Unlimited Virtual Assistant Tasks for $59 a Month - TimeSvr.com, a Review, Versus My Single Assistant
Published in 2008, this chronicle by @sidsavara details the mechanics of building a profitable, self-funded business without venture backing. Key verified financial milestone: $59 a Month.
Core Principles for Independent Builders:
Charging customers from day one acts as the ultimate filter for building software that solves genuine, high-urgency problems.
Keeping fixed overhead low and leveraging lean infrastructure allows founders to stay alive until market tailwinds kick in.
Small, repetitive improvements in customer retention and conversion rates yield massive returns over multi-year horizons.
Community Debate Themes:
The community focused on B2B customer acquisition channels, cold email vs SEO distribution, and balancing full-time employment with side-project development.
CATEGORY Bootstrapping & MRR →
HISTORICAL ERA Web 2.0 Genesis (2007–2013)
COMMUNITY SCORE ★ 81 points
TOTAL DISCUSSIONS 52 comments
Could 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.
I 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.
Just 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. :)
I 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.
Been 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.