Apr 1 2009
Hunch – First Impressions
Today I received an invite to the Hunch private beta, which was pretty exciting, usually when I apply for these things I never hear back from them : (
Anyway if you haven’t heard of Hunch, its a new take on the Questions and Answers format, instead of getting a written answer from another user, it takes you through a simple decision tree, basically it asks you multiple choice questions about the thing your looking for the answer to, after a number of steps it give you an answer.
To better illustrate how it works, check out the video below:
I was pretty impressed with hunch, considering its a brand new service it already seems to have a fairly decent database of questions and seems relatively active. Hunch apparently learns from the feedback users give to it, updating its answers all the time. After using it for a while however, I think there are two issues for Hunch to overcome. While the service performs pretty well on yes/no style questions when things get a bit more complicated or less black and white it struggles, it’s answers become more uncertain and from my experience with Blurtit a large percentage of questions fall into this second category. Hunch also seems to lack the community aspect of more conventional Q&A sites like Blurtit or Yahoo Answers and because of this I am not sure it will hold the attention of its users. That being said of all the new Q&A sites I have seen in the past year Hunch is by far the most innovative and the most promising.
Apr 06, 2009 @ 05:01:16
Any idea how Hunch is going to montise from the beta?