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Muddy Paws: a booking engine that turns "can I book?" into "you're booked" in 60 seconds
Business: Muddy Paws Mobile Grooming, Lisbon, Portugal as Early Stage !
One-line problem solved: A solo mobile dog groomer was losing bookings and about 1 in 5 appointments to no-shows, so I built a booking flow that confirms and protects every slot with no manual back-and-forth.
The client brief:
Inês runs a grooming van in Lisbon, alone, booking about 6 dogs a day, Tuesday to Saturday.
Requests arrive through WhatsApp and Instagram DMs and get lost.
She can't answer the phone while grooming.
About 1 in 5 customers don't show up, which costs her the slot and the fuel.
Appointment length depends on the dog's size and coat.
She drives between neighborhoods, so not every time slot works.
The goal: turn an inbound inquiry into a confirmed, paid booking with as little effort from Inês as possible.
Before and after
Before: a DM arrives, Inês replies hours later, they negotiate times, the customer forgets, the dog doesn't show, and the slot is gone.
After: the customer picks their dog and services, sees only the slots Inês can actually serve, pays a small deposit, and gets an instant confirmation. Reminders, rescheduling, and waitlist refills happen automatically.
What I built:
Fixing the front door
Dog profile and service selection, with duration and price calculated live from size and coat.
Address check against Inês's service zones.
Route-aware availability: slots respect her neighborhood-by-day schedule, service length, and travel buffer.
Deposit to secure the slot, then an instant confirmation with calendar links.
Guest checkout with no account needed.
Fixing the follow-through:
Reminders at 48 hours and 2 hours with one-tap confirm, reschedule, or cancel.
Cancelled slots reopen and go to a waitlist automatically.
A nudge for customers who start a booking and don't finish.
An owner dashboard: today's route, a "Needs attention" queue, and hours saved.
Built to work worldwide: currency, timezone, language (including Arabic right-to-left), units, and service zones are configurable, so the same engine can serve a groomer in Lisbon or a dentist in Toronto.
How it maps to the criteria:
Problem-solving impact: a complete path from inquiry to a paid, confirmed booking.
Owner-effort reduction: confirmations, reminders, rescheduling, waitlist, and lead follow-up all run without Inês.
Craft and execution: mobile-first, branded, and tested end to end with seeded demo data.
Storytelling: the demo video moves from a chaotic WhatsApp day to a calm dashboard with the hours-saved number.
Process:
I treated it like a real client brief: define the owner's quirks first, then design the booking logic around them (duration, route, deposits), then build in Lovable in layers, starting with the booking flow and then automations, dashboard, and global settings.
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→ Complete payment
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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.)
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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
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Wow.. I worked hard on my submission.. but this is amazing... Nice work. I can tell you worked super hard on this.