hunch.com review
Alex gave me an invite to try out hunch.com and I gave it a whirl since it sounded like a good concept, but I tried 3 questions and am thoroughly not impressed.
Maybe I’m too particular, maybe it’s the questions I asked, but spending just as much time with google as I did with this service or using the “I’m feeling lucky” button would have yielded me better results.
I asked about what would be the best cloud computing platform and it did not take into account my particular situation and so half the answers were of no use to me (a flaw Alex also noticed).
I asked about which longboard I should buy (now that the weather is getting nice I’m hunting for one), and it new nothing of my question and would not allow me to start a new topic since I had not used the service enough. I guess it is good for spam blocking, but annoying.
I also threw hunch a softball question after it crashed and burned on the first two and asked about which mac would be right for me. It did manage to pick the type of mac I’m currently eyeballing but did not offer any help as far as which configuration or the type of customization I would need to make it useful for me. It helped point me in the general direction but failed to yield what I consider a truly useful result.
Hopefully it can get better with time as it “learns” from the crowd, but for now it is just a novelty.
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Maybe you didn’t read the initial description of Hunch. http://www.caterina.net/archive/001169.html
All the topics you describe in your blog post were half finished user created topics over the last few days. Criticizing those topics is like criticizing pages on Wikipedia that were created 2 days ago and not yet complete. There is a featured topics section on Hunch which is a much better place to start if you want to evaluate the system’s potential.
Fair enough, I’m probably being overly critical of something that is “half baked”.
I went back and tried some of the featured topics and came away just as underwhelmed when it comes to getting specific usable answers to questions, but I did garner a slightly different perspective of the service. I think it can be incredibly useful if you have no clue about a topic and need to get pointed in the right direction. The pros/cons section gives pretty good food for thought when it comes to dealing with further evaluation of a result provided by hunch.
I’ve got a few invites left if anyone would like to try hunch for themselves.
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