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Fancy Hands
Company blog · fancyhands.com/blog · on HN as tedrodenprogrammingstartupsweb
Fancy Hands is the company blog at fancyhands.com, writing about programming, startups and web. Since 2010, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Fancy Hands”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Fancy Hands as a service where you text a task to a human assistant for scraping, errands, calls and similar jobs. The comments discuss the service and its pricing, not any writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Fancy Hands8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2014-07-28
- Personal Assistants in the Cloud4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2010-04-06
- Fancy Hands – API for on-demand personal assistants2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-07-26
What Hacker News says?
Maybe thinking of AirPaper? Not taking new customers at this time. Some co-workers have raved about https://www.fancyhands.com/ for this kind of stuff, not sure if that's any different from Magic, though.
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on “Magic+”Submitted How we deal with billing provider downtime: redundancy as a story · 8 points
HN discussionFancy Hands | https://www.fancyhands.com | New York City - Full Time (onsite) Fancy Hands is a personal assistant service. We've had a lot of good press, we're growing and we need some help. We're looking to hire a python programmer to work on our back end. The ideal candidate would become our head of engineering. Specific details: https://www.fancyhands.com/jobs/python-app-dev We're also hiring front end developers…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)”Submitted Personal Assistants in the Cloud as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI'm currently trying out FancyHands https://www.fancyhands.com/ A task is 20 minutes, if it takes longer they ask you to use more than one credit on a single task. And there was one task so far that took so long I ended up doing it myself (they refunded my credit for that one). But overall it has been decent. I haven't tried others yet. I picked them because their minimum fee is reasonable. As it is I have trouble u…
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on “Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?”Submitted Fancy Hands as a story · 4 points
HN discussionLove this idea. I build my entire business around it: http://www.fancyhands.com
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on “Delegate or die: the self-employed trap”Submitted Fancy Hands – API for on-demand personal assistants as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThey can't do anything that requires your credit card: http://www.fancyhands.com/not/good/for
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on “How I automated the boring parts of life”Submitted Show HN: Our iphone app landing page has playable demo in HTML/CSS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFrom their website: "Fancy Hands can purchase things for you. Yep, if you ask us to buy toner cartridges, lunch, or tickets, we can handle it. First off, security is our number one priority with this feature and it's totally baked in from the start. At no point, does your assistant, or anybody else at Fancy Hands have access to your credit card number. Not bad, right? You don't have to worry about a rogue assistant…
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on “How I automated the boring parts of life”Submitted Apparently I'm not wasting my time for Valen-time as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNew York City - Full Time (onsite) Fancy Hands is a personal assistant service. We've had a lot of good press, we're growing and we need some help. Specific details: http://www.fancyhands.com/jobs We're looking for: - Python developers (we're on App Engine, but if you know python enough, it's no trouble) - Front End Programmers - Designers Fancy Hands is a small, profitable company trying to change the way people wo…
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on “Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (December 2011)”Fancy Hands. We're hiring Python Devs in NYC, Marketing folks, and QA/Support/Community Managers. All positions are full time and on site in NYC. Some good positions for folks who aren't on HN too, so please forward along to friends. http://www.fancyhands.com/jobs
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on “Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (October 2011)”I've used Fancy Hands ( https://www.fancyhands.com/ ) before and had good results with it, though it's probably not really price-competitive with MT; I paid about $15 for a quite large amount of scraping work that would've been annoying to write software to do.
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on “Ask HN: What do you wish someone would build?”Also, http://www.fancyhands.com/
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on “YC Facelift: EXEC”What's the difference between this and Fancy Hands( https://www.fancyhands.com/ )?
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on “Jarvis: Personal assistant via SMS”I'm a big fan of the startup FancyHands - https://www.fancyhands.com/ . The value proposition offered by the two services is similar: text a task, have an on-demand assistant find a solution for you. I do wish sometimes FH would return something faster: response for me range from 30m to a few hours. Though it sound like the with the current scaling pains at Magic, they aren't fully living up to their promised respon…
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on “Magic: The Story of an Accidentally Founded, Wildly Viral Startup”http://www.fancyhands.com/
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on “Ask HN: What API to the physical world do you wish existed?”https://www.fancyhands.com/
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on “How IFTTT, Mandrill, and Twilio is helping me find an apartment in SF”I'm reading your TOS right now. I'm not well versed with this type of jargon but what is this https://www.fancyhands.com ? Also, from the privacy policy, it seems like you'll be able to sell anonymous data. How "anonymous" would this be?
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on “Robinhood Desktop – Open Source”I feel like Fancy Hands [+] is very close to what you're looking for (disclaimer: no affiliation whatsoever). [+] https://www.fancyhands.com/
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on “Ask HN: What would you gladly pay $30/month for?”How is Scale different from using the Fancy Hands API? https://www.fancyhands.com/developer
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on “Scale (YC S16) is an API for human labor”I've used Fancy Hands for this to resolve something with the DMV: https://www.fancyhands.com/
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on “Vanishing phone customer support is driving us all insane”I really like the idea of gamification when it comes to business and love this approach. Rather than asking HN if you would do this, build a light weight version and test it - even if it sites at another domain - throw some paid at it and see if you can get 20 people to opt-in. As for rev model and long term - what other things could you incoporate/affiliate like http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/18/maneesh-seth…
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on “Ask HN: Get paid cash to get shit done?! TaskUp, the task list that does.”I sure hope this isn't the same type of hardware failure as the last one: http://thenextweb.com/apps/2012/09/05/recurly-suffers-hardwa... We've actually started using redundant billing providers to handle this case. I'd hoped we'd never have to actually need it again though: http://www.fancyhands.com/blog/redundant-billing-information...
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on “Recurly: All systems unavailable.”
