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Anytime Mechanic.
Imagine driving around the picturesque locations in Goa and your vehicle breaks down. With no mechanic near you in sight, you may feel helpless. Well not anymore! Now you can avail of the services of a mechanic by dialling ‘AnyTime Mechanic (ATM),’ which provides bike and car mechanic details nearest to you plus arranges to get your vehicle fixed at the earliest.
AnyTime Mechanic is the brainchild of two students
- Aaron Dias and Ian Decosta. It was launched on the 1st of November 2022 at the hands of Laxmikant Parsekar, the ex-Chief Minister of Goa. AnyTime Mechanic provides bike and car mechanics and towing services as well.
How it works is pretty simple: “Imagine your car broke down at a place you know nothing about, you give a call to AnyTime Mechanic or you can even WhatsApp them, and they’ll provide you with the details of the nearest available mechanic.”
“Our priority is the customer and not profits”, say Aaron and Ian, and rightly so as they strive towards providing service first without thinking of profits. Even if all their mechanics are busy, they provide you with some other mechanic whom they haven’t tied up with. That is how dedicated they are to their customers.
Aaron and Ian, both friends for 17 years, decided to start this business.
Aaron Dias is a B. Com graduate from St. Xaviers College in Mapusa, North Goa. He is currently a Cost Management Student, which makes managing costs and effectively cutting costs his area of expertise. He manages the financial part. On the other hand, Ian Decosta a student of Architecture at Altinho, Panaji, loves vehicles, especially bikes. He owns an NS 200. His forte is understanding vehicles and the customer’s needs on-road among other things.
The primary idea behind starting ATM was to help people. Seeing a lot of people struggling to find mechanics on-road gave them inspiration. “It is particularly difficult for elderly people in case they get stranded in the middle of the road.” Keeping that in mind, they made their service easily accessible by being available with just a phone call or WhatsApp.
As of now, their service is available in North Goa but they have plans to expand in South Goa in January 2023. They want to learn more about running a business first before expanding, which is a mature way of tackling challenges so that they can prevent mistakes.
Their major challenge has been juggling studies and business at the same time. Handling one is difficult, imagine doing both! Other than that, on the work front, challenges came in the face of managing mechanics and making it affordable for the customers. Being able to manage so many mechanics is challenging to say the least. But by making it costeffective for customers along with ensuring the profitability for the mechanics, they also get a share to expand the business, which is commendable. They started their venture with their pocket money. Their family did come out in support but they wanted to do it completely on their own.
Their primary objective is to help customers. Aaron has reduced the daily costs to a minimum which now enables them to run for months with little to no profit, and they are ready for it.
That is the extent to which AnyTime Mechanic is willing to go just for the sake of customer satisfaction and providing them with proper service.
“It is very easy to plan something and keep it in the books, the real challenge is when you execute it on the field,” says Aaron. He advises people to take the leap and execute the idea they have in their minds. He feels that someone may have the best idea for a business but if they won’t work on it and execute it, it won’t be of any use. He urges everyone to execute the project and work on them. Aaron is willing to provide cost management ideas to anyone who comes to him for advice on how to reduce costs effectively and maximize profits.
As for them, they believe in the power of community and say that if anyone has liked the service they’ve provided, they must spread the word to others about ATM in order to make people aware of the service they provide.
You can reach out to AnyTime Mechanic by calling them or sending a message on WhatsApp at 8605429328.
