Ask HN: What do you think about this startup idea I'm working on?

Posted by hammadnasir on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @12:16AM
from the ask-hn dept.

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.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think about this startup idea I'm wor... by oferzelig on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @12:25AM (#14243955)

Given 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?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think about this startup idea I'm wor... by hammadnasir on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @12:32AM (#14243977)

What is your suggestion? How much should be the price?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think about this startup idea I'm wor... by oferzelig on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @01:57AM (#14244248)

I'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?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think about this startup idea I'm wor... by hammadnasir on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @02:07AM (#14244283)

I think we can. What do you think? Would you mind paying $0.5 extra on a repair amount of $10.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think about this startup idea I'm wor... by oferzelig on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @01:46AM (#14253344)

I'm not sure what you mean. Please clarify...

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think about this startup idea I'm wor... by hammadnasir on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @02:33AM (#14253508)

Currently 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.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think about this startup idea I'm wor... by reggiepret on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @01:53AM (#14244231)

Will you offer a "repair warranty" on your services?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think about this startup idea I'm wor... by hammadnasir on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @02:04AM (#14244274)

Nice 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.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think about this startup idea I'm wor... by reggiepret on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @03:36AM (#14244624)

How will you collect and deliver? Are you going to rely on another service provider? Or are you going to have mobile repair units?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think about this startup idea I'm wor... by brudgers on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @12:14PM (#14247667)

Validate it via users.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think about this startup idea I'm wor... by oferzelig on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @01:47AM (#14253349)

I think that's exactly what he's doing in this thread.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you think about this startup idea I'm wor... by brudgers on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @02:38AM (#14253529)

By a user I mean person who has used the service to pick up and repair an item. I do not mean people who are using Hacker News.

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