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A comment on Show HN: We built a crowd-powered virtual assistant.

Re:Show HN: We built a crowd-powered virtual assistant by timedoctor on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @04:33AM (#5291476)
I have had a full time VA for many years now and she does all sorts of things for me, including purchasing items using my credit cards, research in buying a new couch ... and on-going research and promotional work for our business.

I'm hesitant about the concept of having multiple different people working on your tasks. I think this is ok for standardised tasks where there is a process that is followed every time. It's difficult if you have varied tasks. How can you develop trust in the relationship with a VA?

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Re:Show HN: We built a crowd-powered virtual assistant by anandkulkarni on Wednesday February 27, 2013 @05:14AM (#5291588)
I think the key advantage here is that it's not different folks each time. We allocate the same pool of people to collaborate on your work whenever possible, so you can train them and develop a trusted relationship.

Our thinking is that this gives you many of the same advantages of a VA, while having a staff to draw from and higher availability.

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