Hunch - helps you make decisions

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How about a site which would help you with your decisions?.Sounds interesting and less mind boggling? Now answer a host of questions and voila there comes your answer. Hunch (launched on June 15 2009), is the new decision making (rather offering/providing) site from Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake. Ask it a question - "What kind of jeans should I buy?" and it will ask you a few questions about yourself, then come up with an answer. That answer, of course, isn't always a stroke of genius, and nobody should rely solely on Hunch's advice for life-altering decisions. As more and more people use this site and answers questions, hunch learns more.The recommendations are usually powered and collected through user contributions.Hunch also allows the users to create new topics, provided you have played atleast 3 topics before you create your own.

Newly submitted topics often won't be very mature and smart at first, but as more and more people train and refine them, the topics will get much smarter. Also, Hunch's decision outcomes will become increasingly customized for you the more Hunch gets to know you. You could also try many topics and answer the 'Teach Hunch About You' questions which appear on the top right of the homepage. Hunch also has provisions to add any language topic (though didn't find an option on the site). Eventually it would become a multilingual site, as per the founder.

Now dont know how many people would make decisions based on this site, which is what we'll have to wait and watch.However, the site can be fun when it comes to trivial matters.

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