Really tempted to make an account just to request some inane stuff.
Magic+
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#83I would love to see more comments that provided value to other readers. There is so much expertise and intelligence in this forum, but so many discussions contain only what is easiest: obvious cyncism. It's kind of fun banter once in a while, but gets old and isn't worth spending the time reading.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, they're targeting people who want on demand helicopters. I feel like $100/hr makes sense given that context.
These are people who buy an iPad Pro in the checkout line on a whim.
And suddenly decide to next-hour ship it to their mum (again according to examples)
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's exactly the comparison I wanted to make as well. I thought of the original Magic service as "a Visa Black Card concierge-service automated and scaled enough to target the middle class"; this just returns it to the parent concept.
I don't think the middle class has $3,750 to spend on a helicopter ride to the airport...
Presumably the people using Magic for that sort of thing were the upper-class "money left on the table" that's being picked up here. Most Magic requests, from what I take it, are more for the same lazy-person-making-100K things like to-your-door grocery delivery that other services provide.
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#87$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.
Or maybe you're not the target market?
This is like people getting mad at Heroku or Github when some commodity host costs a tenth the price. Thankfully you have a choice and no-one is forcing you to use it.
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#88I'd love to know how they manage to scale such high quality service. They say they use "top-tier executive assistants and concierges", but it's hard to scale high-quality employees.
How does it differ from other concierge services, such as the one connected to American Express cards? What have others typically done well and poorly, and how does Magic+ overcome the limitations?
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#89First, did anybody else miss that what's linked here is the "+" version, at $100/hr?
The original "pay per use" service is still offered at https://getmagicnow.com/
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#90Is this a parody?
No, Magic has already been discussed before[1]. It seems they are moving from a percentage pricing (Magic) to a per-time pricing (Magic+). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9087819
Ah, the copy ("Magician", somehow they're going to conjure up Tina Fey for $100?) made me think it was a joke.