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Re: Magic

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Post by cplease »

highCs wrote: post #319
everyone wrote: post #307

Does no one else consider the idea of this horribly decadent? They give as an example, ordering a delivery pizza for you, which is already a decadent activity and something you can accomplish with a single phone call anyway. Maybe for the rich high-flying silicon valley types, your time and brain space is so valuable that this service makes sense. But if that is the case maybe you should re-examine your lives.

It's automation. That extra cost you mention will soon become / is amortized by what one can do with the time and energy win, properly reallocated.

Actually, it's not automation, it's delegation. Take away the SMS and this system has existed since feudal times going back to antiquity.

Re: Magic

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Post by webXL »

bhaumik wrote: post #202
cmikec wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Yeah, honestly, after deciding to launch this we released a really minimal landing page which I saved here: http://getmagicnow.com/index-old.html - As you can see I made that in about 20 minutes, and was not expecting this. After someone posted it on Product Hunt I spent whatever time I could polishing it up. In general though, I agree, simple websites are much better. Thanks for the kind words.

Hm, well here's a startling difference between the HN and Product Hunt community. The PH comments: This website looks extremely untrustworthy, purely from a design standpoint. I feel a lot of potential users would be put off by this! Interesting idea. Terrible site design. Unclear if they're charging for this added convenience. http://www.producthunt.com/posts/magic

That commenter at PH could tell the original design took 20 minutes, and if you only have resources to allocate 20 minutes to a product page design, how good can the product be? I think there are more in this community would agree about the original design without completely writing off the product's potential.

Re: Magic

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Post by king_magic »

Procrastes wrote: post #237
api wrote: post #109

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But how can you disrupt without parallax? ... And thanks. I thought I was the only one who thought the video fad was dumb. Now it's just a toll booth for getting a product presented, and I never watch them. How about others? Do you find videos actually useful or are they just glitz?

I hardly ever watch product videos. I'm usually in locations where It would be rude and I don't want to put in earphones just to find out what's going on. But I'm a curmudgeon, and may be an outlier.

I will happily join you in outlier-land. I want to be able to read - and quickly grok - what a product is about. Needing to watch a video to understand a product is a marketing fail, IMO.

Re: Magic

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

Procrastes wrote: post #237
api wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But how can you disrupt without parallax? ... And thanks. I thought I was the only one who thought the video fad was dumb. Now it's just a toll booth for getting a product presented, and I never watch them. How about others? Do you find videos actually useful or are they just glitz?

I hardly ever watch product videos. I'm usually in locations where It would be rude and I don't want to put in earphones just to find out what's going on. But I'm a curmudgeon, and may be an outlier.

We should form a club! We can have meeting where we show videos that we all ignore, while we chat over drinks.

Re: Magic

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Post by Udik »

Animats wrote: post #289

If you've never read it, this is the time to read the Heinlein classic, "We Also Walk Dogs."[1] This is exactly the business he describes. [1] http://www.lightforcenetwork.com/sites/default/files/%5BHein...

From the short story:

"Miss Cormet reflected to herself that the prosperity of General Services and her own very substantial income was based largely on the stupidity, lack of resourcefulness, and laziness of persons like this silly parasite"

Re: Magic

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Post by janesvilleseo »

kmfrk wrote: post #305
exogen wrote: post #232

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did it manually, I'm afraid.

Get the app Tailor; it'll do it for you. :) https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tailor-automatic-screenshot/... Maybe the Magic people should promote a tool, since word-of-mouth promotion can be hard without.

Thank you. Every once in awhile I need stich some mobile screenshots together and this seems perfect.

Re: Magic

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Post by raldi »

iandanforth wrote: post #271
raldi wrote: post #231

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"We quote you one simple price that includes everything: The goods, the delivery, any expected gratuity, all service charges including our own, and any applicable taxes and fees. What you see is what you pay."

Can they use that verbatim? Because they should.

Sure, consider it a gift. Now go forth and change the world. (Or at least the world of laziness.)

Re: Magic

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Post by fastball »

CPLX wrote: post #349
exogen wrote: post #137

I just decided to try this out in Seattle. Here's how it went! http://brianbeck.com/images/magic.png (the minimum was from the sushi place, not Magic)

This is horrible compared to my daily experience using Seamless. Why would a person craving sushi want to exchange 8 text messages and then click on a web link and get sushi 2+ hours later?

They had to click a web link because it was their first time using the service so they had to add their credit card. How else are they supposed to charge you?

Re: Magic

#390

Post by amelius »

If Magic is going to be the one selecting the services, this may cost Google and others a great deal in ad revenue.

How would they respond to this? Their own meta-service?

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