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Task Rabbit is pretty good and well known, and now there's Magic which sits on top of it. There's a lot more but they're smaller.



To me, Magic seems like a ChaCha that takes your credit card number and makes a few calls. That's fine, but it seems that places like Task Rabbit and Amazon Home are attempting to guarantee some level of satisfaction and results.

I've seen a couple other startups like Magic too. It's basically paying people to google for you. That might disrupt the personal assistant space but probably not the market for home services.


I always thought TaskRabbit was for unskilled jobs. More assembling IKEA desks than plumbing and electrics.




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