Patitas & Tijeras: from "can

Patitas & Tijeras: from "can I book?" to "you're booked" for a solo dog groomer in Lima One-line problem: Mariela grooms one dog at a time in Surco, Lima, and loses about 2 hours a day on WhatsApp while 1 in 5 clients never show up.

THE BUSINESS Patitas & Tijeras is a one-woman grooming studio in Santiago de Surco, Lima. Its quirks shape the whole product:

One dog at a time, never in a cage, so the calendar can never double-book

Slot length depends on the dog: a chihuahua takes 45 min, a matted golden takes 3 h

15 protected minutes between dogs to clean the table

Saturdays fill first; weekdays have room

Clients pay a deposit by Yape (Peru's most used payment app) to hold a slot The business is fictional. The problem is real for thousands of small shops in Lima.

FOR CLIENTS

Book in about a minute: breed, size and coat set the exact slot length, so only times that really fit are shown

A Yape deposit holds the slot. A booking can't be confirmed until the deposit arrives

Every booking gets its own page with a QR code and clear next steps

Waitlist and reminders; returning clients are recognized by phone number

Spanish and English, detected automatically

FOR MARIELA

Inquiry inbox: "got a slot Saturday?" gets real times back in one tap

QR check-in on arrival, with clear warnings for codes from another day, cancelled or already used

Regulars with no no-shows in the last 90 days can rebook without a deposit

A dashboard with revenue, occupancy, no-shows and hours saved

In the demo data, no-shows drop from 21% to 4%

HOW IT'S BUILT Built entirely in Lovable on Lovable Cloud (Postgres, auth, storage): 21 versions in about 18 hours. Overlapping bookings are blocked by the database itself, not just the interface. Most fixes came from testing it on my phone as a real client would.

TRY IT Live app: https://patitas-y-tijeras.lovable.app Owner view: "Studio login" → "Enter the demo as Mariela" (demo data resets every night) Lovable project: https://lovable.dev/projects/2549d272-0442-42a4-b7b3-52122c971817 Process video: https://x.com/Sebas_TZ_/status/2104022416062312659 Social post: https://www.instagram.com/p/DdxTkJYmmTa/?img_index=1

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