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Verified against Lovable · 2026-07-27

Build a booking app with real availability rules and no double-bookings

A Lovable brief for a booking app that stores every timestamp in UTC and enforces no-overlap and buffer rules with a real database constraint, not a client-side calendar check that a race condition can slip past.

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Build Northline Tutoring, a booking app for one-on-one SAT tutoring sessions where a client can only ever book a real, open slot — no double-bookings, no bookings inside a provider's buffer time, and no timezone confusion between the provider and the client.

PRODUCT
Clients pick a provider and a time slot from real availability and book a 50-minute session. Providers set their own weekly availability and can block off specific dates.

DATA MODEL
- Provider: id, user_id, name, timezone (IANA string, e.g. America/Chicago), bio.
- AvailabilityRule: id, provider_id (references Provider), day_of_week (0-6), start_time, end_time — recurring weekly windows in the provider's own timezone.
- BlockedDate: id, provider_id (references Provider), date, reason — one-off exceptions like a holiday or vacation day.
- Booking: id, provider_id (references Provider), client_id, starts_at (stored as a UTC timestamp, never a naive local time), ends_at, status (confirmed, canceled, or completed), created_at.

AVAILABILITY AND CONFLICT RULES
Store every Booking's starts_at and ends_at in UTC, and convert to and from the provider's or client's local timezone only at the point of display — never store a local time string and hope the offset stays correct. A slot is only bookable if it falls entirely inside an AvailabilityRule window for that day of week, is not covered by a BlockedDate, and does not overlap any existing confirmed Booking for that provider, including a 10-minute buffer before and after every existing booking. Enforce the no-overlap rule with a database constraint or a single atomic check-and-insert transaction, not a client-side calendar check followed by a separate insert — two clients hitting "book" within the same second on the same slot must not both succeed; the second one must see a clear "this slot was just taken" message instead of a silently double-booked provider.

CANCELLATION AND CHANGES
A client can cancel their own booking up until 24 hours before starts_at; after that window, canceling requires the provider's own action, not the client's self-serve button. Canceling a Booking must immediately free that slot for someone else to book — it is not enough to just mark status canceled if the availability query doesn't also check status when computing open slots.

SCREENS
1. Public booking page: provider picks a date, sees only genuinely open slots (already filtered by all the rules above) rendered in the client's own browser timezone, picks one, confirms.
2. Booking confirmation screen and email showing the time in the client's timezone explicitly labeled with the timezone name, not just a bare time, plus a scannable QR code the client can show at check-in that the provider scans to mark the booking completed instantly.
3. Provider dashboard: weekly availability editor, blocked-date picker, and an upcoming-bookings list.
4. Cancel/reschedule flow respecting the cancellation window above.

CONSTRAINTS
Use Lovable's Supabase integration for auth and the database; enforce the no-overlap rule with a real database-level constraint or transaction, not JavaScript that runs after the fact. Most tutors are in US Central time but clients book from anywhere, so the timezone label on every confirmation is not optional.

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Why this works

Storing every timestamp in UTC and converting only at display time targets the single most common bug class in AI-generated scheduling apps. A generated app that stores "3:00 PM" as a plain string with no explicit UTC instruction will silently misbehave the moment a provider and client are in different zones, or even within the same zone across a daylight-saving transition — a failure that looks correct in same-timezone manual testing and breaks for the first client anywhere else, which is exactly the testing pattern a one-shot builder tends to run against itself. Naming the storage format explicitly, rather than leaving it implicit in "handle timezones correctly," is what actually gets the UTC-plus-conversion pattern instead of the naive one. The atomic check-and-insert requirement closes a genuine concurrency race that a naive implementation misses by construction: querying for conflicts, seeing none, then inserting is two separate calls with a window between them where a concurrent booking for the identical slot can slip through undetected by either request. Specifying a single atomic transaction or a database exclusion constraint on the time range is what actually closes that window — and it's exactly the kind of concurrency detail a fast, one-shot generation pass skips unless it's named as a hard requirement rather than an implementation nicety left to the model's judgment. Folding buffer time into the same overlap check, rather than treating it as a separate step, prevents it from becoming an inconsistently enforced afterthought. If buffer isn't part of the single conflict query, a generated app frequently implements it as a second check applied only on the client-facing booking form — and forgotten on the path where a provider manually adds a booking from their own dashboard, where the same underlying conflict rule should still apply but often silently doesn't, because it was written as a second, separate piece of logic instead of one shared rule both paths call.

What you get back

Two browser tabs both clicking "confirm" on the identical 2:00 PM slot within the same second — one succeeds with a confirmed booking, the other immediately sees "this slot was just taken" and is shown the next genuinely open slot, with the provider's calendar never showing two overlapping bookings.

Verified against

Lovable Lovable web app (Supabase-integrated chat builder) · 2026-07-27

Changelog

  • 2026-07-27 Initial publish, verified against Lovable with UTC-only timestamp storage and a database-level no-overlap constraint.
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