We at Bob’s Repair feel bad that today is April 1st and we completely forgot to come up with an April-fools joke. You know what’s not a joke? A leaky sink faucet drips 10 drops a minute will waste 347 gallons of water per year. The USGS even has a calculator on their website showing this drip activity. A leaky shower faucet can add $20 a month to the water bill. If you happen to live in Charlotte, then Dave from ER Plumbing could be the guy that comes and fixes your drips, but the chances of you finding him in the first place are slim to none. It’s expensive for plumbers to advertise online, and those costs are always passed on to the consumer. At Bob’s Repair, we’re striving to connect consumers and contractors in the most efficient manner possible to reduce these costs.

347 gallons of water are wasted with a sink that drips one time every 6 seconds. Also, $50 is wasted in advertising costs that get pinned onto the customer.

Here’s our April 1st Update: We’ve been heads-down on the finishing touches on our token sale platform. At Bob’s Repair, we are 3 days away from starting the main sale (starting April 4th). In anticipation of a great sale during April we thought we’d start by showing the details of our product planning process. As we’ve grown rapidly in the past few months, we’ve separated our engineering teams into three distinct groups that all work together.

Our Token Offering Engineers are focusing on the platform to execute the Sale, and interface daily with our blockchain engineering team, lead by Pavel Rubin. For the last 9 months our Blockchain Engineering group has worked on keeping tabs on the latest technology that could be used to make a stack as efficient as possible. The aim is to deliver on our goals of disruption in the home repair space. Our newest team, the Product Engineering team is focused on the customer-facing products, which will focus on connecting the consumer to the contractor. We’re excited to be able to start sharing mockups and functional prototypes of our apps, and will be giving regular updates throughout and after our main sale.

As we’ve added members to our engineering teams, it has grown in quantity, geographic footprint, and language coverage. We’re currently at a total of 15 engineering resources, and that number will grow throughout Q2 and Q3 2018 as we expand. Our engineering team lives in 6 countries, and is fluent in 7 languages. We’re even doing manual translations for our Apps, to make sure that our website documentation as well as the jobs we facilitate make sense in all areas we support.

Telegram is nearing 50,000 users!

Between 2014 and 2017 we helped connect over 50,000 consumers to contractors that needed to get the job done right. We’re coming up on a large milestone for Bob’s Repair: 50,000 telegram users. Come join our active telegram community, currently over 45,000 strong!