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For the @Lovable challenge, I chose one of the most vulnerable booking experiences I’ve encountered through my work with therapists: reaching out for a first consultation.
By the time someone clicks “book,” they may have spent weeks finding the words.
They send an inquiry, share something personal, and wait. Sometimes, only after hearing back do they discover that the therapist isn’t accepting clients, can’t meet in person, or doesn’t have hours that work for them.
Now they have to start again.
I wanted to make that first step gentler and reduce the coordination falling on a therapist who’s already spending her day with clients.
🍃 Meet Alder Therapy, a fictional solo practice in Portland, Oregon, run by Maya.
The problem I rebuilt: turning “Can I book a consultation?” into a confirmed appointment without repeated emails about practical details, while keeping Maya involved when someone needs a personal response.
Alder brings location, fees, insurance expectations, and ongoing availability into the conversation early. Sharing personal concerns is optional. Someone can understand the arrangements before deciding how much of their story to tell.
📝 As they answer, a short note to Maya takes shape. They can read it, edit it, and see what happens next before sending.
When the practical arrangements line up, they can choose a consultation time directly. When a question needs Maya, their inquiry is saved with a welcoming handoff and its context intact.
That distinction matters to me. Through working with therapists, I’ve seen that reducing admin doesn’t mean they want to hand every decision to a system.
Maya can see everyone who has reached out, what’s already been handled, and who needs her attention. She sets the rules, pauses new-client bookings when needed, and can invite someone to book after reviewing their question.
For the challenge, my goal was to remove the repeated coordination around that first appointment while preserving the care that belongs in it.
💚 Less uncertainty for someone taking a difficult first step. More time and context for the person they’re hoping to speak with.
Watch the walkthrough or try both perspectives:
https://alder-therapy-connect.lovable.app
Alder is an interactive demo of a fictional practice. Records stay in your browser, and no login is required.
Love this! 💚 We both built for therapy practices, but from such complementary angles, and I really appreciate the sensitivity you brought to the first consultation. "By the time someone clicks 'book,' they may have spent weeks finding the words" is so true. Letting people...
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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
thank you
Wow.. I worked hard on my submission.. but this is amazing... Nice work. I can tell you worked super hard on this.
I built MobiFix Nairobi : A Mobile auto care company.
I rebuilt the moment an inbound “Can I book with you?” becomes “You’re booked.”
MobiFix Nairobi is a fictional mobile automotive service business built around one simple problem: booking vehicle services often means back-and-forth messages, checking availability, coordinating technicians, confirming locations, and handling payments manually.
I designed the experience so the customer can:
→ Choose a service
→ Select their vehicle
→ Enter their location
→ Pick an available date and time
→ Add their details
→ Review the booking
→ Complete payment
→ Receive a booking confirmation and code
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...
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