Bilingual Mobile Dog Grooming Booking and Waitlist AutomationBilingual Mobile Dog Grooming Booking and Waitlist Automation
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Jakob Hedrich
• 14h
Lupe's Mobile Grooming (Cicero, IL, fictional): turning "can I book with you?" into "you're booked" for a one-van, one-groomer dog groomer who can't answer the phone with wet hands.
The problem: the van works one area a day, a visit takes 1 or 2 hours depending on the dog, 1 in 8 visits fails at a locked gate, and the waitlist lives on paper.
What it does (Spanish and English):
- Front door: the dog's size and coat set the visit length; the ZIP code only offers days when the van is in that area; gate code and parking are collected before arrival; instant confirmation with a calendar file and a private link to confirm, reschedule or cancel.
- Follow-through: at 6 pm every customer for the next working day gets a check ("someone home? can Lupe get in?"). At 7 pm unconfirmed visits are released, and each freed slot goes to the longest-waiting person in that area whose dog fits. Cancellations refill the same way. The owner does nothing; the demo clock on /owner lets you run her evening yourself.
How it was built: one Lovable prompt made the first version. The scheduling rules were then written in code with an AI coding assistant through Lovable's GitHub sync (23 tests). Lovable's security scan flagged open database tables, so every read and write now goes through validated server functions, and the public key is denied.
Fictional business, simulated messages; the booking flow is real.
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Hazem Al Khodary
• 12h
When a visit is released at 7 pm, does the longest-waiting customer in that area get it booked outright, or an offer they have to accept before the van leaves in the morning?
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Jakob Hedrich
• 8h
It's an offer. At 7 pm the freed slot is held for the longest-waiting customer in that area whose dog fits, and they get a text with a link to confirm it (they also add their address, since the waitlist only has a ZIP code).
Your question found a gap: that hold had no deadline,...
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