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I often struggle with decision paralysis. For years, I've relied on simple random number generators to help me choose from my options. However, they never felt quite right. They just produced a number without any context, making the decision feel disassociated from the options I had assigned.

So, I've built a simple app. While its randomness isn't backed by the movement of sunspots or something, the process I use behind the scenes adds a bit of finesse. This ensures that the choice you get will feel right.

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remram
What's the finesse? How is this better than Math.random?
noximo
That just outputs a single number. I'm running a hundred dice rolls, one by one. Because you need to wait for the results, you often start rooting for/against one of the choices. And that gives you more insight and clarity than any coin toss can. But if you're truly undecided, my app won't spit out a result that's basically 50:50 (or very very close to it), even though that's statistically most likely. Instead, the winner of those 100 rounds gets a big boost in 30 more, rigged, rounds - the winner automatically wins every other round (plus around half of the remaining rounds), giving it a considerable edge. And a choice that leads by 6-8% is more convincing than a choice that barely avoided a tie.
remram
I don't get it. You put in multiple options, it picks one randomly. No?