During my regular perusal of new happenings on the world wide web I came across Hunch. Hunch.com is a decision-making website which uses a bunch of personal questions to determine the most appropriate answer for you individually. The beta version launched in March 2009 of Hunch was only accessible via invitation. The full opening was 4 days ago.

Hunch - Should I use Hunch?

For example if you are looking to buy some new training shoes you will answer a few questions about yourself and how you will use your shoes. Hunch will then suggest three different trainers with a nice link to an e-commerce site…good idea.

Hunch - Suggestion

If your question requires a simple yes or no answer, for example: Do I need a Smartphone? Hunch will give you a percentage of yes and no e.g. 25% yes and 75% no.

The more questions you answer, the more Hunch knows about you and hence the more relevant the suggestion. Also you can judge the result, if you think that the answer is not relevant you can let Hunch know and they will add this change to its data base.

Hunch is pretty funny to use for stupid questions such as ‘Should I clean my house?’ or ‘Does my breath stink?’ where you don’t really need the advise of a computer. Also it is a good way to know different options that you did not consider (What’s the best dog breed for me?).

I even think that Hunch will provide more practical answers for the day to day life than Wolfram Alpha (please see my previous post)…