Re:Magic: How to launch a product so no one will ever use it...
by jerf on Monday February 23, 2015 @10:49AM
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Your objection is probably more powerfully expressed as "waiting for a middleman to hire another middleman".
Of course, if you're intimately familiar with all the various services available to you in SF then this is not going to be a useful service. I mean that perfectly straight, not sarcastically; they basically tried to charge you $9 to "know Postmates existed". But there will be a lot of people who may still be willing to pay for not knowing all those various services. I'm personally skeptical but it's at least worth a try.
(I can't speak to the complexity of keeping track of the SF services, since I don't live there, but my impression is that it's challenging.)
Of course, if you're intimately familiar with all the various services available to you in SF then this is not going to be a useful service. I mean that perfectly straight, not sarcastically; they basically tried to charge you $9 to "know Postmates existed". But there will be a lot of people who may still be willing to pay for not knowing all those various services. I'm personally skeptical but it's at least worth a try.
(I can't speak to the complexity of keeping track of the SF services, since I don't live there, but my impression is that it's challenging.)