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What I Built & Why
What I Built
I built Verve & Obsidian, a dual-engine booking and studio management system tailored specifically for high-ticket commercial and editorial photographers. The application seamlessly connects two distinct user experiences:
Engine A: The Client Front Door (4-Step Luxury Intake Flow)
Seamless Booking: A 4-step intake form with real-time calendar availability hold.
Immediate Lock-In: Requires a 30% non-refundable retainer and accepted terms before securing a date.
Lead Recovery: Early email capture at Step 1 to automatically re-engage abandoned inquiries after 2 hours.
Engine B: Soren’s Studio Hub (Automated Operations Dashboard)
Zero-Touch Client Management: Automated 48-hour and 2-hour shoot reminders.
Self-Service Portal: A client self-rescheduling feature that updates availability live without DM back-and-forth.
Post-Shoot Automation: Automatic post-shoot gallery delivery notifications and review requests.
Why I Built It
Solo creative entrepreneurs like Soren Kael spend the day shooting and editing, leaving customer inquiries sitting unanswered until late at night. This operational delay causes warm leads to go cold. Furthermore, coordinating session lengths (ranging from 90-minute portraits to 4-hour campaigns) via social media DMs leads to double-bookings, scheduling chaos, and uncollected retainer fees.
Verve & Obsidian resolves this administrative friction by turning passive inquiries into paid, confirmed sessions within minutes. It elevates the client onboarding experience to match the studio's luxury aesthetic while completely automating the back-office workflow—allowing the photographer to focus on creative execution.
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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?
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?