Our
Story.

My first PC build

I built my first gaming computer. That became the beginning of a lifelong fascination with hardware that, fourteen years later, would turn into a full-time service.

How it all started

My journey as the owner of a console repair service began in 2017. It wasn't so much a business decision as a natural continuation of an interest I'd had since 2006 — building gaming PCs and working with hardware. Console service felt like just another direction I genuinely wanted to develop.

Brand: «PS4 Cleaning & Thermal Paste Replacement in Saint Petersburg»

Created a public group on VKontakte. The name was descriptive — search-friendly, before SEO mattered to me.

First paid order

It happened almost by accident. I cleaned my own PS4 Pro, then a friend's, then a friend of a friend's. Word of mouth picked up and the process became unstoppable. April 2018 brought one of the first paying orders that can be called the real starting point of a service.

Brand: MOPS — PlayStation Service Workshop

The main audience by then was PS4 owners, so the brand sharpened around PlayStation. MOPS started as the initials of the Russian name of the Saint Petersburg shop — «Sony Console Service Workshop». In Russian, those four initials happen to spell the word for «pug» — and that happy coincidence is how the friendly little dog became the brand's mascot.

Growth and craft

Over the first five years I serviced more than 2 000 gaming consoles. Across all platforms over 500 reviews came in during the Saint Petersburg years — fewer than ten were negative, which wasn't an accident.

“Service quality is more important than speed, because I wanted people to come back and recommend us further.”

Soldering & laptop repair training

Completed soldering and laptop-repair courses and passed the master exam. This expanded the range from console cleaning to laptop battery replacement and motherboard-level repairs.

Xbox 360 clamping plate fix

Started modifying the first two PS4 Pro revisions with a clamping plate borrowed from the Xbox 360. The mod compensated for a known engineering flaw in Sony's APU mounting and made the console run noticeably quieter — one of the most rewarding fixes of that period.

DualShock 4 stick repair

Started fixing DualShock 4 stick drift. Today we do the same for DualSense on PS5.

PlayStation 5 cleaning, no disassembly

Started cleaning the first PS5 consoles using a no-disassembly method that preserves the factory warranty.

First teammate — Stas Plotskikh

Order volume crossed the line where one pair of hands wasn't enough. Stas joined and helped carry the workload.

Move and a new chapter

After moving to Finland I handed the Saint Petersburg service to Stanislav and began rebuilding here. In Joensuu there were practically no orders — one local shop already handled the small demand well.

Move to Helsinki

Started planning a properly registered Finnish company.

Full operation in Greater Helsinki

Late 2025 the service is fully running across Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa and Kerava. The goal is a modern, honest, technically competent repair service that competes with established shops not on loud promises but on the quality of the work itself.