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  1. J

    Should I start this business with my brother?

    It's good advice man, I really do appreciate it. A bunch of "this sucks" now will spare us a bunch of "this sucks" after spending time and money building something people don't want. Last thought - what if it's not complex stuff, but pretty basic info retrieval? If you're looking up "what's the...
  2. J

    Should I start this business with my brother?

    If I could build that i'd already have done it... Enough people have **** all over the "talk to a tech" idea that I won't belabor it - thanks for the feedback man. On the voice idea; is the problem with not liking the idea of talking to your computer, or just that it's a solution to a problem...
  3. J

    Should I start this business with my brother?

    Another great response, thanks for the feedback man. Sounds like most people think this idea is somewhere between mediocre and god-awful, which is really good to know, honestly. If we were to take this in another direction - how about if we just try to take a little friction of out mechanics'...
  4. J

    Should I start this business with my brother?

    This is good advice man. I don't know that we've got the hardware chops to make a scan tool, unfortunately. How about: - We buy manuals for a bunch of common units - We built a website to let you ask questions in plain english (hey what's the torque spec for X on a 2014 cat D6) and give you...
  5. J

    Should I start this business with my brother?

    We were going to take something like a 2% rake. Because this is going to be software-based, it's not like we need to cover rents, so we can pass through most of the money to the tech - which helps attract talent. I was thinking that JustAnswer covers a lot of ground (you can get tax advice on...
  6. J

    Should I start this business with my brother?

    Thanks, I appreciate the benefit of the doubt. Looking to get some advice on what would make this useful to everybody in the forum, so hopefully some good comes of it.
  7. J

    Should I start this business with my brother?

    It's a good question. I was thinking we'd buy one of each as we needed it, and once we've got one we can make it available to every tech, so as we grow we'd only need one copy of each manual
  8. J

    Should I start this business with my brother?

    $10 minutes for a $10 minute phone call is $60 an hour without turning a wrench, that's pretty good - no?
  9. J

    Should I start this business with my brother?

    Hey y'all. My brother's a software guy and he wants to team up with me to build a website where you can video-chat technicians when you've got a question. It would be pretty cheap, like $10 for a 10 minute call Mostly wondering - would you use it, if we made it? I know some great technicians...
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