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Public link: https://ironwooddesignbuild.lovable.app/
Overview:
For Ironwood Design & Build, I automated appointment text reminders and quote follow-ups to reduce sales-process stress, saving a busy solo contractor hours of manual admin work each week.
Business and Build Details:
Ironwood Design & Build
Marcus Vance is a solo deck and hardscape contractor who runs his entire business from his phone in his truck. He has no office and no assistant.
The quirks:
- He drives 45 minutes across Austin for afternoon estimates, only to find the homeowner forgot.
- He writes $15,000 quotes, then gets back on a job site and never follows up.
- New inquiries wait a day or more for a reply, and some book a faster competitor.
The problem solved: The mobile app took the stress out of the sales process by automating appointment text reminders and quote follow-ups, saving a busy solo contractor 14+ hours a week of manual admin work.
What Ironwood Command does:
Home: A calm, mobile-first command center showing hours reclaimed, protected revenue, and a live log of what the app handled automatically.
Day: Every booked visit gets a reminder with one tap to confirm or reschedule. Silent clients get escalated before Marcus leaves, so he never drives to an empty house.
Quotes: Each sent quote runs on an autopilot follow-up sequence of check-ins and nearby project photos, and Marcus can override any step.
Before: About 14.5 hours a week spent replying to inquiries, texting confirmations, driving to no-shows, and chasing quotes.
After: New inquiries become confirmed visits, quotes get followed up automatically, and Marcus only steps in for exceptions.
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I designed the experience so the customer can:
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Behind the scenes, the business gets a real dashboard with bookings, calendar, customers, services, technicians, availability, analytics, and website management — all backed by real data.
The goal was to make the entire journey feel less like “requesting an appointment” and more like simply getting booked.
Built with Lovable and Lovable Cloud.
MobiFix: https://carmobifix.lovable.app
(I haven't submitted the actual project link because of the environment variables, I'm using Lovable Cloud.)
Looking great...
For the #lovablechallenge
Introducing EVERMORE a bridal boutique on King Street, Charleston 💍
A little bit backstory
I don't normally do this and if this challenge I hadn't seen yesterday, I don't think I would never have tried the new #Lovable to be honest. I normally use other cli tools in my day to day work, but this is the first time I was having this much fun while building a project.
What you're looking at is everything I managed to do in one night before the tokens ran out ( got down to ~5 credits from 200 something).
Let's come down to point. The submission is based on an actual client .(The name and location etc is fictional , but her problems are not )
So Juliette runs EVERMORE, with Tess styling on weekends only.
Two fitting rooms: the Grand Salon (bride + 5) and the Boudoir (bride + 2). Visits are 45, 60 or 90 minutes, and every room needs a 15-minute reset.
Saturdays fill first. She's with a bride all day, so every "Can I book?" DM waited until 11pm.
With our help , what is happening now is
- Brides are booking based on the availability themselves , without waiting for reply in dm.
- Getting Instant confirmation with a private link to confirm. They have the options for later cancel their appointment as well if they change their mind or due to any emergency. No questions asked and without disturbing any one else as well.
- To remember they can put it in calendar as well
- While booking their preference like how they want to look, styles, budget, comfort notes etc, also can be added directly so that boutique owner can prepare for her visit and make everything in her capacity to make the bride to be comfortable
- Based on the preferences of bride , A Salon Screen was ready for her and her only to showcase the type of dress she want in detail and talk about it in person while trying them out, the screen can be managed by the studio owner and could be put on any display like tv or laptop or monitor .
- It first greets the bride with personal message and also let her capture the screen and share it in here social, giving a viral factor in social media with tags
- The same screen also lets studio owner to note down the preference of the bride more clearly after having met in person
→ Once the meeting is done, both the client and studio owner will have different place to go back and do things like note down the next steps, result of the meeting , the feedback from the client , basically the whole formality whatever happens
Juliette's new evening plan, literally anything except answering DMs.
Live site: https://evermore-bridal-dreams.lovable.app
To try and book as a bride to be , no need of any auth.
but to be signed in as studio owner or stylist,
you can use the below credential
email (owner)- juliette.owner@evermore-test.invalid
password - JKK9CpXh5GkpVLPU6HFABVzW!a041824d
email(staff)- tess.staff@evermore-test.invalid
pasword- YlwjCUq3CegCQV5wxhoec8uJ!c355d56d
thank you
Wow.. I worked hard on my submission.. but this is amazing... Nice work. I can tell you worked super hard on this.
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?
