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Re: Magic

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Post by nzp »

UVB-76 wrote: post #331
scrollaway wrote: post #310

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This isn't interesting because of pizzas. This is interesting because of the potential to centralize and offload all decisions of a certain type. It's like a pay-per-use secretary. What I do find.. "decadent"... is people like you, judging masses of other people on the basis of what they find interesting or useful. Especially when you can't see past the low hanging fruit and aren't able to grasp any potential a servi…

A service like this simply isn't economical for the overwhelming majority of people. If you perceive your time to be so valuable that you can't bear the five minutes it takes to order a pizza online or by phone, you probably should re-examine that valuation. Especially when five minutes ordering exactly what you want directly from your preferred supplier is replaced by a fifteen minute exchange with a stranger who ha…

My first thought was that if your time and effort really is so valuable that it economically makes sense to use a service like this one, then you probably can afford and should have a real concierge/personal assistant. It seems to me this hinges on an emotional (i.e. economically irrational) need of (upper?) middle class people to feel rich and too “important”. Which is actually not a bad business model at all, tapping into people's feelings. It's actually one of the best things to base a business on.

But I could be wrong. Maybe there's a sweet spot in the price-utility ratio where this makes sense for people who are not technically rich and busy maintaining the wealth. It's interesting.

Re: Magic

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Post by js2 »

exogen wrote: post #184
christianmann wrote: post #144

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What were the extra pieces?

Edamame, some sushi rice, and escolar sashimi which I've never tried before. (edit: some kinda soup as well)

Escolar, delicious in moderation - http://www.thekitchn.com/use-caution-when-eating-escola-6660...

Re: Magic

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Post by nzp »

cmikec wrote: post #10
gk1 wrote: post #7

Great idea. Can we find out how much it costs, or do we just have to trust that the quoted price for the task isn't too much above actual cost? Or does it not have any service fees? The site is really vague about pricing.

This is a great question. We are still trying to figure this out right now. Our vision is to be a service that handles everything - and that means everything from ordering food, to ordering clothes, to booking a one week's vacation in St. Thomas. The fees obvioulsy vary. Any ideas you have about doing this in a more straightforward way would be welcome. For now what we are doing is thinking about what would be reason…

My bold suggestion would be to not do what other posters are suggesting about making pricing clear and itemized. As I've said in another comment, I think this service mainly fulfills an emotional need, not a rational one (and that's not bad for a business at all), so make your customers feel luxurious. Bean counting isn't luxurious. Do exactly what you do now, just handle the request and state the price. Getting people to think about pricing by having pricing listed and itemized will just ruin the experience. Besides, people prone to bean counting will quickly figure out this isn't worth it. Don't be Amazon, don't race to the bottom. Just find a way to scale your fee estimation process to stay reasonable enough without bothering your customers with it.

Re: Magic

#406

Post by coderzach »

matznerd wrote: post #314
slaction wrote: post #230

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ProductHunt is just a useless hype machine for starts that don't hold any real value at all.

Not true, Product Hunt delivers quality traffic, with high-level people who are hungry for products and convert very well.

High quality SV echo chamber traffic.

Re: Magic

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Post by username223 »

matznerd wrote: post #314
slaction wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ProductHunt is just a useless hype machine for starts that don't hold any real value at all.

Not true, Product Hunt delivers quality traffic, with high-level people who are hungry for products and convert very well.

> Not true, Product Hunt delivers quality traffic, with high-level people who are hungry for products and convert very well.

Are you a human being talking about other human beings, or a "market opportunity" about-talking "quality traffic" that "converts very well?" I should write a "quality traffic" bot with "good conversions," then post it on Product Hunt.

Re: Magic

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Post by wycats »

thomasfoster96 wrote: post #376
MichaelGG wrote: post #339

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>If there was a standard by which browsers stored payment and delivery details, a little beefed up from what we have now, would that get us part way? Isn't that basically the idea of PayPal or Amazon Payments and similar things?

I'm pretty sure Google Chrome has an API hidden away for payment info. Google seems to market it towards ecommerce developers (that's how I found out about it), but I can't find my documentation on it. Plus it's not on track for any sort of standardisations.

Do you mean https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/input/form/us... ?

If so, it has since become standards track: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#dom-form-r...

Re: Magic

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Post by slapresta »

lurcio wrote: post #361
matznerd wrote: post #314

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Not true, Product Hunt delivers quality traffic, with high-level people who are hungry for products and convert very well.

I was under the impression a lot of people use it for idea generation/competitive intel & that (in marketing terms) PH is a (small) traffic/link hack... In other words I'd be interested to find anything on the quality of its traffic.

Hi!

We launched one of those landing-only email-catching product pitches on Product Hunt and Designer News. It went amazing. We never even topped #1, yet we got lots of useful feedback and more than five hundred emails of potential customers, some of them high-profile (think @google.com or @abc.com)

Re: Magic

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Post by stutsmansoft »

MichaelGG wrote: post #84
cmikec wrote: post #2

Hey everyone - this is insane. My friends and I created Magic a few days ago as a side project and it's completely blown up by accident since then. We're getting stormed with messages and orders. We thought we'd launch it ourselves later if it did well, and other people have been posting it on Product Hunt, Reddit, HN themselves... I'm here to answer any questions, although we've hardly slept!

So I used to use something like this with Amex's concierge service. Like getting a Wii on release day, or getting a gift somewhere. I stopped using them after this bad experience. I asked them to send about $100 of good chocolate as a gift, and they just sent a $10 bar, 10 times. Duh. Anyways, I felt a very good sensation looking over this. Probably because it's just such a PITA to do things like order pizza. Gotta t…

Whoa, I've never used my concierge benefit and didn't even think about it on hard to get items like console launches.

How did that go? Do they just find you a scalper and you pay the overcharge, or do they find you one at retail price on launch day?

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