Episode 5 of Rick and Morty's first season is relevant (the Mister Meeseeks episode).
OOOOOH YEAH, CAN DO!
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#102So this is just Amex Plat/Centurion concierge for people who prefer to text than call?
Have you tried Amex Platinum concierge? If they can deliver, this looks better in practice.
The number of interactions (over email) that I need to have with them to get even a simple request like a restaurant reservation done from Amex Platinum concierge has made me look around for alternatives.
FWIW, even Facebook's assistant 'M' is far better at handling tasks that Platinum concierge.
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#103$100 an hour sounds expensive. $1/minute might be a better published price. And also suggest that it's priced in minute increments.
Thanks for the feedback. You're right, you bring up a good point that isn't explained as much on the website as it could be. We actually track time down to the second and display really detailed reports to users every day about how the time was utilized. Quite often a simple request can end up being $3-$4.
Is there a way to set a maximum price or time you're willing to pay for each request? My biggest hesitation about using something like this would be that it would end up costing way more than I anticipated - something I expect to take 30 minutes could take 4 hours cost $400 instead of $50.
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#104The landing page seems like a joke or a scam. I was honestly confused as to whether this was a legitimate service.
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#105I really am not a fan of the hyperminimalistic "we can do anything trust us!" landing pages that every text-for-personal-assistant seems to think is brilliant marketing copy. There are examples of Magic+ requests , but no real-world examples of outcomes and whether the request was filled successfully to the customer's satisfaction. Relatedly, the $100/hr is suspicious because it's impossible to audit the time spent b…
Thanks for the feedback. Magic has been in an interesting position as a startup ever since our website went viral in Feb. 2015. Starting then, we've had more demand than supply for our product every single day. That's why we never iterated our original landing page -- marketing was never our biggest problem, in fact it was our smallest. That said, I completely agree with you, that there would be much more powerful wa…
Even if the time is broken down, what's the incentive to be as efficient/cost-effective as possible? I get that cost is not the primary driver here but surely it is not open-ended.
Also, invariably with a complex task, there's going to be a lot of dead time spent waiting while coordinating.
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#106A lot of skepticism here, which is understandable given the somewhat unbelievable scope of what they are promising.
I'm a very active user of Magic+, so I'll give my perspective. (and of course I've been working with them from the beginning at YC, so you're also free to discard my opinion as biased)
For me, Magic+ is basically the impossibly good personal assistant, kind of like Jarvis in Iron Man, or Emily in The Devil Wears Prada. Unlike a conventional assistant, it's available 24/7, always happy to take on more work, and capable of accomplishing just about anything.
Obviously the $100/hr price point puts it out of reach for most people, but my expectation (as an investor) is that as the tech improves, they will be able to bring down the price while maintaining or even improving the quality of the service (I call this the Tesla strategy).
For me however, $100/hr is totally worth it since it effectively increases my leverage and enables me to get more done in less time. I've used it to plan events for YC founders, answer questions that are hard to Google (they will find the right experts and ask them), and provide unique and memorable gifts to friends, family, and business partners. I'm used to paying a high price for quality professional services such as accountants or lawyers, so $100/hr for the best possible assistant feels completely reasonable and rational.
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#107I just signed up to see if they could renegotiate my Comcast price for me. It turns out you have to buy either 10 hours at $100/hour or 40 hours at $75/hour to get started. That's way too steep to try something out.
Lol. Great idea although it would likely take longer than that.
I would however pay for an outcome based solution to this as it's a pain to call Comcast every year. Renegotiate to $X for Y and I'll pay.
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#108I thought this was satire. Came here to see the jokes. None of you seem to be treating it like satire though.
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I'm far from super rich, but I make a small multiple of most senior dev salaries, and I could see this being useful
If you make 3x of senior dev salary in the SF then you are in the 1%. So i'd probably consider you super rich.
To me, 1% is rich, but not "super rich". The 1% net worth cutoff in the US is somewhere in the single-digit millions. I'd say "super rich" starts around a 9 figure net worth (hundreds of millions). That's more like the 0.01%.