Magic... A Nice Lesson in Market Validation

[MJ DeMarco]

And perhaps a pivot? LOL.

His original startup was health related.

And then this thing took off.

http://mashable.com/2015/02/23/magic/

 

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[Ninjakid]

I just text them a question. They immediately text back with an automated text. Currently waiting for answer.

 

[Tiago]

Working there must be a nightmare and insanely fun

 

[Winning]

Woah, pretty cool market validation. Talk about a bare bones site.

Surprised there wasn't anything like that before... or maybe there was and this one just took off and went viral.

 

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[Charnell]

Their waiting list is over 25k now. Pretty cool what they have going on. I'm pretty curious to see how they have their phones setup/phone bill.

 

[smarty]

Kudos to them for being quick on doing phone calls and all that, but I see it as a huge liability.
Their "business model" also seems unclear to me.
If they could build an automatic delivery system, that would be something else.
Right now they're a few humans competing with the speed of phone messages.
Sounds great in the news but most probably they built a job-prison for themselves.

Is it illegal to ask them send $500?

 

[thidr0]

A big win would be in machine learning and automation. Or like Cha-Cha did it where you hire contractors to answer texts for 5c a piece. But I bet there's a lot of errors, people getting the wrong thing, bad customer service, etc...

 

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[RichyV]

Is it illegal to ask them send $500?

Haha this is going to be another issue, I reckon at least half of their texts will be completely ridiculous requests.

Great demonstration of quick, cheap market validation though, I hope it works out for him!

 

[Winning]

@MJ DeMarco and other fastlaners- this could be a great app idea.
Create a mobile app of what Magic does and have messaging/payment integrated. Make it seamless.

Open app, make request, get what you want.

 

[Ninjakid]

It's been like two days. I'm still on the waiting list.

 

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[AgainstAllOdds]

@MJ DeMarco and other fastlaners- this could be a great app idea.
Create a mobile app of what Magic does and have messaging/payment integrated. Make it seamless.

Open app, make request, get what you want.

I'm assuming Postmates will come out with a mobile app eventually. At that point, the competition going through Postmates will be dead.