The Dry Cleaner app launches in Merseyside
Irish Entrepreneur, Jonathan O’Brien, has combinedhis experience of working in his family dry cleaners with a passion for computer science, and has created an innovative new digital app.
The Dry Cleaner App launched in Liverpool this week, along with other North West locations, and is the latest product set to revolutionise the garment care industry.
Mr O’Brien, from Cork, has signed up hundreds of clothes care businesses across the UK and Ireland and announced partnerships with more than a dozen shops in Liverpool this month.
The app serves as a one-stop-shop to connect the customer to local cleaners, browse individual price lists, as well as schedule the collection and delivery for their cleaning; making caring for clothes your more convenient.
It helps to quickly connect customers online to their nearest garment cleaning professional.
Mr O’Brien, who has spent months visiting each business, says he wanted to create something that contributes and is useful for the industry.
He said:
“I wanted to build something that the shops could use without any cost to them. I feel that nowadays some people are always wanting to take a cut of any business and I believe there is another approach.”
Four years ago he received seed funding and has been working on his app and fine tuning the service ever since.
Mr O’Brien was introduced to the British-Irish Chamber of Commerce and UK Trade and Investment and consequently moved his business to the North West in 2012.
He currently employs two full-time and three part-time staff and wants to grow his concept across the UK and Ireland.
He said:
“I invented this app so that I could prove that the ideas I had for a mobile-based app for the garment care industry could be made to work effectively.
“The idea also had to be made to work seamlessly for any high street cleaner, whether large or small, for a single retail outlet or for one with several branches.”
The free app is available for iPhone, Android and iPad and enables any cleaner to be in direct personal contact with their customers old and new, in order to receive orders for collection and delivery of garments.
Mr O’Brien added:
“Basically I’m taking the hundreds of websites across the UK and Ireland that provide this service and I’m bringing them mobile.”