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#122So this is just Amex Plat/Centurion concierge for people who prefer to text than call?
I've used Visa Signature concierge a couple of times and have found it to be very 'meh'. The last time I called them they seemed to have limited the scope of what they'd do to making reservations and travel arrangements.
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#123It says it works from anywhere, but then only gives a number that works from within the US. How are you supposed to use this service while in another country and not having access to a US sim card?
If you are in the target group that is willing to pay $100/hour for a virtual assistant at the beck and call of an SMS, then the $0.20 or so for the SMS roaming charges seems like small change...
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#124A 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 De…
Wouldn't it be more price effective for you to hire a personal assistant; through one of your companies?
I actually have a personal assistant, but for many tasks, Magic+ is simply better (and completely responsive 24/7, which I would never demand of an employee).
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#125I haven't used the $100/hour Magic+, but I've used Magic several times. I ordered sushi when it was first announced and the HN comment about my experience got a lot of interest.
Once I used it to order fried chicken from a deli that isn't available via any delivery service. That was nice.
The coolest thing by far was using it to buy a gift. I follow an embroidery artist on Instagram, and noticed she was doing a pop-up shop in Chicago (I live in Seattle). I directly inquired about commissioning pieces or buying her existing pieces, but it just wasn't possible – this pop-up shop was the only way. I showed Magic a few of the pieces I liked best on Instagram, gave them a price limit (no idea even how much they were selling for), and described how there were only a few of these things available and they'd probably be gone fast. They sent someone there and managed to get one for me and mail it!
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm really sorry that your initial experience with Magic last year wasn't ideal. We have come a long way since those initial days. Believe it or not, we actually did not plan that original launch -- rather, we released the website and number to a few people and it went viral practically overnight. We set up a waitlist as quickly as we could, but there definitely were some people in the beginning who did not have a go…
I just noticed something strange in the screenshot. It seems to imply that Magic will work over iMessage. As far as I know, there is no publicly available API for iMessage so I'd be curious to know how this works.
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#127The examples are a little outlandish. Maybe some more realistic ones?
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#128I 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.
It will probably take those 10 hours being on old for comcast to pickup. You think i'm joking.
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
$400k household income puts someone in the US top 1%. I don't think that fits any common definition of super-rich in the US.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Maybe in that scenario, "time spent waiting", they don't charge? Seems like they wouldn't want to waste those cycles, but I see your point with regards to incentivisation.