🎮 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? 🎮

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