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Hi, I’m Sarafina.

I love people, I love cars, and I love building things. Here at SparesIN, we keep things simple and useful.

Part one · What we do & why
We connect mechanics to the closest suppliers, right when they need a part — without the back-and-forth calling.

It started on an ordinary Monday. I walked into a mechanic’s shop to book my Suzuki Swift in for a service, started filling out the paper job card, and the pen ran dry. I called out for another one — but the mechanic could not hear me. He was in the back, on the phone, on hold to a parts supplier. And I thought: it should not be this hard. Not for the driver, and not for the mechanic.

That moment became Meckly, the app that takes the paper out of running a workshop. But there was a second problem hiding in that same moment — the mechanic was on hold ordering parts. As Meckly took shape, that need got clearer, until it became its own thing. That thing is SparesIN.

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Post the part
Tell us the part you need and the vehicle. It takes under a minute.
2
Suppliers compete
Local suppliers send you their best price and how fast they can get it to you.
3
Best price wins
You pick the bid that suits you, with the car still on the hoist. That is it.
SparesIN marketplace overview showing a parts request with supplier bids
About the founder
Sarafina Maina
Founder & builder, SparesIN & Meckly · Melbourne, Australia

I’m a mum of three with a soft spot for cars and a habit of building things to fix the problems I run into. The reason I love building is simple: good tools give us our time back — time to spend with the people we love and to do more of what we enjoy outside of work. That is the whole point. Technology that hands you back your day.

It also helps that I know this world from the inside. I studied mechanical engineering, so I understand what is actually happening under the bonnet, not just on a screen. I spent more than seven years as a senior engineer at NAB, one of Australia’s big four banks, building the kind of systems that move real money and cannot afford to break. And I hold a business degree from Swinburne.

I built Meckly and SparesIN from scratch, in between school drop-offs, because I could not find tools that respected a mechanic’s time the way they should. So I made them myself.

I believe in simplicity and empathy. If a tool is too complex, no one will use it. And if it does not meet you at the point of your need, it was not built for you in the first place.
— Sarafina
The fastest, fairest way to buy parts locally
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Free for mechanics. Suppliers bid free and win their first three orders free. Up and running in under 10 minutes.

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