At Bob’s Repair, we’re 2 days away from the start of our main sale. Based on success of our pre-sale, and the increasing growth of our telegram community, we recognize that we've got a great concept and are already working on the Bob’s Repair Application Ecosystem.

Our product management team is spending April looking into the competition of the marketplace, making sure that we look at what’s already been done, see what’s working, and where the failures are in the user experience. We don’r underestimate the complexity of creating our platform, as our platform is only successful when both contractors and consumers have an easy experience that’s attractive and provides real value. Make sure you’re registered at bobsrepair.com to get updates as we discuss the pros and cons of the current players home repair landscape.

Here’s a preview of a responsive website and mobile prototype for consumer on-boarding. We wanted prominent display of the categories — the types of jobs — and wanted something that’d be flexible on all browsers and mobile devices.

Screencrap from landing page to attract both consumers and contractors to the Bob’s Repair Application Ecosystem.

The tiled job category approach helps us be flexible with categories. We want to take all of the complexity in the consumer-onboarding process and make it as easy as possible to find a job, find a worker to complete that job, and make sure the transaction happens in a secure and trusted fashion.

The example here shows a registration option. We’ve toyed around with the idea of zero-registration platform, but we’ve got feedback from our followers that the trust for both parties is crucial to our platform. It’s important that the contractors are able to review consumers, and consumers can review contractors!

Icons Galore!

Our UX/UI will eventually create our own design language for the Bob’s Repair ecosystem, but for now our focus isn't on an icon-set, it’s about providing meaningful pictures that explain the jobs, so there’s no confusion as to the categories we’re showing to the consumer.

A google image search shows a plethora of home repair icons. For now our focus on prototyping features and we’ll worry about pixel-perfect iconography in the future.

Our UX/UI will eventually create our own design language for the Bob’s Repair ecosystem, but for now our focus is on finding the best avenues to on-board consumers and contractors so that we can achieve critical mass needed for network effect. We’re also considering a Bob’s Repair iconography contest for tokens in the near future!