Uber For Mechanics
Uber Mechanic, a car repair marketplace that allows mechanics to fix your cars at your house, claims to reduce the costs unto 30%-50% from shops and dealers. This is the Uber for mechanics. On the app, you can see profiles of the mechanics, and Appoets reviews on them and their services, repair records and the price. They also offer helpful notifications of your car to appear on your smart phone. Guess who won’t forget to change the oil on time now.
The company has raised $1.8M in seed funding from Y Combinator, SV Angel, Yuri Milner, Andreessen Horowitz, Lerer Ventures, Launch Capital, Jeff Clavier, Crunchfund, Paige Craig, A-Grade Investments, Jawed Karim, Justin Waldron, Joshua Schachter and Kevin Freedman.
The company also sells parts. The basic repair and maintained for an out of warranty non-luxury car is $120B per year. The company currently has 10 mechanics. A background check, interview and verifying of the certification of the mechanic takes place before they are hired to work for YourMechanic. Agarwal’s aim along with his team was to eliminate the fact that most of the money earned by the mechanic goes shopping owner. They are working towards eliminating the shop owner as a whole. read more
The company has raised $1.8M in seed funding from Y Combinator, SV Angel, Yuri Milner, Andreessen Horowitz, Lerer Ventures, Launch Capital, Jeff Clavier, Crunchfund, Paige Craig, A-Grade Investments, Jawed Karim, Justin Waldron, Joshua Schachter and Kevin Freedman.
The company also sells parts. The basic repair and maintained for an out of warranty non-luxury car is $120B per year. The company currently has 10 mechanics. A background check, interview and verifying of the certification of the mechanic takes place before they are hired to work for YourMechanic. Agarwal’s aim along with his team was to eliminate the fact that most of the money earned by the mechanic goes shopping owner. They are working towards eliminating the shop owner as a whole. read more
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