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ON IT — You do the work. We’re on it.
Client: Van Rooij Dakwerken, a fictional roofing business in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.
Problem: Turn incomplete roofing inquiries into suitable inspection appointments while the owner stays on the job.
A roofer’s customer rarely starts with a neatly defined service. They start with a problem:
“Water has been coming through near our dormer since last night. Can someone come and look?”
Before an appointment can be arranged, someone has to ask what is happening, collect photos, check the address, assess which type of visit is appropriate and find a suitable time. For a small roofing business, that work repeatedly interrupts the person doing the roofing.
I built ON IT in Lovable to handle that front-desk workflow.
The working demo follows a dormer leak inquiry. ON IT identifies information already provided, asks focused follow-up questions about visible damage and the amount of water, collects a photo and customer details, checks the service area and presents inspection slots. The customer selects a time and receives a confirmed appointment.
On the owner’s side, the same inquiry appears with its photo, assessment, assigned roofer and a timeline of the steps handled. In this demonstrated booking, no owner action is required.
The business also has a Playbook: services, team skills, service area and automation permissions. AUTO, ASK ME and OFF make the intended level of delegation explicit. The exception view shows cases such as possible structural damage, with the collected information and the reason the owner’s judgment is needed.
The design focuses on reducing effort on both sides. Customers describe their problem in ordinary language and answer targeted questions. The owner receives an organized inquiry rather than another conversation to reconstruct. An embeddable script brings the intake into an existing website.
The before-and-after is practical: fewer interruptions, less information chasing and a clearer next step for the customer.
Automation by default. Human by exception.
Nice how the flow moves a half finished request straight into a calendar slot without pulling the owner away from the site
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Here's my submission for the Contra x Lovable challenge. It's more of a story than a design showcase.
I'd never used Lovable before this. I spent 3 days inside it, and it was an amazing first experience.
How I built it:
I planned everything with Claude, created the images with GPT, and then built and structured the whole app in Lovable.
The problem:
In Bangladesh, India, and across South Asia, brides book a mehedi artist to come home and apply henna before the wedding. I created an imaginary artist, Tisha. While she works, her hands are covered in mehedi for hours. She can't pick up a call or reply to a text, so she badly needs a booking system that works without her.
See it in action: https://mehedibytisha.lovable.app/
What it does:
Customers pick their service, number of guests, and design style from multiple options, then choose an open time.
Customers get a booking confirmation by email, and Tisha gets an email for every new booking.
A backend keeps every customer and every booking in one place.
Tisha sets her schedule once, and customers can book her any time based on it.
Thank you, Lovable and Contra, for organizing this.
Nice work
🎮 Retro Repair Café — bringing old consoles back to life, without the admin chaos.
For the Lovable × Contra challenge, I built a concept website and working booking system for an independent retro console repair café.
Customers can book a console assessment, describe the fault, arrange collection and delivery, and track their repair. If they’re staying, they can reserve a seat and pre-order food or a milkshake. Community gaming nights and a retro marketplace give people a reason to return after the repair.
Behind the counter, a database-backed workshop dashboard brings together repair jobs, quotes, appointments, collections and food orders. I populated it with eight fictional repair jobs so you can explore how it works.
Why I built it
When you run a small repair business, you’re the technician, receptionist and organiser. Every phone call asking for an update interrupts a repair. Paper notes and scattered bookings make it harder to keep customers informed.
I wanted to give that owner more time to fix consoles, while making the customer experience as enjoyable as rediscovering a favourite childhood game.
The café adds something personal: a broken console becomes a reason to meet people, play games and support a local business.
Built with Lovable, with custom visuals and an AI-assisted promo video showing the idea in action.
👉 Explore the project: https://retro-repair-cafe.lovable.app
Which console would you bring in? 🎮
#LovableChallenge #Lovable #Contra 🚀
love this demo!
𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: 𝗜𝗿𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗹𝗮𝗱 𝗣𝗶𝗽𝗲 & 𝗗𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺: Solo trade professionals face a constant trade-off: focus on hands-on field work or answer incoming booking calls. Missing a call almost always means losing a high-value emergency job.
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: A two-sided digital dispatch product:
𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗹: Quick visual intake (photo/video upload), dynamic cost estimation, route-optimized time slot selection, and deposit checkout.
𝗢𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗰𝗸 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲: A mobile-optimized dashboard for solo technicians to manage daily routes, review issue photos before arrival, send automated status SMS to clients, and track live earnings.
𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁:
- Visual intake lightbox preview
- Dynamic ZIP-based route matching
- Deposit-backed booking engine
- Live status sync and notification logs
𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼: https://lovable.dev/projects/0d5aaac4-dbe8-4fd8-9e10-f28214b40172?magic_link=mc_0b2a39eb-5ac8-4999-bb11-7b126597747d
𝗧𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴:Built entirely on Lovable
Check on LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/p/dNzBP-Xd
Great work, Ahtisham! You handled this really well, especially the availability model. We’ve been looking into this exact problem and haven’t found a solid workaround, so your approach is incredibly helpful. Thanks for sharing it.