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Unlimited Virtual Assistant Tasks for $59 a Month - TimeSvr.com, a Review, Versus My Single Assistant
- rezur 18y agoflow charts for the win!
- sidsavara 18y agoThanks. I worked really hard on those. It was a long, 2500 word block of text before I put them in.
- steveplace 18y agoShould've outsourced it.
- sidsavara 18y agoLOL Ok, I deserved that. Upvoted. [sigh] ;)
- murtiii 18y agocool!
- shawndrost 18y agoI actually signed up for timesvr earlier tonight after reading this. They claim $59 a month buys you unlimited tasks, which I cannot believe is profitable, but if they can make money off of my business, I wish them health and happiness.
- sidsavara 18y agoI'm pretty surprised by it as well. The 1 week free trial is awesome too - worst case, you have a team of assistants to do free work for you and you leave after 7 days. Although at their prices, that's really only a $15 free trial so it's not really going to hurt them any
- shawndrost 18y agoHahahaha! It's surprisingly exhilarating when someone else does your work for you.
- Mishi 18y agoVery professional work, awesome minds. Congratulations TimeSvr Team!
- alizaki 18y agoThanks for the article Sid. Appreciate your balanced review :) Zaki Mahomed CEO, TimeSvr.
- markbao 18y agoThis is why I love Hacker News.
- mrtron 18y agoYour FAQ is messed up, some links that go nowhere and some old info?
- mrtron 18y agoDownvoted because...? What does it cost? links to http://www.timesvr.com/signup.html http://www.timesvr.com/signup.html " Will unused tasks get carried on to the next month? No, the basic tasks expire at the end of the month. This is to help us price our service affordably by optimizing the Aide's time. You are however welcome to use all your tasks each month, and purchase more at a reasonable rate." This does not seem relevant to an unlimited service.
- sidsavara 18y agoUpvoted. I didn't see the FAQ page, I just used the service. I agree with you, it's not relevant so they should correct that - (or clarify why it's relevant. My hunch is you were downvoted because people have a knee jerk reaction to downvoting tangent negative comments =)
- alizaki 18y agothanks for the heads up. We've fixed it. Upvoted, of course.
- jodrellblank 18y agoAlso, the FAQ sliding is slightly out of alignment in Safari (the text is too far left and out of sight, and more text is visible to the right)
- colinplamondon 18y agoBeen interested in the whole VA/personal outsourcing thing since reading 4HWW - I know, how original - but was put off by the pricing. Definitely going to be giving this a shot in the near future.
- DanielBMarkham 18y agoI think I would still prefer a live, personal, one-on-one assistant. Sure there are a lot of downsides, but if you get a good person and you learn each other's personalities? I think the upside is a lot bigger than the downside.
- alizaki 18y agoCompletely agree. However, most people can not justify or afford a full time, or even part time, assistant. They're just looking for 30 - 45 minutes of help a day. That's where we step in :)
- ypahu33 18y agoVery interesting comparison. Thanks for sharing!
- Erwin 18y agoCould someone who successfully uses an assistant like that outline concrete tasks they delegate to them? Both private and job related (software engineering here). 9 out of 10 restaurants here do online booking and I don't need to book at the "Fat Duck", with its annoying phone reservation, that often.
- shawndrost 18y agoI asked for a bunch of research: some background data for my market, with sources, and a comparison of some vendors I'm interested in. If I was deep in code, this would be pretty useless.
- eru 18y agoI will try it out and report later.
- eru 18y agoPerhaps my assistants can up my article. ;)
- EGF 18y agoThanks this is actually very helpful to see the actual responses these folks give back to generic requests like the ones you asked.
- PetLvr 18y agointeresting.
- speek 18y agoThis is a brilliant concept! I wish I had thought of this.
- jasonlbaptiste 18y agoJust called them. GREAT customer service. I dont know if the business numbers can make it profitable when scaling out. If it is everything it seems, they will do well.
- quellhorst 18y agoI entered a few tasks in this system in the morning and they were already done by the time I was back from lunch.. Great service so far!
- 0x44 18y agoWhat kind of tasks?
- quellhorst 18y agoBasic research so far... Like personal finance software for the mac and options for keeping a google calendar and an iphone in sync. Tomorrow I'll see how well they do finding a place to rent.
- attack 18y ago...moments ago from my girlfriend: > you never checked on [important thing] did you? You are so irresponsible. Yeah, I need this badly.
- mmr8098 18y agoVery interesting review, Sid. I'd be interested to know where things stand in 4-6 weeks time and if you've made a choice to support either of the services exclusively.
- brandnewlow 18y agoJust signed up. I gave them a research task I already completed myself last weekend. I want to see how the results compare. Will probably post the results somewhere.
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- alizaki 18y agoJust a short note: We had to take down new signups due to overwhelming demand. Leave a contact and we'll get to you within a few days. Hopefully people here and elsewhere can appreciate that as opposed to doing a shoddy job. :)
- dkokelley 18y agoI saw that on the website and was really impressed. I'm confident that when I sign up I won't have to worry about you stretching your resources too thin to help me adequately, even when it's in your short term best interests.
- bb_mn 18y agoIt may be helpful to add an inline status alert (similar to those used by Twitter, Netflix, Basecamp, etc) in the actual dashboard when you're experiencing high demand. I signed up yesterday afternoon and submitted a couple of requests and wasn't sure what to expect for turnaround time. If you are not currently completing requests as quickly as you normally would, it would be reassuring to trial members (and existing members) to receive a notice that things may take slightly longer than normal but you are indeed working hard to catch up with demand.
- alizaki 18y agoGreat idea. We're working around the clock, even though a quarter of our staff was on Eid break when the site launched. They're all back, but yes, everything should be back to normal in terms of turnaround in the next 24 hours. We've also added more people.
- bb_mn 18y agoThat's good to hear. I hope this uptick in activity will be good for your overall business and the growth will be sustainable. The two responses I received this morning were top-notch, by the way. The information was very concise and saved me a bit of time already.
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- ALee 18y agoIf this is really all it's made up to be, I will be using this on a regular basis