Hello from Caen, Normandy!
If you receive this email today, it’s because you already heard about (p)repair.
We will start by saying you a very huge THANK YOU, because you are part of our first supporters, and it is really really important to get you by our side!
For the fist newsletter of our history, we will give you 2 key numbers on the problem that we want to attack:
- 50% of failures on products that we use are due to a lack of maintenance 1, 2, 3
- it represents 14 millions of household appliances / year in France 2
And so, how will we deal with that?
→ By allowing you to register the products that you own on our application, to:
- send you push notification on their good maintenance
- encourage you
- discover until where we will go together, because we believe that union makes force
Where are we now?
→ We just ended an intensive 3 months program with Normandie Incubation: the Sterne route. 4 It closed with a pitch contest on 16/06/2023!
→ We met several actors ready to engage with us to conduct pilot projects. We will quote in this letter:
- Damien Cottebrune, passionate professional repairer, founder of Livermore, but also columnist for France 3 and Radio France bleu! Livermore is a repair shop that unites a community of more than 5 000 customers and enthusiasts in Cherbourg area, Normandy. 5
- Amélie Barbier, Director of AfB Normandy, passionate by her mission. AfB refurbishes electronic devices such as computers and smartphones, with a team composed from 70% of persons with disabilities. Good for society, wallet and environment! 6
→ We are today in a phase of development for our application, and we hope to give you excellent news very soon!
Thank you infinitely for you support <3
See you in September!
Guillaume, from the (p)repair team
“5ème édition du SAV FNAC-DARTY”, Fnac-Darty – 2022 ; https://leclaireur.fnac.com/barometre-sav/infographie ↩︎
“Murfy : Etude des pannes du gros électroménager”, Murfy – 2019 ; https://www.actu-environnement.com/media/pdf/dit-aujourdhui/823-etude.pdf ↩︎ ↩︎
“Allonger la durée d’usage des objets : un gain pour la planète et le porte-monnaie”, ADEME – 2020 ; https://presse.ademe.fr/2020/06/allonger-la-duree-dusage-des-objets-un-gain-pour-la-planete-et-pour-le-porte-monnaie.html ↩︎
Linkedin page of the “itinéraire Sterne” ; https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/itineraire-sterne/ ↩︎
Facebook Page of Livermore ; https://www.facebook.com/Boutique.Atelier.Livermore ↩︎
AfB’s website ; https://www.afbshop.fr/ ↩︎