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One note used to turn into four little chores.
Add it to Notion. Set a Todoist reminder. Block time in Google Calendar. Then message the person waiting on me in Slack.
I built Notely to make that follow-through easier. I can ask: “Find what’s still open on this and get it ready.”
Notely checks my notes, tasks, and connected apps, then lays out the steps and proposed changes. I can approve, skip, or reject them before anything runs.
It connects with Gmail, Slack, Notion, Todoist, Jira, Asana, ClickUp, and Google Calendar.
Notely is free, with no trial or credit card required. Bring your own AI API key.
What’s one follow-up you’d want your notes app to handle for you?
I built the site and booking system for Copperline Handyman Co. in Asheville:
1. My homepage and booking flow: Customers describe what's broken, upload photos, see an honest price range, pick a real slot on my schedule, and place a $40 deposit that comes off their bill.
2. My interactive 3D wrench: A scroll-driven tool on desktop that reinforces the old hardware-store look.
3. My owner board (/owner): My private dispatch center to review photos, check drive times within my 25-minute radius, send quotes, and let simulated reminders run on their own.
Why I built it: I work alone with one truck. I built this to stop dropping my tools to answer calls, weed out tire-kickers with upfront pricing, protect my drive time, and give Asheville neighbors a slot that actually sticks without phone tag.
We're Advancing Data Solutions, a small AI, data and web engineering consultancy working with clients worldwide. Our booking page was a plain calendar link. It got a call on the calendar and that was about it. Everything else was still manual: emailing back and forth about scope and budget, sending NDAs, replying to LinkedIn messages one by one, and hoping people actually showed up.
So we rebuilt it in Lovable as a proper booking portal.
For clients:
They describe their project once, and bigger projects automatically get a 60-minute call instead of 30
They only see times that are actually free on our Google Calendar, shown in their own time zone
They verify their email with a code, get a Google Meet link, and sign our NDA before the call
They can reschedule or cancel from their own link, and saying "Yes" in Google Calendar confirms attendance
For us:
A dashboard showing every booking with its brief, verification, NDA and attendance status
A mini CRM for leads: every inquiry is tracked from first message to booked, with automatic follow-ups for people who didn't finish booking
An Inquiry assistant: we paste a LinkedIn or email message, it pulls out the details, saves the lead and drafts a reply with a booking link that's already filled in
Reminders go out on their own, and if someone hasn't confirmed by the day before, we get an alert so we can follow up personally
An Outbox that logs every email sent
Settings where we control our working hours, time zone, calls per day, the gap between calls, minimum notice and blocked email domains, without touching any code
It's not a demo. The portal runs on our own custom domain, connected to the Book button on our real website. It uses our real Google Calendar, sends every email from our own domain, and blocks fake bookings with email verification. We built it before our first clients arrive, so the process is right from day one.
Live portal: https://book.advancingdatasolutions.com
Our website: https://advancingdatasolutions.com
Built in Lovable: https://advancingdatasolutions.lovable.app
The first video is the demo. The second shows how we built it.