Show HN: I asked Magic+ to build me a Magic+ clone (getyourmagic.io)
With their promise of "Anything you want. Seriously." how long before we see that? :)
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#222Seeing this makes me feel ashamed to be a part of the tech industry. This is why people despise the 1%. Show some taste/humility/discretion. A "service" like this is so narrowly focused on the ultra rich, that it should be marketing in high end magazines/direct outreach.. not on hacker news.
I completely disagree. This service targets people who peg a higher value to their time than $100 / hour and/or are too busy to take on other tasks. This is valuable for anyone that runs their own business or who has an actual dollar amount pegged to their time (a large portion of HN readership), not just members of the 1%. E.g., cancelling a doctor's appointment takes 10 minutes. Even if you bill your time out at $5…
Someone who values their time at $100/hour, working 40 hours/week, is making over $200,000 a year. I'm not sure if that technically qualifies as the 1%, but I think it's close enough to the GP's point.
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#223So wait... did I miss the part about what happens if they fail to do what I ask? What happens then?
"Finish my dissertation. Thanks."
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#224Seeing this makes me feel ashamed to be a part of the tech industry. This is why people despise the 1%. Show some taste/humility/discretion. A "service" like this is so narrowly focused on the ultra rich, that it should be marketing in high end magazines/direct outreach.. not on hacker news.
"this is so narrowly focused on the ultra rich" So was Tesla initially. That didn't make it unworthy of tech news coverage. As this sort of technology matures and become more accessible to the general public, it has a reasonable chance of being the "next big thing". That makes its launch newsworthy to the people in the industry.
What's the technology here that needs to mature? Honest question, but it seems like just a high-end personal assistant on-demand that uses text messages to communicate. It's not obvious to me what the tech is.
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#225I'd love to try this, as there is an out-of-production bag that is probably out there but I could not find this holiday season. People aren't mentioning this here, but the real sticker shock is not $100 / hour but rather that to get that price you have to be ready to pay $1000 now or sign up for a $3000 a month subscription (that also begins now) The low-key information page doesn't really set you up for that level o…
I think it makes sense that they only want people who are serious about it. If they didn't have a high up-front entry cost, they'd inevitably end up with lots of pranksters 'trying out' the service with ludicrous/dumb requests ("make my wife love me again"; "buy twenty pizzas, then hurl them into the ocean at this exact point") and bogging things down.
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#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's an SMS, not specific to iMessage.
Then the messages would be green. I'm curious about this as well (unless they're just photoshopped). When I was experimenting with Twilio that was the only aspect that was a little disappointing. I wanted blue messages. :)
Pretty sure they're just photoshopped and they don't use iMessage in reality. The font/kerning/size/alignment looks off from here.
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#227This is like Tesla entering the market with a high end sports car, or Uber entering the market with only black cars. They're targeting a smaller niche of wealthy early adopters to tweak the service and revenue model and will eventually move downmarket to address a broader customer base (if they're successful with this initial niche). This is an ideal niche to start with because a) they have the money for it b) they'r…
The metaphor is faulty. Uber hasn't brought down the cost of limousine service, and it didn't make cars cheaper or more efficient to create UberX -- it just tapped into a larger market of drivers who were willing to do commodity work for less money. You don't pay people $100 an hour for commodity work. Unless you're so rich that price doesn't matter, I guess.
Perhaps I should have extended it a bit more--as someone else commented, they will likely drive the price point down as the tech improves and they're able to do things algorithmically which will reduce overhead. The Tesla strategy is probably a better fit here than Uber, though.
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
They claim to have fulfilled 100% of requests. Seems like a lie, though.
I find it hard to believe Amy Poehler or Tina Fey would meet with some random guy who has some service calling them up...
Except it's probably not some random guy, right? What if it was Elon Musk, or Bill Gates, or Christopher Nolan?
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#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
If so, they charge 50% of the annual savings. That's steeper than a couple of hours of Magic+.
Not if you have to buy a minimum of 10 hours AND with BillFixers, you're getting a DEFINITE savings of 100% of whatever you paid them.
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#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
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).
Can you give some specific examples of things that Magic+ does better than a local personal assistant, besides being available around the clock?