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I put together a full travel management project covering flight and hotel research, itinerary planning, visa requirement checks, and budget comparisons — the same process I used when I helped someone personally research and plan trips across countries like Dubai, Thailand, Morocco, Singapore, Canada, Australia, and Germany, looking into visa requirements, travel options, and the best routes for each destination.
I enjoy this kind of work because it's detail-heavy but rewarding — turning a big, overwhelming trip into a clear, organized plan someone can actually follow.
A couple of notes:
This blends your real personal-assistant experience (the multi-country research) with your portfolio project, without claiming either was paid client work — which keeps it honest but still strong
If Contra asks for "role" or "type," label it as Personal Project / Practical Experience rather than "Client Project"
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Here's my submission for the Contra x Lovable challenge. It's more of a story than a design showcase.
I'd never used Lovable before this. I spent 3 days inside it, and it was an amazing first experience.
How I built it:
I planned everything with Claude, created the images with GPT, and then built and structured the whole app in Lovable.
The problem:
In Bangladesh, India, and across South Asia, brides book a mehedi artist to come home and apply henna before the wedding. I created an imaginary artist, Tisha. While she works, her hands are covered in mehedi for hours. She can't pick up a call or reply to a text, so she badly needs a booking system that works without her.
See it in action: https://mehedibytisha.lovable.app/
What it does:
Customers pick their service, number of guests, and design style from multiple options, then choose an open time.
Customers get a booking confirmation by email, and Tisha gets an email for every new booking.
A backend keeps every customer and every booking in one place.
Tisha sets her schedule once, and customers can book her any time based on it.
Thank you, Lovable and Contra, for organizing this.
Nice work
Just finished building a Salon Booking Management System!
The goal was simple: make appointment management easier for salon owners and reduce the manual work involved in handling bookings and reminders.
The system connects the complete workflow in one place:
1 Customer makes a booking
2 Booking gets confirmed
3 Owner sees it on the dashboard
4 Upcoming appointments are organized clearly
5 Reminders help the owner stay on top of appointments
One of the key things I focused on was making the experience simple, clean, and easy to understand, while keeping the workflow practical for a real business.
This project helped me think beyond just building screens — and focus more on the actual business problem, user flow, and overall product experience.
Excited to keep improving it and turn it into an even more polished product.
#BuildInPublic #SaaS #WebApp #BookingSystem #SalonManagement #ProductDesign #MVP #NoCode #Entrepreneurship
Good work
I used @Lovable to build a working booking app for my business—and the most useful part happens after someone clicks “Book.”
The goal: easier booking for clients, less scheduling work for me.
The app creates their Zoom meeting, sends their confirmation, schedules reminders, and lets them reschedule or cancel.
The client’s part? Pick a time. Enter a name and email. Done.
I built this for Mathias Media, my website and app studio in Minneapolis, as part of @Contra’s #lovablechallenge.
With Lovable, I built around how I actually work: consultations Tuesday through Thursday, a maximum of three calls a day, and buffers between appointments. The app handles those rules while keeping booking simple.
That’s what makes this Contra challenge worthwhile: a reason to turn a real business need into something useful with Lovable.
Try it: https://book.mathiasmedia.com/
Walkthrough and build-process recording attached.
Have a business process you wish worked better? Give Lovable a try.
Baking the Tuesday to Thursday, three calls max rule right into the app is the smartest part of this imo. Most booking tools make you bend around them. Have clients noticed the limits or does it just quietly feel like you're in demand?