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Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

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post #27

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.

after reading yesterday’s posts here:

that’d be a nice play project for phoenix and liveview!

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

#32

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.

> I can't even decide what to put in the choices list. Man.

"what question should I ask? and what should the answers be?"

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

#33

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 Deci…

Reminds me of /r/amitheasshole - can someone in an emotionally convoluted/charged situation figure out if they are objectively (by judgment of strangers) being an ass. Obviously there is a ton of bias based on how the OP presents a situation, but the idea of getting an outside opinion has already proved popular.

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

#34
post #16

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 I know of. I learned through years of practice and reading hundreds of varied blog posts. If you find a book or resource like that please ping me.

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

#35

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.

fixed :) thanks for the feedback!

No problem! You also have a label repeated, which makes the first item to select the second radio-button:

    
    super important
    
pretty important

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

#37
This would've been great a few days ago when I was making officer decisions for a student club of mine. I had it narrowed down to approximately 10 candidates but the process after that was painful due to the balancing of factors like technical expertise, leadership experience, free time, etc.

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

#38
Seems pretty cool. I originally thought from the name that this would post the questions and then let users vote on them, but this is well-made.

As a note, your label for the highest level of importance should be for="factor-weight-4", currently two labels point at for="factor-weight-3". This means the wrong radio button is selected if you click that label. But props to you for actually using labels and inputs properly so you don't have to try to click on a tiny radio button.

Re: Show HN: Help Me Decide Please

#39
I'm sorry to say this, but, this is not so very good. Having worked with other decision methods such as TOPSIS, AHP, and ANP, and note that those are the simplest and most commented on (and not about its features, but about its shortcomings), in your analysis/software, it is impossible to compare choices among them, which is a huge hindrance to the method.
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