I definitely need to start using FancyHands (got the email from the guy who created it recently about how he was killing an old company and putting all effort into FancyHands). Unfortunately some of my current tasks require calling my lawyer and doing some other things that really only I can do.
I do need a dentist though, and a handful of other things. Time to delegate!
When you figure out how to outsource going to the dentist, let us all know. That's one of those services that pg talks about that everybody needs but nobody wants to provide: great startup opportunity.
I'm not so sure it's a great startup opportunity. Getting your teeth cleaned is awfully hard to outsource, considering your teeth generally cannot be removed from your mouth and picked up or dropped off.
If you're just talking about, "we come to you", that doesn't seem like a real compelling service. Dentist visits are rare and important, so I'm willing to invest a little more, and it seems like dentistry in the back of a truck would be limited. Much of the equipment at a dentist's office can't exactly be thrown into a truck.
I assumed that it would be obvious that this was a joke, but somehow the notion of outsourcing going to the dentist was taken seriously. Something about my deadpan delivery apparently needs more fine tuning....
I'm surprised nobody has done this, actually. I live in Alaska and have a friend who is a dentist. He works exclusively in remote villages with a portable kit of equipment he flies around with on small chartered aircraft. It would definitely fit in a van.
I think the idea would be to charge a large amount to make it worth the dentists while to do so. So high population density high income areas. New York and maybe San Francisco?
We actually do have this where I work. I don't know the schedule, as I would never trust my mouth to someone I can't easily return to with problems, but it does actually exist.
The already have something like that in the Bay area. I was up near Genentech a few months back and they had a huge trailer setup in the parking lot. It was a portable dentist office setup for employees to use.
Dentists seem to have about 5 different rooms, pay dental hygienists to do 90% of the work, then stop in for about 5 minutes during the course of the 45 minutes you are there.
You should take it for granted that people mean the hygienist. "Dentist" is sort of a colloquialism referring to the whole operation. You're spot on though, as a single dentist operates at a higher level, that dentist would be underutilized overseeing just one chair.
We plan a lot of people's dentists appointments (mine included). Even though I need to go to the dentist, I've got some mental block to actually schedule it myself.
(PS: Sounds like you were an enjoysthin.gs user, thanks for that!)
I definitely need to start using FancyHands (got the email from the guy who created it recently about how he was killing an old company and putting all effort into FancyHands). Unfortunately some of my current tasks require calling my lawyer and doing some other things that really only I can do.
I do need a dentist though, and a handful of other things. Time to delegate!