25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone screens [video] • Hacker News Board

Re: 25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone screens [video]

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Post by aj_icracked » Sun, Jun 23, 2013, 10:56 PM UTC

JoshTv wrote: post #5

You can always make money out of broken stuffs/junks/trash. With the right idea, skill,and marketing; people can earn millions like these guys did.

Haha, still working on the millions part. We're launching an insurance company, buyback, and redistribution in the next 6 months so we're really excited about that.

Thanks for the comments, good and bad :)

Re: 25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone screens [video]

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Post by namuol » Sun, Jun 23, 2013, 10:58 PM UTC

It's pretty easy to do. My sister just gave me her old cracked iPhone 4 because she thought it was worthless. It still worked fine, but I fixed the screen for about $30 and a few hours of sweaty-palm dis/assembly. Works perfectly now.

Re: 25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone screens [video]

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Post by TheBiv » Sun, Jun 23, 2013, 11:00 PM UTC

I loved his smile when asked why he is building the company...it made it seem like he wanted to say "Because I can make a lot of money with it", but luckily he chose the right answer of framing who his service is helping. Really great execution there!

Re: 25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone screens [video]

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Post by cheery » Sun, Jun 23, 2013, 11:09 PM UTC

Pick a fatal design flaw in popular product, such as fragile display in iPhone. Build up a repair service around that flaw.

If I invented a similar get-rich-quick-scheme I might also grin like a trollface and that guy in the video.

Re: 25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone screens [video]

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Post by glomph » Sun, Jun 23, 2013, 11:14 PM UTC

It is depressing that it is news that there is money in fixing popular things.

Re: 25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone screens [video]

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Post by crgt » Sun, Jun 23, 2013, 11:15 PM UTC

My iPhone screen is cracked. Do I really have to give up my contact info just to find out how much it costs to fix it with this service? Or did I just miss pricing on the mobile site somehow?

Re: 25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone screens [video]

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Post by hippich » Sun, Jun 23, 2013, 11:23 PM UTC

namuol wrote: post #12

It's pretty easy to do. My sister just gave me her old cracked iPhone 4 because she thought it was worthless. It still worked fine, but I fixed the screen for about $30 and a few hours of sweaty-palm dis/assembly. Works perfectly now.

i believe iphone 4s and 5 have welded glass or something making it much harder to replace alone. as a result usually they replace lcd+glass which make it much more expensive.

Re: 25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone screens [video]

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Post by randomdrake » Sun, Jun 23, 2013, 11:24 PM UTC

crgt wrote: post #16

My iPhone screen is cracked. Do I really have to give up my contact info just to find out how much it costs to fix it with this service? Or did I just miss pricing on the mobile site somehow?

Prices vary from iTech to iTech so we need a bit of information to connect you with an iTech to find out the price for their services.

If you're interested, we also have mail-in and DIY services that you can check out on our shop here:

http://shop.icracked.com

Re: 25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone screens [video]

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Post by abhiv » Sun, Jun 23, 2013, 11:29 PM UTC

Genuinely curious about how this is a venture-funded company. How is this scalable? Is there any tech involved at all? (Not that technology is necessary to be venture-funded, but it helps with nonlinear growth.)

Re: 25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone screens [video]

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Post by randomdrake » Sun, Jun 23, 2013, 11:37 PM UTC

abhiv wrote: post #19

Genuinely curious about how this is a venture-funded company. How is this scalable? Is there any tech involved at all? (Not that technology is necessary to be venture-funded, but it helps with nonlinear growth.)

We believe that this is absolutely scalable as we've watched successful growth into national and international markets. On the technology front, we have created an incredible on demand geolocational dispatch and communications service. Our unique iOS app for our worldwide iTechs empowers them to be connected to this service at all times allowing them to successfully run their businesses. We're really doing some pretty exciting things beyond fixing phones and we can't wait for everyone to see what's next with our technologies.