A New Name on an Existing Workshop
RepytotoRP is new. The workshop behind it is not. We think you should know which is which before you decide whether to trust us with a product.
What we are
A product development and small batch manufacturing operation working out of our own workshop in Vietnam, selling to founders and product teams in the United States.
The brand is new. The people, the equipment and the production experience behind it are not — this is an existing workshop putting a name on work it already does, aimed at customers it has not served directly before.
Why we built it this way
Because we kept seeing the same failure. A founder spends their first budget on a beautiful prototype, then discovers it cannot be manufactured, and the second budget goes on re-engineering the first one. The money runs out somewhere in the middle, before anything has ever been sold.
A workshop that does both phases does not have that problem to hand off. The prototype gets designed for the process that will produce it, because the same people have to produce it.
What we will not claim
We are not going to put a project count or a decade number on this page. A new brand that advertises a long track record is either borrowing someone else's or counting something that does not mean what you would assume.
What we will do instead: tell you exactly which processes are in house, and connect you with clients who can describe what working with us was like. Both of those are checkable. A number on a homepage is not.
Your designs
Client work here is covered by non-disclosure agreements, and that is why there is no portfolio gallery on this site. The same protection applies to you — which is worth more than seeing somebody else's product on our homepage would be.
We will update this panel rather than quietly rewrite the page. If a line says "in progress" it is because it is in progress today.
No US entity yet. A US company is being set up; it does not exist at the time of writing. Until it does, any contract is with the Vietnam entity. If contracting with a US counterparty is a requirement for you, ask before you start — do not assume it from a .com address.
Three things that are true from day one
These do not depend on how long the brand has existed.
Phase 2 constrains Phase 1
The prototype is engineered for the process that will manufacture it, even when that makes the prototype itself less elegant.
You approve each gate
The design before anything is cut, the tested unit before a batch is considered, and a production sample before a run starts.
We say no when the answer is no
If the product will not work, or the unit cost lands where nobody will pay, that is the useful answer. It is also the cheap one, if you hear it in Phase 1.