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Mesa Llena — Websites and WhatsApp Automation for Restaurants
Mesa Llena is a productized service that builds conversion-focused websites and automated WhatsApp systems for restaurants across Argentina. It helps restaurant owners get more reservations and orders 24/7, even when the staff is offline.
I designed and developed the full solution: the website, the reservation flow, and the WhatsApp automation that sends menus, answers common questions, and handles bookings automatically.
The goal is to turn WhatsApp from a manual chat into a scalable reservations engine, so restaurants can grow without hiring extra front-desk staff.
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A premium booking experience for a custom fashion studio in Lagos.
I wanted to solve a simple problem: when someone asks, “Can I book with you?”, the designer shouldn't have to spend the next hour going back and forth about availability, measurements, event dates, and scheduling.
Threadline Atelier turns that into one smooth flow:
Inquiry → Design Brief → Availability → Booking → Deposit → Confirmation
Customers can choose what they're making, share their occasion and event date, upload inspiration, select a real available consultation time, pay the consultation deposit, and get booked.
For the designer, it reduces manual coordination, follow-ups, and scheduling headaches.
Visually, I wanted it to feel like a luxury fashion house with a digital experience editorial typography, contemporary African fashion, cinematic motion, and subtle thread-inspired interactions.
The signature moment:
“YOU'RE BOOKED.”
This is a well structured website but the booking experience is what I looks good.
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One-line problem: Mariela grooms one dog at a time in Surco, Lima, and loses about 2 hours a day on WhatsApp while 1 in 5 clients never show up.
THE BUSINESS
Patitas & Tijeras is a one-woman grooming studio in Santiago de Surco, Lima. Its quirks shape the whole product:
One dog at a time, never in a cage, so the calendar can never double-book
Slot length depends on the dog: a chihuahua takes 45 min, a matted golden takes 3 h
15 protected minutes between dogs to clean the table
Saturdays fill first; weekdays have room
Clients pay a deposit by Yape (Peru's most used payment app) to hold a slot The business is fictional. The problem is real for thousands of small shops in Lima.
FOR CLIENTS
Book in about a minute: breed, size and coat set the exact slot length, so only times that really fit are shown
A Yape deposit holds the slot. A booking can't be confirmed until the deposit arrives
Every booking gets its own page with a QR code and clear next steps
Waitlist and reminders; returning clients are recognized by phone number
Spanish and English, detected automatically
FOR MARIELA
Inquiry inbox: "got a slot Saturday?" gets real times back in one tap
QR check-in on arrival, with clear warnings for codes from another day, cancelled or already used
Regulars with no no-shows in the last 90 days can rebook without a deposit
A dashboard with revenue, occupancy, no-shows and hours saved
In the demo data, no-shows drop from 21% to 4%
HOW IT'S BUILT
Built entirely in Lovable on Lovable Cloud (Postgres, auth, storage): 21 versions in about 18 hours. Overlapping bookings are blocked by the database itself, not just the interface. Most fixes came from testing it on my phone as a real client would.
TRY IT
Live app: https://patitas-y-tijeras.lovable.app
Owner view: "Studio login" → "Enter the demo as Mariela" (demo data resets every night)
Lovable project: https://lovable.dev/projects/2549d272-0442-42a4-b7b3-52122c971817
Process video: https://x.com/Sebas_TZ_/status/2104022416062312659
Social post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DdxTkJYmmTa/?img_index=1
Built with @Lovable #lovablechallenge
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The problem was simple: the owner was spending too much time answering availability questions, confirming appointments, sending reminders and handling rescheduling through WhatsApp and Instagram.
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Customers can choose a service, check real-time availability, book an appointment, receive instant confirmation, and reschedule or cancel without contacting the owner.
On the business side, the owner gets a dashboard with upcoming appointments, booking statuses, pending confirmations and automated reminders.
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