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Ask HN: What do you think about this startup idea I'm working on?
Introducing Repairer - An on demand repair service.
Website: https://hammadn.wixsite.com/repairer
We take your damaged products from you and get it repaired as fast and as cheap as possible and deliver it back once it is repaired!
We'd be taking watches, clocks, smartphones, lamps, spectacles, laptops, modems and other common household products initially.
We've planned to launch in New Delhi, India initially and would be expending to many other cities all over the world pretty soon.
Would love to have your valuable feedback and suggestions.
- oferzelig 9y agoGiven today's manufacturing, which is manufacture cheap, sell cheap, make it last a short time. Can you price your service such that you make profit and at the same time it won't be cheaper for the customer to buy a new one?
- hammadnasir 9y agoWhat is your suggestion? How much should be the price?
- oferzelig 9y agoI'm not sure. You tell me. Can you price it high enough to make profit and low enough to make people want to repair and not buy a new one?
- hammadnasir 9y agoI think we can. What do you think? Would you mind paying $0.5 extra on a repair amount of $10.
- oferzelig 9y agoI'm not sure what you mean. Please clarify...
- hammadnasir 9y agoCurrently we've decided to charge 5% of the repairing fee as the service charge for example if the repairing fee came out to be $10 then we'd take $0.5 as service charge so you'd have to pay $10.5 in total but we haven't finalised on this model and have decided to do experiments with various models we've thought of.
- reggiepret 9y agoWill you offer a "repair warranty" on your services?
- hammadnasir 9y agoNice question, reggiepret. Yes, we'll offer a "repair warranty" under which we'll offer a free repair if the product doesn't get repaired satisfactorily the first time.
- reggiepret 9y agoHow will you collect and deliver? Are you going to rely on another service provider? Or are you going to have mobile repair units?
- brudgers 9y agoValidate it via users.