Hello Product Hunt! I'm Myla, a Virtual Assistant

Hi everyone! My name is Myla and I’m a virtual assistant.

I didn’t start in this industry, I actually began in customer service, then shifted into content writing, and eventually found my way into being a virtual assistant for founders.

For most of my VA career, I never really had a specialty. I was that “jack of all trades” type who would jump into whatever task was needed: emails, admin work, documents, scheduling, research, basically anything to keep things moving.

Then something unexpected happened.

A founder I worked with asked me to take over their Reddit marketing. I had zero experience. I didn’t even know the difference between an announcement post and a discussion post back then. I was ready to say no, but they trusted me. So I learned as I went: observing posts, testing messages, replying to comments, tracking what worked and didn’t.

That experience taught me something important: Sometimes founders see potential in their assistants before we see it in ourselves.

Learning by doing has been the biggest unlock in my career so far. That project eventually became something I genuinely enjoy and now I consider it a skill I never expected to have.

Just sharing this in case someone else is in that same middle stage, feeling like you’re doing a bit of everything and not sure what you’re really “good at.” Sometimes the turning point comes from a random task someone hands to you, and suddenly you realize you can actually grow into it.