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The title reminded me of a startup called Magic, that promised things like that for a fee through a SMS or something like that. I can't recall more details...
by 101008 3y ago
The title reminded me of a startup called Magic, that promised things like that for a fee through a SMS or something like that. I can't recall more details...
- strgcmc 3y agoThis is a wild time capsule of an article to reread now... Whatever happened to Facebook "M"? And why did anyone ever think this would survive as a business model? https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/05/make-magics-assistants-do-almost-anything-with-100hour-and-a-text-message/ https://techcrunch.com/2016/01/05/make-magics-assistants-do-...
- Mistletoe 3y agoInterest rates were low, near zero for seven years by 2016. It seemed like anything was possible because the funny money just kept coming in from investors with nowhere else to put it. The ideas didn’t have to make sense and they didn’t have to be profitable, it was the last days of Babylon and it seemed if you just reached out with an SMS you could get the Backstreet Boys at your birthday party.
- modeless 3y agoSeems like "M" was just about 8 years too early, I bet their chats would be an amazing dataset for training LLM agents right about now.
- gkoberger 3y agoIt was Magic, they did YC W15! They still exist; they've just pivoted a bit into virtual assistants. They mostly were for normal stuff early on, although Justin Kahn (who invested in them) used to do some weird stuff using Magic: https://justinkan.com/feed/fun-with-magic https://justinkan.com/feed/fun-with-magic They're still around: https://getmagic.com/ https://getmagic.com/
- DANmode 3y agoGreat post. Thanks.