Last weekend we took part in UP London’s Hackathon at Imperial College, focused on the theme of resilience in urban environments. It was a great opportunity for us to start working on our future platform, connecting amateur and professional repairers with people in need of repairing the broken things in their lives. The idea is to create a platform drastically reducing the barriers to repair: distance, trust, flexibility, high cost, effective skill-matching. And allowing everyone to submit tips and recommendations for wonderful repairers out there. Read more about our concept for the platform, and get in touch with us if you want to support its development and help out. We need funds as well as talented developers to turn it into reality. Huge thanks to @mrchrisadams and @pmackay for all their help in prototyping with us.
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