{ Friday, March 27, 2009 }
We've started sending out invitations to friends and people who signed up on Hunch. We're going to be launching the full public site in the coming months, but for now -- invitations!
What is Hunch?
Look. Decision-making is difficult, and decisions have to be made constantly. What should I be for Halloween? Do I need a Porsche? Does my hipster facial hair make me look stupid? Is Phoenix a good place to retire? Whom should I vote for? What toe ring should I buy?
It's dark and lonely work. Coin-flipping, I Ching consultation, closing your eyes and jumping, postponing the inevitable, Rock-Paper-Scissors, and asking your sister are all time-honored means of coming to a decision -- and yet we think there's room for one more: Hunch.
Hunch is a decision-making site, customized for you. Which means Hunch gets to know you, then asks you 10 questions about a topic (usually fewer!), and provides a result -- a Hunch, if you will. It gives you results it wouldn't give other people.
Decision Trees
Take a question often asked by tech-clueless family and friends: Should I switch to a Mac? If you ask someone who knows a lot about computers she'll start by asking you additional questions, like "What do you plan to use the computer for?" or "How much money are you willing to spend?". Then she'll give you an informed suggestion.
If you don't have an expert handy you can try posting the question on a Q&A site, but you'll often end up with arguments -- even flamewars! -- about the merits of PCs vs Macs. Or you can read lots of reviews and informational sites about Macs and PC - effectively become an expert yourself - but who has the time? Those toe rings are not going to buy themselves.
On Hunch, people can create a Topic (as we call it) that acts like a human expert, getting to a decision by asking relevant follow up questions and weighing trade offs. We think that it can ultimately save people lots of strenuous cognitive labor: not everyone who buys a computer needs to become a computer expert. Clay Shirky, I've got more cognitive surplus for you!
Enough about me, let's talk about you
In addition to helping you climb the decision tree, Hunch asks you a bunch of questions about yourself to find out more about what you're like and what you like. Hunch creates a kind of "taste profile" of you and people like you, which combine with topic-specific questions to deliver a hunch just for you. This is still very nascent -- we've had fewer than 200 people using the site so far -- but the more people use it, the better it will get.
You Gee See
You can create topics -- which are the "Super Questions" -- edit topics, add questions, edit questions, add results, edit results -- the bulk of the decision asking apparatus is user-changeable. As such Hunch looks a lot like Wikipedia circa 2001 -- mostly potential. Hunch staff, their friends, and other people whose arms we've twisted have contributed the 500 seed topics you see there today.
Contributor site for now, full site later
Hunch is currently a "contributor" or "power user" version of the site. It's not really ready for general use, as it needs a lot of people using it to get better. Right now it's like visiting Wikipedia in 2001. Later, the logged out, bunny hill version will be simple-- ask questions, get results. We'll get to know the user in the simplest possible way, then help them make decisions -- just click and click and click.
Bold! Different!
We're not biting ankles. We're not tagging along. Boldly striking out in new directions, the Brilliant and Noble Heroes of Hunch. Hunch is a new, odd, risky thing. One of the reasons I love working on this is because I anticipate users will surprise us by doing things with the software that we don't expect. When we started Flickr it was hard to classify -- was it a social network? a platform? a hosting service? blog software? It turned out to be a lot of things we're still trying to get our heads around.
Blushing crimson
The site you're seeing is super early stage, though we've eschewed the "beta" figleaf. We tried to get as many things right as we could, but we probably got a lot of things wrong. In fact, we're sure of it. Let us know what we can fix, what's dumb, baffling and terrible, glaringly obvious things we totally missed. Taste profiles and similarity to other users won't work really well until there are many more users. Those features will be iffy for a while. We know the topic-adding wizard needs work. There are only 500 topics, and they need grooming like your hipster stache needs grooming. A friend said if you launch something you're not at all embarrassed by, then you've waited too long. We're blushing, but we'll keep iterating til it's great.
Follow the money
The business of Hunch will be referral fees from external sites for the subset of topics that have to do with products and services. Monetization is not really going on now, though we do have some affiliate links to Amazon and others. We're not marketing things to people that they don't want, or hoarding and selling people's data, and of course the presence of a link has no effect on Hunch decision results.
Developers Developers Developers Developers*
There is, of course, an API, which will launch with the full site, so you can, say, write a program that figures out how special you are, or a Facebook Nemesis finder. Maybe someday our data can help people solve the "Napoleon Dynamite" problem ).
It's fun. Thanks for checking it out. Hunch time!
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* Did you know "Developers Developers Developers Developers" is an example of an epizeuxis? (My parents paid good money for a college education largely in poetics; I need to use it whenever I can.)
LINK | 12:35 PM | TB
WOO! Congrats, all, on the launch.
Marc Hedlund | March 27, 2009 1:10 PMCongrats, this sounds like such an innovative project. I can't wait to get it (wink, wink).
BTW, we met personally back when we were both Yahoos.
Good luck and hope you have lots of fun with it!
Jorge Escobar | March 27, 2009 1:13 PMcongrats!
looking forward to playing :-) er I mean trying it out and helping it evolve!
Congrats on the launch! I'm psyched to try it out.
Susan Wu | March 27, 2009 1:21 PMcongrats! Great to hear you're working on the next coolest thing on the web evah! ;)
marc | March 27, 2009 1:22 PMhuzzah! looking forward to trying it out!
lia | March 27, 2009 1:30 PMCongrats on the launch! I spent a lot of time researching the commercial decision making process at some previous jobs with Yahoo! Shopping, eBay, and other retail sites. Hunch sounds like it addresses some key needs in a logical, scalable way, combining human knowledge and machine learning. I signed up for the (non)beta months ago not knowing what it was. Psyched to take it for a spin when my invite comes through.
Good luck!
Joe Lazarus | March 27, 2009 1:39 PMYay! Now can I come play?
Carrie (Westlake) Cronkey | March 27, 2009 2:07 PMmazal tov! More context on the web...more gray area...yay!
heather gold | March 27, 2009 2:14 PMVery interesting and cool. Look forward to "local Hunches"
Dan Miller | March 27, 2009 2:50 PMSo THAT'S what Hunch is all about, eh, Caterina and Chris? Can't wait to play in your pool folks. Cheers.
Greg Battle | March 27, 2009 2:51 PMYAY!!!
Pick me, Pick me!
j david | March 27, 2009 2:51 PMShould I sign up for an invitation to Hunch?
> Yes!
Sam Pullara | March 27, 2009 3:06 PMVery interesting. I'll be looking forward to playing with it and seeing how much of the (considerable) progress in social science decision-making you've been able to squeeze into it.
And congratulations!
Antony Van Couvering | March 27, 2009 3:15 PMCongrats Caterina. Hunch sounds very interesting and the potential to be one of those addictive sites. I'll keep an eye out for Hunch buzz. Thanks for sharing. @robblewis
Robb Lewis | March 27, 2009 3:19 PMGreat work! More conversations on the web...rather than posting "what I'm doing now"...make for much more interesting interactions.
As a long time Flickr user I look forward to trying this out!
Duncan | March 27, 2009 3:34 PMLooks interesting. It's unclear to me why I received an invite when I'm pretty sure I've never heard of Hunch before... Oh well, congrats on the launch.
Sean | March 27, 2009 3:40 PMThis sounds like an incredibly interesting concept. Good luck with it! I look forward to the finished product. :-)
Drew | March 27, 2009 3:47 PMSorry, but this sounds like a dumb idea.
Its a novelty and similar to the magic 8 ball, will end up not being used and in the trash.
Based on what you've posted here, I can see where the education community will be very interested in Hunch. In many ways, Hunch could be used as an informal learning/assessment tool. Many educators saw great potential in Yahoo! Answers and Wikipedia, but both of those properties became too wild and untamed for use in the classroom. From the looks of it, Hunch could very well fill that void.
Very exciting! Best wishes to you and the team on a successful launch.
Derek | March 27, 2009 4:21 PMOooer.. I signed up to stay in the loop about this ages ago but haven't heard anything! Sounds exciting. Tempted to sign up on the site again.. just in case.
Neil Bruder | March 27, 2009 4:40 PMCongratulations! Look forward to poking around and submitting a few topics of my own. Hopefully the API lends itself to a nice mobile app!
Ian Kennedy | March 27, 2009 4:43 PMWonderful to hear, Caterina! We chatted briefly when Katie introduced us a year or so ago. It's great that someone as accomplished and innovative such as yourself has joined the social search revolution.
If you have room for an extra invite code, I'd welcome the opportunity to try it out! All the best.
Michael | March 27, 2009 5:11 PMI'm testing it now, and I like it, I have some invites too.
Andre | March 27, 2009 5:35 PMSounds like a fancy-pants reimplementation of the 20 Questions website. I could see this being the next "big dumb-ass on the internet" crutch after Yahoo! Answers. Make sure to put some legal disclaimer on there, lest you get sued for accidentally recommending that someone get a Sarah Palin tattoo.
this looks really inventive and amazing. more so even than i expected it would.
it's interesting to remember your earlier blog posts in light of this.
like the pancake people post, which immediately lept to mind upon reading this. does the nature of a service like hunch make people more or less pancake like? does hunch add to or remove from one's "inner repertory of dense cultural inheritance"? is this good or bad? can pancake-ization be avoided?
i like that the site raises questions like that, and i'm glad that you've already been considering them.
good luck.
striatic | March 27, 2009 5:50 PMMost excellent. Can't wait!
joff | March 27, 2009 6:32 PMGot you from GOD on Twitter so you must have divine inspiration
congrat on the new project... sounds very interesting.
kazi | March 27, 2009 7:05 PMCongratulations! I'm very, very interested in helping people live the life they want to, and find the things they'll be passionate about. This certainly addresses some of that, and I'm excited to get a test drive. Best of luck!
Kevin Elliott | March 27, 2009 7:29 PMcan't wait to try this, have been involved in decision tree/evaluation tool development for years and looking forward to seeing what you guys have come up with, it's a fascinating area.
jennifer | March 27, 2009 9:00 PMHow could they leave out "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morow" (Macbeth) from the epizeuxis page?
Zachery Bir | March 27, 2009 10:50 PMYou had me at 'Boldly striking out in new directions, the Brilliant and Noble Heroes of Hunch....'
(Actually, way before. )
Have gotten a little taste of hunch, and -- folks -- I can tell you: it's already superb.
And only going get better. Go hunch!
victoria | March 27, 2009 10:52 PMSounds very impressive. If you want some of Hunch's gene pool the other side of the Atlantic, i'd raise my hand straight away :-)
Ian W.
Ian Waring | March 28, 2009 2:12 AMwish you best of luck for ur new venture. hope it does wonders for all of us.
Design freak | March 28, 2009 3:06 AMHope to see the real hunch soon.
rates | March 28, 2009 9:09 AMPut epionions out of business.
Make CNET gear guides irrelevant.
Ease up on the hipster verbiage.
Be relevant.
I've played with the site for about an hour this morning and I really like the concept and execution. Well done!
Noel Hurtley | March 28, 2009 11:16 AMawesome! just awesome.
kim | March 28, 2009 11:35 AMawesome! just awesome.
kim | March 28, 2009 11:35 AMhmmm. I have a hunch this is going to be a hit. =) Sorry, couldn't resist! Seriously though, it's a fascinating idea. I am a "T" in Myers Briggs, so I tend toward logic when needing to make a decision. With that said, a second opinion is always welcome, especially from an unbiased source.
If you need a "T" to help w/the test drive, let me know!
Congrats and good luck w/your new venture.
as someone who spends every single day helping people make difficult decisions that will affect their short and long terms goals, i think this tool has a lot of relevance and will prove useful for people willing to give it a try. people starve for some insights and nudges in their decision making process and leveraging the masses to evaluate options is a great way to help them arrive at a decision they can feel comfortable with.
dshan | March 28, 2009 12:03 PMThis concept looks awesome! I signed up for an invite the other day and it said you would send one out, but I haven't received it yet. Alas.
nickd | March 28, 2009 1:53 PMsounds like the black decisions eight ball on steroids :)
BTW - what happens to all my data I enter ?
| March 28, 2009 2:56 PMoh i get it, this helps pancake people make decisions they have difficulty making by virtue of their pancakeiness!
striatic | March 28, 2009 3:18 PMFrom somebody who has no use for twitter and isn't very interested in facebook, this sounds very interesting to me and I look forward to taking a look at it.
Phil Staudt | March 28, 2009 4:54 PMThanks Caterina, this application looks great!
I really LOVE the concept - what a winner of an idea!! :)
Glad to be here on the ground floor!
Cheers and Good Luck!!
@susanbeebe
this is a great idea, in arabic -> congrat= Mabrouk :) can i get an invite?
ArabCrunch | March 29, 2009 10:16 AMCongrats - looking forward to trying this out!
Eric | March 29, 2009 10:26 AMBrilliant. I would love to get an invite, there seems to be no submit page on hunch.com. Are you accepting invite requests?
Vishal Sood | March 29, 2009 1:39 PMWow! I never thought that this kind of site would be exist in the cyberspace it a kinda a new neighbor in the neighborhood. furthermore I would like also to use this for future decision making, I would like to ask what kind of software or markup lanquage that you used in creating the design of this site because I am a aspiring web designer.
John Arthur Gurondiano | March 29, 2009 7:45 PMCongrats!
Chloe | March 29, 2009 8:13 PMmaven-like expertise nudges would be wonderful. What makes me cross my arms and wait is the already sore-lack of people learning to hear and heed their own intuition. Not sure what Obi Wan Kenobi would say...but I'm riveted, for sure.
Danielle LaPorte | March 29, 2009 8:59 PMThanks for the invite! Congrats!
Love the concept, used it for a few minutes and am now obsessed. I look forward to the mobile edition. Being an all 'gut' person, I think this site (well, the process of using it at least) is fascinating. Gut-utility computing. If only there was a mode for ADD folks with much speedier thought-refresh rates, I'd be hooked.
Samuel | March 29, 2009 9:14 PMthanks for the ref. to the Napoleon Dynamite problem. I'd love to solve that problem, but I think they're going about it in all the wrong way. I have a bit of experience in psychology and statistics, and I'll try to be brief.
First, most social scientists don't use 5-point scales to determine outcomes - too much noise, not enough specificity. The MMPI is T/F, for instance; Netflix or Amazon or any sales site would have more than enough info if they had a 3-point scale - no, OK, yes.
The next point is about both salesmanship and correlating outliers. If half the people who like Sleepless in Seattle like Napoleon Dynamite (ND), and half don't, why not simply present to the customer (instead of stating "people who like X also chose Z") a choice: We thought you'd like ND (and not a lot of other crap), which is an odd story about a blah blah blah. You then have two more points to correlate info - if they decide to find out more, and if they rent/buy it on that additional info.
You can go deep into statistical modeling, but I imagine you'll only find the safest choices forever. The focus should be about introducing randomness/excitement into the mix, not about finding the best fit.
John Manskybook | March 29, 2009 10:37 PMOOOOh. Congrats and...
I wanna try. Go girl power!
Hep Jamieson | March 30, 2009 7:38 AMOoooh, this is gonna be sweet. Great concept...I look forward to helping you build this thing.
Greg | March 30, 2009 10:18 AMThe initial questions were a hoot. Most entertaining survey I think I've ever taken. There's something intuitively right about this idea. I think.
Cliff Figallo | March 30, 2009 11:03 AMCongrats! It looks like a lot of fun! Can't wait to give it a try! *hint*
Jamie Lin | March 30, 2009 1:05 PMI'm very intrigued by this and can't wait to get started and see where it goes.
I expect to have fun, learn a few things and perhaps have it be useful to me. :)
Great idea and thanks for the invite!
Diane | March 30, 2009 1:09 PMGreat concept. Really excited about it and want to try it out.
Sujay | March 30, 2009 1:15 PMI was never a big Flickr user - no photos taken - but you've got such a great ability to design a community around a web site's big central idea. It's so rarely seen, and Hunch is so tightly revolving around those big things. I love love love it.
Can I say that the way you make web sites is an inspiration? Because I find I'm learning things about design just by going into this site and seeing what it's going and WHY it does that.
Rory Marinich | March 30, 2009 1:32 PMCongratulations Caterina !
It is great to see something new and original.
Best wishes.
Boanerges Aleman-Meza | March 30, 2009 3:19 PMI was invited and it is a great concept though the questions are way too US centric. Guys you have to accept that the world is a bigger place than US and Canada. It kinda reminds me web developers over here in Greece who still think browser wars have been settled for good with the death of Netscape. Hey, wake up!
Chris | March 30, 2009 3:24 PMThis could be the start of something good..
Great Idea, the more you think about the all the areas this could encompass it becomes more and more interesting.
I am mostly excited about depositing my ideas into this experiment. I assume privacy matters have been addressed. Common license thinking should prevail, ownership of thought is a dying theory. A wiki for decisions.
A resource for all.
Good Luck to all. Planet wide no borders.
I'm onboard now. Let's rock the wizzorld.
Torley | March 30, 2009 4:14 PMFor those of us who delight in visions of a better world I hope this will be a new and shiny peek into that future. Thank you for using your gifts and offering this up...allison addicott
allison addicott | March 30, 2009 9:15 PMCongratulation! Wishing you the best and a lot of fun running it all up.
Incoclu | March 31, 2009 7:54 AMThanks for the invite!
Very interesting model.
Please have someone contact me regarding SuperQuestions test.
Congrats & good luck.
@AAinslie
Alexander Ainslie | March 31, 2009 8:52 AMreally impressive
mark McCormack | March 31, 2009 9:29 AMreally impressive
mark McCormack | March 31, 2009 9:29 AMThis looks like it's going to be a lot of fun. Congrats!
Karl Schmieder | March 31, 2009 10:01 AMCongrats with the launch! I really look forward to trying out your service.
John S. Kim | March 31, 2009 10:50 AMGreat idea! I'm thinking about some diagnosis issues such as MS or Parkinson's. We list a number of symptoms and then find the likely cause. Any thoughts on medical diagnosis?
John Whistler | March 31, 2009 11:49 AMCongrats! I have been a fan of yours since I started on Flickr over 5 years ago! In fact, I noticed my picture of the Caution sign on the question marked: "Do you consider one of these a particular moral problem of society today?" and feel complimented.
Good luck!
Bob Davidson | March 31, 2009 12:12 PMthis seems like a necessary and comprehensive movement forward in the online communication realm. Sort of weeds through those potentially annoying forums...
www.thewanderous.com
ashley | March 31, 2009 1:31 PMthis seems like a necessary and comprehensive movement forward in the online communication realm. Sort of weeds through those potentially annoying forums...
www.thewanderous.com
ashley | March 31, 2009 1:32 PMCongratulations on the launch and all the best for the next stages.
I will try it out.
Jose | March 31, 2009 2:23 PMHow very grande! I knew you'd be on to the next great thing. Just put in my request for an invite. Are you in NYC now?
Nicki Dugan | March 31, 2009 11:28 PMpushing up power user sleeves...
Alex | March 31, 2009 11:56 PMHunch is great -- signed up for the beta. The most interesting new service in the past year, and lots of potential (and looks great).
Ryan | April 1, 2009 2:09 AMHope this isn't an April Fools Day joke. Your name lends credence to this as well.
Nimish | April 1, 2009 9:23 AMThank you so much for including the comment about your API!
I have an idea that needs an engine like Hunch to work. Hunch is something I could never build myself, so this is exciting. I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on the API to see if it'll help my service.
Brad Lauster | April 1, 2009 9:40 AMI did not expect too much when I read about the platform on TC - the concept sounded boring and archaic. But I have tried it myself and now I�m smitten. I like the machine learning approach - the product design made the difference for me.
Caterina rocks!
Kudos to the team!
To what degree were you inspired by http://www.decide-now.com ? That's been around for years. :-)
Jason B | April 1, 2009 11:43 AMHey Cat! Just got my e-vite. Thanks! I like the concept. I can't believe someone's thought of yet another useful idea for a new site/comm. But I guess that's why you get paid the bux!
Congrats on the new venture, hope it surpasses your wildest expectations!
Oh & happy April Fool's Day! ;)
Excelent!
isasbread | April 2, 2009 7:29 AMThanks for the invite, looking forward to rolling with it.
Trucker | April 2, 2009 8:36 AMLooking forward to explore it, tks for the opportunity. What I like most about it is the personalised approach; the consumer as human being and centre of the decision making process!
Esther Binkhorst | April 2, 2009 11:01 AMCaterina,
Now that we have really stepped into the realm of decisions and our collective inability to make them, where does this lead us?
What are the philosophical dilemmas we must answer about such systems, where people ask a system rather than trust their conscience.
It sounds like a grand experiment. I wish you all the best luck.
Dylan Rosario
Finally! An approach that could mirror real life decision-making, with all its mystery & inspiration.
I've written for the financial services industry, trying (honestly) to help people make good decisions. But clearly many of us make financial choices (perhaps any big decision) while standing at a bewildering intersection of streets that could be named Iffy Advice, Reason, Fear & Barely Controlled Emotions.
We need all the help we can get -- so I'm looking forward to this journey.
Dennis Thread | April 3, 2009 8:21 AMThank for the invite. BTW, it seems like a very original idea.
Money Ideas | April 3, 2009 8:45 AM
It is possible to build operational system for teaching and
interrelation easings between human and artificial intelligence.
1. Standardization of inquiries and results of search in the form of the binary
tensors.
1.1. Standard tensors inquiries-conformity can be integrated in modern educational
and search systems.
The metrics and dimension tensors inquiries and tensors conformity
should to be defined by means of popular workings out.
The chosen metrics and dimension tensors should provide enough the full
description of logic, time and emotional sequences and interrelations tensors
(elements of tensors).
1.2. Elements binary tensor, equal 1, should correspond to the opened descriptors,
(for example, of linguistic consortium SPARKLE).
Lists standard descriptors can be filled up with the help popular workings out.
1.3. Tensors of inquiries should be formed by operational system in the dialogue
mode off-line. Then in the course of search tensors inquiries can be specified
on-line.
1.4. Tensors of conformity should be formed at creation or the description of any
information units in a dialogue mode off-line.
Information units can be:
- Any facts
- Articles or fragments of articles
- News
- Questions
- Tensors of conformity or inquiries
- Any files
- Separate thoughts or theories
- Problem situations
- Internal contradictions or emotions.
Tensors conformity can describe possible and former changes and
interrelations of tensors conformity and information units.
Generated tensors conformity can be specified in a mode on-line also are
placed in a server database (or distributed database).
The note: tensors conformity can differ depending on individualities of people,
external conditions and current inwardness.
Results of search on tensor inquiry, accordingly, also can change.
1.5. Results of search on tensor inquiry can be:
- tensors of conformity, which product of multiplications on tensor of inquiry as
much as possible on some norm
- corresponding to tensors conformity of unit of the information.
At will of users tensors inquiries can become tensors conformity.
At will of users results of search on tensor inquiry can to be presented in
the form of multidimensional histograms tensors elements.
1.6. All generated by users tensors at will can be are united in a binary image.
P.S.1. Formation of information tensors, possibly, occurs already very much for
a long time. However access to these tensors and to units of the information
corresponding to them it is limited.
2. Creation virtualized training operational system (VTOS).
2.1. VTOS should be created volunteers from community Open Source for
creation both interactions of tensors and binary images. VTOS should be
exclusively the humanitarian project.
2.2. Overall objective VTOS - educational.
VTOS it is intended for rendering assistance to people in the decision
of the difficult personal and public problems.
VTOS should promote improvement of human qualities.
2.3. VTOS should provide safety binary tensors and images.
2.4. VTOS should contain the "lie detectors" processing tensors of conformity,
and also other sources of the information.
2.5. VTOS should contain analyzers and synthesizers for formation of tensors
conformity from various information sources.
2.6. VTOS should provide non-material stimulus for own support
and developments.
P.S.2. All necessary conditions for creation VTOS, as Open Source are now
created with the public licence.
Caterina, you are anything but FAKE. :-)
Finally a genuine attempt at trying to help people with their lives - instead of filling zillions of megabytes with useless twittering and facebooking of "Mummy, I just made a big poop, ain't I great?"
Fact is we all spend an aweful lot of time in front of our one-eyed medusa machines. We all will be better off if we start using that time for REAL life.
Brava, Caterina!
Luzifer | April 5, 2009 11:20 AMInteresting. Someone posted about your site over at TechSoup.org and I just got an invite, Thank you!
But it seems this is mostly like an expert system where it asks a series of questions and concludes something based on the answers. But if you can bring this to main stream, that's great. It will be cool if I can easily create some things that duplicate what I do for people all the time. "Which domain name should I buy?", "Is SEO something I should get for my web site?", "Why do scammers want my bank account information?", etc.
Ok, I'm going to create my account now...! :-)
Thanks!
Chris Nielsen | April 6, 2009 8:22 AM@luzifer hehehheh
@caterina
sounds like hubdub i think it is called
i contacted them a few weeks ago
and asked them if they could granularise their remit
so that i could put up a question that was locally verifiable
eg
will team Plus win the armagetron ladle?
but they are working at national level...
seems to me
a combination of both approaches is what we need
hubdub-hunch
and if you guys don't get it together
someone else will...
just a... hunch i guess
be well!
happyseaurchin | April 6, 2009 8:46 AMWow! What a great concept. Thanks very much for the invite. I look forward to a decisive future with Hunch. Best wishes, Shanker
Shanker trivedi | April 6, 2009 9:34 AMDo the "super questions" include asking for general location ( zip code )?
One's physical environment has such influence, I would assume it is taken into consideration.
Todd | April 7, 2009 7:18 AMgood stuff. I can see how you will learn a great deal about how people make decisions. Marry this to some demographics and 'where the person hangs out' and you might have yourself a business. go to it.
Deborah | April 15, 2009 11:42 AMcongratulations on the launch! i am very intrigued and can envision the potential growth. local hunch parties, localization and international expansion, and a cult-like "ASW" following. looking forward to hearing/seeing more...
Scott Spagnola | April 23, 2009 12:07 PMwhen will you start recruiting! :)
usman41 | April 24, 2009 4:57 AMwow!
baskaran | April 27, 2009 2:57 AMHey I'm loving hunch. "Keep on rocking in the free world" as the kids say
benton | April 28, 2009 8:12 AMGreat idea, congrats! Pretty time consuming now, but I can imagine that after a billion entries are there, you will enter any question, such as "should I report sick tomorrow", and be asked only the two things that determine the decision that is right for you. You'll sell it to Google next year.
Francesco | May 12, 2009 10:26 AMGreat idea, congrats! Love the experience.
Are you planning a corporate license for internal use? such as sales guiding, call centers etc.
Shai Shamir | May 13, 2009 11:32 PMBravo!!
Hunch time has been lovely ~ I can't imagine how rich and valuable those social graph & behavioral data would be in a number of years, even more so than FB. Would it be possible to incorporate open portable standards on Hunch in the near future?
yuki chow | May 19, 2009 1:15 PMCongratulations and Best of Luck for the coming phase
carla nohra | May 20, 2009 12:47 AMI'm excited to start playing with this. I'm one of those people that scour the internet on my own trying to find answers... that's how I stumbled actoss Hunch in the first place! And if I can find a better - quicker way to get those answers I'm willing to contribute to help others too... it's a much more fun way of spending my time on the internet.
Great idea guys, I wish you success!
cheryl | May 24, 2009 8:06 PMHey Cat,
Hope all's well.
I saw this artwork and thought it'd look good in the Hunch office:
www.jamiewieck.com/decisionsdecisionsprint.htm
Alex | May 26, 2009 7:17 PMHello Catherina,
I'm a person of optimism & I strongly believe you've made a hit with this one. Even though I'm a new comer to this website, I see a great future for it.
Innovations or new ideas are what revives a family, community or nation to keep it from relapsing into mediocrity or obsolence. Therefore I will urge you to boost the website with programs that will answer futuristic questions in order to keep it alive.
Yinka D. Elebute | June 18, 2009 11:58 PMi saw your article on the tv in Australia great website, well done caterina
Personal Trainer | June 27, 2009 4:16 PM{ Post a comment }
This is an extremely interesting concept. As you said it is new, odd and risky but based on your description is sounds like it should be useful. It should help people in a variety of ways. I can't wait to follow its development.
Pat Coleman | March 27, 2009 1:10 PM