Show HN: Help Me Decide Please • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

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Post by masonhensley » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 2:56 AM UTC

joppy wrote: post #16

franciscop wrote: post #5

Tip: if you input something and press "enter", it will reset the form. You should attach the event listener to the form's onSubmit, and not to the button's onClick.

Is there some book of best web dev practices where stuff like this is written down?

Not that granular yet, but I’ve been capturing user story/ acceptance criteria level best practices. Currently at ~800 B2B focused modular “specs” that find the middle ground between devs and non technical team members.

My email in profile if you’d like to check it out.

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

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Post by tunesmith » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 3:03 AM UTC

Anyone remember letsimondecide.com? Early 2010's, it did this and was aiming to be acquired like hunch.com was apparently (I hadn't heard of hunch.com). I think it never happened and it eventually went inactive.

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

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Post by ddevault » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 3:07 AM UTC

I use an IRC bot - you just say ".choose A B C" and it prints out a random choice.

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

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Post by tekknolagi » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 3:11 AM UTC

I thought it would be a site where you ask a question and then before you submit you have to answer someone else's. Crowd choice.

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

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Post by DoofusOfDeath » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 3:16 AM UTC

scrollaway wrote: post #19

I absolutely thought I could enter a question and have the site's users decide for me like a strawpoll. I can't even decide what to put in the choices list. Man.

Perhaps it's an object lesson in existential philosophy?

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

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Post by mbil » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 3:38 AM UTC

This is cool. It looks like this is a program for creating and evaluating a decision matrix: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision_matrix. This got me thinking about an idea for a similar tool, but catered to a specific domain, one that can be populated with data to help make the decision -- e.g., where to live, where to go to dinner, what kind of car to buy, etc. A decision where the options have known important criteria and quantifiable values, e.g. a decision about where to live has criteria like cost of living, crime rate, walk score, etc. Essentially, it would be like criteria filters you commonly see on shopping websites except it would let you rank those filtering criteria as well.

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

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Post by barbs » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 4:06 AM UTC

scrollaway wrote: post #19

I absolutely thought I could enter a question and have the site's users decide for me like a strawpoll. I can't even decide what to put in the choices list. Man.

Legit was what I was thinking. I want to make this.

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

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Post by emmanueloga_ » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 4:12 AM UTC

I just stumbled upon a product that helps solve decision making problems while looking for info on the "Rete algorithm" [1].

On that note, it is pretty cool that you made a V1 and just released it. If it was me I would get lost in a bread first search of algorithms and prior art and whatnot :-p

1: https://www.sparklinglogic.com/smarts-decision-manager/

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

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Post by orangefarm » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 4:21 AM UTC

Cool prototype !

I've been pondering the idea if software can help us to make decisions in the way you have shown here for a while. If you (or anyone else) would like to have an exchange about it, my email is in my profile.

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

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Post by gorgoiler » Sat, Apr 25, 2020, 4:21 AM UTC

Whoa this is fantastic.

Another idea: it might be too touchy of a subject but a little tool that helps resolve conflict between two parties is something I’ve always wanted to see.

Just a simple tool to help move forward on a decision. Objectivity-as-a-service for consensus building (though whether consensus building is always the right tool is a separate debate.)

In fact after typing all this I feel like Help Me Decide Please could just as easily be used by two people, as an effective tool. Help us decide! I’ll try and see how it works!