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I built Booked. for the solo appointment-based business owner who is great at her craft—but still has to stop what she’s doing every time someone asks, “Are you available?”
Booked. acts as an AI front desk. A customer can describe what she needs in her own words, Booked. checks real availability, protects the selected time with a temporary hold, verifies the required deposit, and confirms the appointment. Behind the scenes, it keeps the booking, payment, calendar and customer communication in sync.
But I wanted it to solve more than the first booking.
When a cancellation creates an opening, Slot Rescue can offer that time to the waitlist and turn lost availability into another confirmed appointment. Routine work is handled automatically, while decisions that genuinely require the business owner’s judgment—like whether to refund a deposit—stay with the human.
The result is a booking experience designed around a simple idea:
Automate the interruption, not the relationship.
From “Are you available?” to “You’re booked.”
Booked.
#lovablechallenge
One more look behind Booked.
The booking is only the beginning.
After the appointment is made, Booked. keeps working—confirming the appointment, handling cancellations, notifying the customer, and using Slot Rescue to offer newly available time to the waitlist.
The goal: automate...
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SoHo — from first inquiry to confirmed session
SoHo is a boutique photography studio in New York, offering private portraits, editorial shoots, and handcrafted photo albums. Its small team has to manage booking requests, session details, discounts, and customer photos while preparing for shoots.
I built SoHo in Lovable to bring that work into one connected experience.
Clients can choose a session, request a date and time, and track their booking status from their account. The studio can review requests, set approval rules, and see AI-assisted equipment suggestions for each shoot. Discounts become available at the right stage of the booking journey.
For custom albums, clients select a cover and place their photos into a digital version of the physical album box. The studio can manage the order and download all submitted photos as one ZIP file.
The goal was simple: help a small studio spend less time coordinating messages and files, and more time making the work its clients came for.
Live Lovable project: https://sohonewyork.lovable.app
The attached video walks through the finished experience.
Great job, Abdullah! The design looks neat and interesting - really good work! Keep it up! 🚀
A self-initiated product: a booking and ordering system for a billiard club in Tbilisi. I designed it in Figma from scratch and built all of it, from the interface to the database.
Guests call the club and nobody answers. They arrive and every table is taken. They want food and wait at the bar. Side Pocket moves all of that to the website.
Key decisions
No guest accounts. A booking needs a name and a phone number. The guest gets a private link to move, extend or cancel. The link is the account.
A 15-minute hold. Guests check in with "I'm at the table." A table nobody claims goes to the waitlist, and the next person gets the same 15 minutes.
Ordering tied to the table. Guests order from their phone during the game, add time themselves and see the bill as it grows.
One screen for staff. Every table's state for the night, late arrivals and orders to serve pinned to the top, bookings and orders boards, alerts in Telegram.
A Telegram bot. It understands "table for 4 tonight at 8" in English or Russian and finishes the booking with buttons.
Scope
Guest site with live availability, single and group booking, waitlist, private booking page, table page with menu, cart and bill, email confirmations and reminders, staff dashboard, Telegram bot.
Stack
React 19, TanStack Start, TanStack Router and Query, Tailwind 4, Radix UI, Supabase Postgres with row-level security, pg_cron, Brevo and Resend, Telegram Bot API, Vitest.
Business rules sit in plain functions, separate from the UI and the database, with 73 tests. Only server functions touch the database.
My role
Product design, UI design, front-end, back-end, database, integrations.
Live demo: side-pocket.lovable.app
Built for the #LovableChallenge by @Contra and @Lovable. #BuiltWithLovable😊
nicety accomplished.. great work
I built Aurora, a booking experience for Studio Aurora Beauty, a fictional solo beauty studio in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
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.
Aurora turns that manual back-and-forth into a seamless booking flow.
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.
The goal was not to build another calendar. It was to reduce the manual work around booking.
From “Can I book with you?” to “You’re booked.”
