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Mia runs Little Wild by herself.
Most enquiries arrive after 7 pm, when parents finally have time to think about birthday parties after their children are in bed.
Saturday is her biggest earning day, but it’s also the hardest day to organise.
She’s constantly holding dates for people who disappear, replying to Instagram DMs at 11:14 pm, chasing balances, checking who is available, and trying to remember which equipment is where.
And a “free” time in her calendar doesn’t necessarily mean she can take the booking.
Every party depends on the package, equipment, team availability, van capacity, travel time, setup, collection, turnaround, and what else is already happening that day.
One bad decision can make two perfectly good bookings physically impossible to deliver.
That was the problem I wanted to solve.
I didn’t want to build Mia another booking website. I wanted to build a system that could think through the predictable parts of running Little Wild before they became Mia’s problem.
So Little Wild checks whether a party can genuinely happen before offering the slot. If the requested time won’t work, it finds alternatives that will.
Facebook and Instagram enquiries are integrated with her website and automated so booking inquiries can flow into the same system.
Customers can book, pay, receive confirmations, manage small changes themselves and join the waitlist when their preferred time isn’t available.
Behind the scenes, Little Wild keeps track of the people, vehicle, equipment, payments, reminders, and logistics needed to make each party happen.
Mia doesn’t need another dashboard telling her everything that happened.
She needs to be interrupted only when something actually needs her.
That became the principle behind the whole build:
Automate the predictable, surface the exceptional, and give Mia her time back.
Less admin. More magic.
I rebuilt Little Wild’s booking journey so Mia can turn enquiries into confirmed, operationally feasible parties without spending her evenings checking DMs, calendars, equipment, staff, travel, and chasing payments.
You can find more about the story and how the website gave Mia her time back here: https://littlewildjersey.lovable.app/story
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I built GlowHaus Concierge for a fictional solo beauty studio in Lekki, Lagos.
The problem: a simple “Can I book with you?” can turn into 10+ messages, checking availability, collecting details, chasing deposits, confirming appointments, and handling reschedules.
So I built a system that turns:
“Can I book with you?” - “You’re booked.”
Customers can:
Choose a service
Pick an available time
Enter their details
Pay a deposit
Get confirmed
Reschedule themselves
And the owner gets a dashboard for bookings, deposits, follow-ups, and automations.
Built with @Lovable for the #lovablechallenge.
how long did the deposit flow take to get right?
I already submitted my Lovable challenge but I decided to update the landing page and make it look a little bit better by introducing more images to make the page a little bit more interactive especially on the services section, which one do you like: the old one or the new one?
You can test it here: https://carmobifix.lovable.app/
submitted project: https://contra.com/community/KUoCqygQ-i-built-mobi-fix-nairobi-a
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you had credit left ? mine finished...like 4, 5 credits left..😂
Day 3 of working on my project for the Lovable Challenge.
And somehow, almost one full day of those three went into the intro you see when the page first opens.
Not because it was necessary — mostly because I’ve wanted to try something like this for a long time.
Web design and development are far from my main field, so I kept putting this idea off. This challenge finally gave me a reason to test it properly — and seeing it actually work is ridiculously satisfying.
The video was converted into an image sequence and tied directly to scrolling on desktop and swiping on mobile, so the animation is controlled by the user as they move through the page.
Right now the project is already at Build 4.2.3.
The backend is working properly, the main mechanics are in place, but visually… there’s still a lot to redo. The current plan is to rebuild almost the entire visual layer before the final version.
I also found out today that Lovable reduced the number of prize spots quite significantly — apparently, there will only be 3 finalists.
That definitely makes the odds a little more painful 😅
But either way, I’m already getting a new portfolio case out of this project, and I’m finally experimenting with things I’ve wanted to build for a long time.
How’s everyone else doing?
Still working on your project, or have you already submitted it?
Or did you decide not to participate at all? If so, I’m curious — what made you skip it?
