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Show HN: A data-backed quiz to identify what city you should live in
- schoen 5y agoThis is really cool, but it feels like you're making users do a lot of work to elicit their preferences. Do you think if you asked them to rate each input factor directly, they would be less honest, or some of their implicit preferences wouldn't get surfaced properly, or something?
- danwaters 5y agoThanks! Yeah, my feedback from initial testers is that they found it less interesting to enter their preferences directly. I think it's easy to know what you like, but harder to weight them directly (e.g. Is "Great restaurants" more important to me than "Walkability"?). So I switched the default to the quiz that will figure weights out for you, but left the option to rate directly if you prefer that. Just click the "skip quiz" button on the welcome screen.
- Markoff 5y agoSkip quiz button doesn't work, at least on mobile
- danwaters 5y agoHmm, I'm not seeing that. Mind letting me know what browser/OS you're on?
- Markoff 5y agonow it works edit: very odd results, almost all top 10 results are California despite being slightly against Liberal and slightly for Conservatives and it's one of the last places in US I would move especially based on last two years the problem is categories are not weighed I guess
- Markoff 5y agothis, I gave up in the middle, nobody has time to answer 50 repetitious questions
- cranky908canuck 5y agoI found that really bugged me, yes. At the same time, it forces you to make tradeoffs: Cold winter and good restaurants vs MOR politics and walkability. IE, how do I make this decision, doesn't make upfront sense, but I have to. Classic case of "you don't get what you want, but you do get to reject what you don't want". We (me + SO) recently went on the city-shopping game, the questions here seemed very much the same as the ones we found ourselves confronting. The questions at the end seemed to be converging on this. Be nice to (a) give the top ten, not just the top, and (b) for the questionnaire-ee (is that a word) specify upfront "Only in $jurisdiction" (so , .CAN, .US.CA, .EU.FR, etc). I assume this is a constraint on the underlying data...?
- cranky908canuck 5y agoSorry, parallel followup ... My experience is, you don't have a full range of things to rate, and not a lot of actual choices. You may be constrained geographically. So two alternatives: this is what sticks out: "40% of district is parkland, arts and crafts culture, two expensive ferry rides to any kind of significant shopping" vs "retirement community of newcomers, great local hospital, significant unhoused population"... these are the things that stick out, but no common axis to rate them on. So the questions one are faced with when "shopping for a home town" often look like the ones this site poses.
- triyambakam 5y agoI got to the end and can't proceed. this.saEvent is not a function NuxtJS 16 calculateResults scoreChoice Otherwise seems very interesting!
- riidom 5y agoYup same here :/
- danwaters 5y agoDarn, not sure why that's happening for a couple people. I just pushed a fix to at least prevent it from crashing. If you're still curious, it should have saved your results locally before it crashed, so if you reload the page you can see what you would have gotten without retaking the whole thing.
- dflock 5y agoThis is US only - you should say that somewhere.
- kai546 5y agoPossible to make it an open source project?