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Good day everyone!

I'm a co-founder of a new startup company called Oga mechanic. https://ogamechanic.com/ We've been working on it for several months and we're finally confident enough to show our MVP to the public.

We started Oga mechanic because we wanted to fix the "madness" in Nigeria's Auto repair Industry. Basically, we connect car owners in need of repairs to Trusthworthy and Competent car mechanics.
You wouldn't be wrong if you said that some companies have already done this. But they all failed. Why did they fail?
There are several reasons but the major reason is that they tried to include every dick and harry (Or should I say Wasiu and Alabi cheesy) on their platform. Some of them also tried to juggle too many services like Generator repairs, house cleaning, plumbers etc.

We're different because we decided to grab the bull by the horn and build a service that's SOLELY focused on car repairs. We're also trying to build a system of reliable and trustworthy car mechanics. At the moment, we have five mechanics on our platform and all of them have been manually verified by us (We've gone to their workshops to see things for ourselves). We didn't just go to google to get the contact details of mechanics and list them on our platform. Also, Every mechanic that applies through our signup page will have to go through a complusory verification process before they are listed on the search page. We're value Quality over Quantity.

So what's in it for you as a Car owner:
1. A price/cost estimation system: It's no secret that a lot of mechanics overcharge car owners because the car owners don't know the price of spare parts and services (Especially females). To tackle this problem, we built an cost estimation engine that tells you the average price for a car service (e.g Wheel balancing) based on previous jobs that other mechanics have done on similar cars.
Imagine how cool it'll be to know the price of a service before you contact any mechanic. For example, If the average cost (parts and services) to change spark plugs is N3,000, If you contact a mechanic and he's tells you that it's N10,000 then you'll know that he has Inflated the price and he probably wants to cheat you. To be honest, this feature isn't public yet because we'll need data to make it work properly but we've already Implemented it, once we have sufficient data it will be open to the public.

2. Fair pricing: Just like Fiverr and other job sites, We make mechanics compete and bid for your job, when you request for a repair, Mechanics in your area will get your request and then compete for your job by sending detailed quotes that explain how much it'll cost them to fix your car. This will drastically drive prices down as mechanics wouldn't want to lose a customer by overcharging. Since a mechanic knows that you're probably talking to other mechanics, They'll give you the best price for the job.

3. Finances and Car repair history: A lot of Car owners don't keep track of how much they've spent on their cars. A lot of people don't even keep track of their finances (That's another problem for someone to solve wink). When you use Oga mechanic, Every transaction goes through our system so you'll be able to see a complete history of how much you've spent on your car (For the day, week, month and year). You can also see a history of all the repairs that have been done on the car. This information could come in handy when you want to sell the car. Instead of convincing the potential buyer that your car is a "Clean car" that has been serviced regularly, you can simply show them your repair history.

4. Stress-free repairs: No one wants to spend their weekends at the Garage/Workshop, but that's the reality of so many car owners in Nigeria because they don't trust their Mechanics. Most of the mechanics on our platform offer home services so you can easily make an appointment and the mechanic will come to your house and fix the car. If it's a problem that can't be fixed there, They can take it to the workshop and bring it back for you.

We have so many things planned for the future Like Car breakdown Insurance, Emergency repairs, Auto service reminders etc. We already have five mechanics on the platform and 2 paying customers grin. Three of them are in Abuja and the other two are in Lagos. We've started operations in Abuja so It's good news if you reside here smiley

If you stay in Lagos, I encourage you to signup too (We'll send you an email when we're in lagos). Lagos is a very Important city (It's probably the city that needs this service). However, we want to focus our efforts in Abuja and Improve the application before we hit lagos (Our current UI sucks cheesy)

If you have any questions/feedback I'll love to hear them and If you're a Car mechanic that's Interested in our service please send me a private message.

Thank you. Once again, the website URL is https://ogamechanic.com/

Good day everyone!

I'm a co-founder of a new startup company called Oga mechanic. https://ogamechanic.com/ We've been working on it for several months and we're finally confident enough to show our MVP to the public.

We started Oga mechanic because we wanted to fix the "madness" in Nigeria's Auto repair Industry. Basically, we connect car owners in need of repairs to Trusthworthy and Competent car mechanics.
You wouldn't be wrong if you said that some companies have already done this. But they all failed. Why did they fail?
There are several reasons but the major reason is that they tried to include every dick and harry (Or should I say Wasiu and Alabi ) on their platform. Some of them also tried to juggle too many services like Generator repairs, house cleaning, plumbers etc.

We're different because we decided to grab the bull by the horn and build a service that's SOLELY focused on car repairs. We're also trying to build a system of reliable and trustworthy car mechanics. At the moment, we have five mechanics on our platform and all of them have been manually verified by us (We've gone to their workshops to see things for ourselves). We didn't just go to google to get the contact details of mechanics and list them on our platform. Also, Every mechanic that applies through our signup page will have to go through a complusory verification process before they are listed on the search page. We're value Quality over Quantity.

So what's in it for you as a Car owner:
1. A price/cost estimation system: It's no secret that a lot of mechanics overcharge car owners because the car owners don't know the price of spare parts and services (Especially females). To tackle this problem, we built an cost estimation engine that tells you the average price for a car service (e.g Wheel balancing) based on previous jobs that other mechanics have done on similar cars.
Imagine how cool it'll be to know the price of a service before you contact any mechanic. For example, If the average cost (parts and services) to change spark plugs is N3,000, If you contact a mechanic and he's tells you that it's N10,000 then you'll know that he has Inflated the price and he probably wants to cheat you. To be honest, this feature isn't public yet because we'll need data to make it work properly but we've already Implemented it, once we have sufficient data it will be open to the public.

2. Fair pricing: Just like Fiverr and other job sites, We make mechanics compete and bid for your job, when you request for a repair, Mechanics in your area will get your request and then compete for your job by sending detailed quotes that explain how much it'll cost them to fix your car. This will drastically drive prices down as mechanics wouldn't want to lose a customer by overcharging. Since a mechanic knows that you're probably talking to other mechanics, They'll give you the best price for the job.

3. Finances and Car repair history: A lot of Car owners don't keep track of how much they've spent on their cars. A lot of people don't even keep track of their finances (That's another problem for someone to solve ). When you use Oga mechanic, Every transaction goes through our system so you'll be able to see a complete history of how much you've spent on your car (For the day, week, month and year). You can also see a history of all the repairs that have been done on the car. This information could come in handy when you want to sell the car. Instead of convincing the potential buyer that your car is a "Clean car" that has been serviced regularly, you can simply show them your repair history.

4. Stress-free repairs: No one wants to spend their weekends at the Garage/Workshop, but that's the reality of so many car owners in Nigeria because they don't trust their Mechanics. Most of the mechanics on our platform offer home services so you can easily make an appointment and the mechanic will come to your house and fix the car. If it's a problem that can't be fixed there, They can take it to the workshop and bring it back for you.

We have so many things planned for the future Like Car breakdown Insurance, Emergency repairs, Auto service reminders etc. We already have five mechanics on the platform and 2 paying customers . Three of them are in Abuja and the other two are in Lagos. We've started operations in Abuja so It's good news if you reside here

If you stay in Lagos, I encourage you to signup too (We'll send you an email when we're in lagos). Lagos is a very Important city (It's probably the city that needs this service). However, we want to focus our efforts in Abuja and Improve the application before we hit lagos (Our current UI sucks )

If you have any questions/feedback I'll love to hear them and If you're a Car mechanic that's Interested in our service please send me a private message.

Thank you. Once again, the website URL is https://ogamechanic.com/

valmunich:
Who ask you?

Sharap!

The gif was supposed to be animated

I've been writing this tutorial since the beginning of the year it's finally ready for public consumption

https://danidee10.github.io/2018/01/01/realtime-django-1.html

It leverages an open source notification library i created called django-notifs to send messages to RabbitMQ, the messages are consumed and then sent down to the user's through WebSockets (uWSGI websockets).

The source code for the chat application is available on github https://github.com/danidee10/chatire
The source for django-notifs https://github.com/danidee10/django-notifs

I'm currently working on an API for django-notifs to decouple it from django and make it usable from any system/app you can think of PHP, Node, a frontend SPA, Mobile apps, Command line etc

If you have any suggestions on how it can be improved or you want to contribute. you can raise an issue on github or here on nairaland.

Thanks for reading

missunknown:
Are you trying to be funny or what? Take your stupidity elsewhere, are you an abandoned child cos you have no regard for a mother

He's trying to be like NwaAmaikpe u can even see it from his name.

If its not NwaAmaikpe it can't be NwaAmaikpe

Story.... He gave her Head.

Translating that to the restaurant story.

The waiter put the Tiramisu (or whatever) near your nose and YOU WERE ENJOYING THE AROMA.

victormartyn:
Nice One.

Can they organize WheelBarrow Race in another part of this country?

With Ortomatic cars right

enyi1:
Your guy is a fraud. He might be streaming online porn for all i know. But if he's definitely doing a job, it would be simpler and smarter on a smart phone!!! because anything you can do on a computer, you can also do on a smart phone. In conclusion he's probably seeing a video on a bigger screen.

Oya goan compile KDE 5 on ur phone

forghon:
Wait if u become d president one day carry d appointments and giv it to ur enemies

I tire ooo

Though I'm not Pro Buhari

But only a fool will give appointments to those that clearly hate him.

Promismike:
Believe me Niger Delta would have been like Dubai or Singapore if their wasn't any forced one Nigeria.

This is one of the too many failings of one Nigeria. I keep wondering how Niger delta will look like if at all it gets its own republic.

Congrats my brother your fight was not in vain.

So u think ND Leaders and the Militant leaders (Tompolo and Co) give a fuckkk about the people

Tweetysparkles:
That bond between father and daughter, i had always love it buy aint opportune to get it , so am dedicating these space for my child to feel and enjoy the bond between her and her dad ... Amen

Goan do Sex change na

sKy007:
I dont know of any country called England.

You are in UK and enjoying autonomy as a region under Britain and yet the same Britain is against any call for restructuring in Nigeria or return to 1963 constitution or worse case self-determination. They believe they benefit better when a Northerner is controlling the resources

Nigeria cannot achieved the level of progress or development like Britain in the next 100 years under this present arrangement, so the "shame" is duly acknowledged.

You guys must always find a way to blame the North...Is it the North that embezzled the money meant for Delta State

deepwater:
Sega mega drive 2

So girls played SEGA too

Turantula:
XACZBXACZBXAA - Kung Lao will surely do a better job -- BRUTALITY!!!

No Jax would do better

BBYBYBBYBYBY

deepwater:
Finish her!!!!!!

XC
XC
XC
ABC
XYZ
ABC
XYZ
ABC
ZZZZZZZ


NOOB SAIBOT BRUTALITY

for the love of Mortal Kombat

Oga it's ZYX not XYZ u no sabi

FuckTheZero:
Even Ikébé (buttocks) come from the Urhobo language.

And don't get me started with their slangs

Errm Bini also has Ikebe

And according to history the Urhobo tribe migrated from Bini

greatman247:
Most South African companies in Nigeria are big thieves. Buy Na wealthy Nigerians without foresight or lack of interest in the same business to give them stiff competitions caused it. We can't keep complaining without any action to reduce their monopolistic tendencies and power. If not for Glo owner, MTN for worst pass Dstv self. Then, MTN told us per seconds billings was not possible until when Glo came and said it was possible. They MTN was then doing per seconds billings when Glo started, they knew they will loose customers so they adjusted.

Lmao

Imagine

They said they can't reprogram their machines to use per second Billing, that time once call cut for 3 seconds....1 minute don go

Eberex:
2 albums. Their recent album is not complete yet

I'll assume Ghost Stories and A head full of dreams....Both of them are Great, though my worst Album (if i had to choose) would be Mylo xyloto

I have all their Albums and EP's (From Safety EP) down to A head Full of Dreams

I thought i'd heard all their songs...Until i entered youtube and i discovered over 15 songs (that were never released) that i'd never heard before.

And i wonder why they never released them, because some of them are even better than those that were released.

IamAirforce1:
The girl breast don finish

I mean "finished".

How else do you guys expect boobs to be na? These are perfectly normal boobs...Or should it be standing like all those fake IndecentStar boobs

The bigger it is, the more it'll drop it's only Agbalumo boobs that can stand like that

sunshineR:
Hmmmm see her fallen olympus

one minute silence for her fallen heroes

How else do you guys expect boobs to be na? These are perfectly normal boobs...Or should it be standing like all those fake IndecentStar boobs

Eberex:
I play their tracks and set my machine on "repeat all" till the next morning

Sorry for the late Reply, When you say "their tracks" How many tracks/Albums

ThatCEO:
This guy disgrace boys that year . Thank God for AJ.

Do u think AJ would've been able to Defeat Vitali Klitschko?

I doubt it.

Eberex:
coldplay EVERGLOW makes me fly anytime i listen to it

I've finally seen a Coldplay fan.

Mine is True Love from the Ghost Stories Album

How much of a die hard Fan Are you?

julietm123:
Oh,so he is basing his judgement on camp experience? Nawa. I served in Sokoto,and I can say northerners discriminate, are aggressive and unfriendly. Not all Sha. You have to dress like a Muslim woman before some even agree to sell things for you in the market. They can attack at any time. They can even kill over trival matters. Even someone you are friendly with will attack you over a trival matter. They were rejoicing after the 9/11attack,in fact, that was the day I marked them bad. I spit on their heads.

I'm not in support of terrorism. But do u know why many Muslims rejoiced when 9/11 happened?

Because the USA killed millions of innocent Civilians when they invaded IRAQ under the pretence that they were looking for nuclear/chemical weapons (There was nothing @ the end of the day).

America is not as good as the media paints them to be.

Eh hen

TheGoodJoe:
So you think companies that own beverage drinks and milk that went on to produce their products in sachets do not know business.

Things like Sachet Peak, Sachet bournvita etc.

There are far more poor people than the rich. If you can sell products to these poor people, you hit it big.

I jus tire for the guy. That's where you even make more money. If he doubts it he can ask Indomie, Golden penny, Cowbell etc

elfico:
@Op many people you put up there are not COMPUTER SCIENTISTS in my opinion.

Zuckerberg an Elon Musk are programmers and entreprenueur.

You forgot Alan Turing, Bjarne Stroustup, Charles Babbage, Ada Byron, Noam Chomsky e.t.c

And you still forgot one of the greatest. The Co-creator abi Co-founder :-D of the C programming language which he later used to write UNIX. DENNIS RITCHIE.

C is the backbone of a lot of software and programming languages today. Without C there would be no Unix, No Windows, No C++, No Unix, No OSX, no Java, no Python, no Ruby, no Go, etc etc

piagetskinner:
life is complicated...



u like a lady, she doesn't like u back....a lady likes u but u don't like her

I jus tire. All the ones I dey pursue no dey gree

Na the one wey I no send dey die for me. Chai