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A CEO was losing time to scheduling conflicts, back-to-back meetings, overlapping priorities, and an unstructured calendar.
I reorganized the Google Calendar by resolving scheduling conflicts, prioritizing executive commitments, adding preparation and buffer blocks, restructuring recurring meetings, drafting professional rescheduling communications, and creating a sustainable weekly scheduling system.
The result is a streamlined calendar, improved time management, better meeting readiness, and a structured scheduling system that supports efficient operations and executive decision-making.
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Maya Ellis braids hair out of Suite 14 in Decatur, Atlanta. She's made up. Her problem isn't.
A knotless set can take 8 hours. While her hands are in someone's hair, her DMs fill up with "how much for knotless?" By the time she replies, half of them have booked somewhere else. And about 1 in 4 bookings without a deposit never show.
For the Lovable challenge, I rebuilt the inquiry-to-booking flow so Maya doesn't have to touch it.
How it works:
→ Two ways in from her bio link: chat with an assistant that answers price and time questions and books you, or tap straight through
→ Price, time in chair, and deposit shown before any times
→ Only start times where the full style actually fits
→ Deposit locks the slot, and the confirmation email goes out instantly
→ Every conversation lands in a leads tab, tagged booked or not booked
→ Cancelled slots go to the waitlist
→ Sick day? One tap moves every affected client
→ Daily cap on long styles, so her wrists last the week
Built entirely in Lovable. Demo below.
Live app Client Side: https://coil-and-crown-book.lovable.app/
Live app Owner Side: https://coil-and-crown-book.lovable.app/studio
@Lovable #lovablechallenge
Really smart build!
ChairPilot — From Inquiry to Booked Chair, Automatically 🦷
A patient messages a dental clinic:
“Can I book a whitening appointment this week?”
It sounds like a simple question.
But for a busy clinic, someone still has to figure out which dentist can perform the treatment, check working hours and lunch breaks, look for an available chair, confirm the time, send the patient the details, update the calendar, schedule reminders — and then do it all again if the patient needs to reschedule.
And when somebody cancels at the last minute, that empty chair can easily become lost time.
That is the problem I wanted to solve.
I built ChairPilot with @Lovable for Soma Dental Studio, a fictional three-dentist clinic in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Soma Dental has different dentists for general, cosmetic and orthodontic care. Each dentist has different working days, breaks, treatment eligibility and availability. The clinic also has to deal with rescheduling, reminders and last-minute cancellations.
The problem I solved in one line:
ChairPilot turns “Can I book?” into “You’re booked” by automating dentist matching, real availability, confirmations, calendar updates and cancellation recovery — so clinic staff only handle the exceptions.
Instead of sending messages back and forth, the patient chooses what they need and ChairPilot does the scheduling work behind the scenes.
It can:
match the treatment with qualified dentists
calculate real availability from working hours, breaks, time off, existing bookings and treatment duration
recheck the slot before confirmation to prevent double booking
send real Gmail confirmations and reminders
synchronize appointments with Google Calendar
let patients reschedule or cancel themselves
surface only the issues that actually need staff attention
use Smart Slot Rescue to match a cancelled chair with compatible patients on the waitlist
One of the parts I cared most about was making this feel like a real operational system rather than a booking-page mockup.
I tested competing booking requests for the same slot, hardened appointment state changes, connected real Gmail and Google Calendar workflows, tested cancellation and rescheduling, and built a secure public challenge mode so judges can explore the admin experience without being able to modify Soma Dental's clinic data.
The before
A patient asks for an appointment.
Staff check the treatment, dentist, schedule and availability manually.
They message times back and forth.
Then they confirm it, add it to Calendar, send reminders, handle changes and chase another patient if the chair becomes empty.
The after
A patient chooses a treatment.
ChairPilot → qualified dentist → real availability → confirmed booking → Gmail → Google Calendar → self-service changes → cancellation recovery.
The clinic staff step in only when ChairPilot identifies something that actually needs attention.
That is the workflow I wanted to rebuild for this challenge.
Try ChairPilot
Live product
https://chairpilot.lovable.app/
Try the patient booking experience
https://chairpilot.lovable.app/c/soma-dental
Explore the clinic dashboard
https://chairpilot.lovable.app/admin
On the admin page, choose “Open the read-only demo dashboard” to explore without signing up.
Built with @Lovable for the #lovablechallenge.
ChairPilot — From inquiry to booked chair, automatically.
#lovablechallenge #buildinpublic #saas #automation #productdesign #ux #booking #healthtech
Pawline: booking built around the van, for mobile pet groomers
Pawline is a booking system for a small mobile pet grooming business: one van, two groomers, three Austin zones.
Most booking tools treat a mobile groomer like a salon. The real problem is logistics: travel fees by zone, visits with several pets that take different amounts of time, and one van that can't be double-booked.
What it does:
🐾 ZIP check with instant zone travel fees
🐾 Live pricing and visit length for up to 4 pets, including add-ons and setup time
🐾 Only shows time slots the van can actually fit, and respects the owner's blocked time
🐾 Private links so customers can reschedule or cancel without an account
🐾 Owner dashboard with a daily van timeline
🐾 Public demo mode with fictional bookings and hidden customer details
Built for real use: owner-only data access, leaked-password protection, and full end-to-end testing on desktop and mobile.
Try the owner demo: Owner → "Try the demo dashboard"
Live: https://pawline-grooming-app.lovable.app
Designing around travel zones instead of a salon schedule is the right call. The demo mode is a nice touch for people testing it.