands. Well done.
A set of three social media designs created for the same café brand, featuring a consistent visual style, engaging layouts, and cohesive branding across the campaign.
Very playful and cohesive branding! Love the warm colours and fun typography. 🥜✨