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by selllikesybok 3043 days ago
Is 24 not a personal assistant? :) Yes, taskrabbit seems appropriate for discrete tasks (wait from 12PM to 3:27PM for my repair window)... but I'd insist on bonded people, not randos, even ones with lots of 5-star ratings, to be in my home.

Maybe something in a chatbot for text-based interfaces? Make it speak/listen with text->speech and voice recognition? Since most of the human interactions on the other side of bad customer service are scripted, should be possible to build counter-scripts.

But after all that I don't think I'd pay anything just for this on an ongoing basis. So who is the market? Impatient wealthy people? We're back to assistants!