Comments on: Hunch Goes Live. It’s Neat!

By: Hunch Tries Again

Hunch Tries Again — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 18:35:45 +0000

[...] on every imaginable topic–”Do you like the smell of Play-Doh?”–and I thought it was pretty neat at the time. But I haven’t been back often, and Hunch doesn’t seem to have become massively popular [...]

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 00:48:02 +0000

I don’t get it. (Would it have predicted that response?)

By: Charles Borwick

Charles Borwick — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:16:36 +0000

I think Hunch is pretty cool. I’ve been using it during the beta and I think it has a good success rate predicting the decisions I would have made anyway. The API is a really neat idea and may be their best contribution in the end.

My only issue is that once again it is a national/global destination site and really not organized around the community of people whose opinions and ideas I’m most likely to want and trust.

I’d prefer to go to a local site and ask questions in a less structured way and see what they have to say. For example http:questionland.thestranger.com is for people who read The Stranger in Seattle and Questionland should be available to all cities with alternative weeklies/sites after the upcoming AAN conference.

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:35:15 +0000

Nice post Harry.

I read a little bit about what hunch is in few other articles. So to add on to your post, Hunch is a new concept, but it’s probably best described in terms of the familiar. Fake says it’s a hybrid of several different ideas, similar in some ways to both Wikipedia and Yahoo Answers, but different in others.

Would like you to go through this article which talks a lot on the concept of hunch, what it is & what it is not and also how smart it is. Here is the link -
http://www.webguild.org/2009/06/hunch-a-real-decision-engine.php?p=p2

By: Tim Robertson

Tim Robertson — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 10:54:02 +0000

Neat, will have to check out when I have more time.