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#132I 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.
I was just reading about a company started by 2 brothers that does exactly this. If I can remember the name, I'll post back. Maybe I saw it in Bloomberg? Anyone?
It might be BillFixers? (https://www.billfixers.com)
The Bloomberg article you may have read: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-10/billfixers...
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#133Earlier 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.
It's an SMS, not specific to iMessage.
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#134So 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.
not sure what the amex platinum version is like, but I wasn't that impressed with the visa infinite version.
I asked them to go through the craigslist of another city and find a certain car for sale, then return a list sorted by mileage and price. They couldn't do that for whatever reason and just offered to give me the KBB value.
Took me 5+ minutes to navigate their phone menu, enter my card number and get to the service.
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#135A 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 never heard of this before but it sounds it scales better to big and small jobs, and is more efficient use of available manpower.
Say you have a huge job, or many small jobs, that one personal assistant couldn't do at once alone. Or if you don't have enough jobs at all times of the day to keep your personal assistant busy. etc..
Its kindof analogous to renting time on a server farm vs owning a pc.
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#136I 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.
But is it worth $1000?
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#137A 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…
Sounds like this is the epitome of "you get what you pay for."
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#138"I need the following hash reversed: abcd...."
From the F.A.Q:
Q: What kinds of things can I use Magic+ for?
Anything you want. As long as it’s not illegal. Seriously.
"I need you guys to unscramble this omelette by 5pm..."
Kidding, and violating laws of nature aside, am rooting for the Magic+ team. Good luck!
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#139$100 an hour? Fuck that. I'm currently living abroad and don't speak the language very well. So I hired a virtual assistant who speaks the language and English. He charges $7.50 USD an hour. I only pay him for time it takes to complete my tasks. I rarely even pay $100 for the whole month.
Where did you hire him/her? I use fancy hands but would love to have a dedicated person
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