Nobody likes to make difficult decisions. And while the web has offered outlets for advice for years, ranging from forums to sites like Yahoo Answers, these are prone to flame wars and grossly incorrect information. Now, some new startups are emerging that are looking to take the community element - or at least the flamewars associated with it - out of the equation. Today sees the launch of LetSimonDecide, a new site that looks to help make decisions easier across a variety of topics, ranging from picking a college major to determining if you should buy or sell your stock.

Essentially it's not really Simon making the decision, since the idea is that the app just helps you think about the most important factors in your decision. You'd be crazy to let a web application make a difficult decision for you anyway, so it seems like it's taking the right approach. Got an important decision you're struggling with? Try it out on Simon and let us know how it worked for you in the comments.

The final result is the grand decision. Going through the process myself, I noticed that Let Simon Decide forced me to think about my next tattoo with more clarity and reason than I probably would have done without the tool. In fact, Let Simon Decide’s final decision happened to be the one that I became pretty content with during the process. Should I have wavered in the slightest, Let Simon Decide’s post-analytics would have been a reassuring tool to keep me focused on my new decision.

Overall, the process was actually quite fun. It took the anxiety and pain out of making decisions based on reality. We recommend it for the indecisive, the poor planners, and the chronically chaotic. Users who might fit that profile are especially encouraged to test the app and leave their findings in the comments here.

From a Redondo guy long ridiculed for making decisions via pro-and-con spreadsheets, Simon helps you make life choices based on your personality, a mess of variables, and math formulas, which you long ago decided for yourself you didn't like. Best results're obtained by first filling out "My Life Profile." a quick personality test and query about your goals; then, plunge into the decisions, broken down by categories…

What I liked about it was that Simon reminded me of my goals, my values, and my personality (or at least what I identified as the personality type closest to mine) as I went through my decision-making process. The real work is in thinking through your personality type and your goals, something many people probably fail to do when making important decisions. It also helps if you write goals that relate in some way to the decisions you’re asking about.

Sure, the search engine has revolutionized your life, helping you find everything from the capital of Paraguay (Asunción, obviously) to pictures of Jessica Alba in various states of undress. But sometimes you have questions ("Should I hook up with that flirty barista?") that Google can't answer. That's why we're fascinated with Let Simon Decide and Hunch, two new sites that aim to solve just these sorts of quandaries.

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Using algorithms and generally a bunch of stuff I don’t understand, Let Simon Decide will help you reach a conclusive decision. First, you create a free account. Then, enter your problem and the various options that you have to solve that problem. The site will then walk you through the decision-making process and help you reach a firm, decisive answer. The testimonials on the site show that a good number of people are enjoying this, and it was even recently mentioned on Lifehacker, which is every geek’s dream (including mine).

Stumped on a tough decision? New Web sites are there to help. Hunch, a site that launches for the public Monday, will consider your quandary by getting to know you, asking you a series of questions and then spitting out three decisions. Another site, Let Simon Decide, makes a similar attempt.

LetSimonDecide.com will help you to make smarter decisions, faster than before. In case you want to make less stressful decisions you are on the right site. Is it essential to learn about your abilities to make a decision that might change your life.

Now that our minds are paralyzed by the wealth of choices presented by the Internet, our mobile devices, and the toothpaste aisle…the biggest offender of this group--the Internet--is trying to play nicey-nicey and help us make the decisions that it spent all that time rendering us incapable of making. Let Simon Decide takes your input and uses sophisticated algorithms to help you make decisions like “Where should I live?” and “Should I sell my house?”

例えば、あなたが転職しようとしている場合、まず「Let Simon Decide」に登録し、「Make a Smart Decision」ボタンをクリックします。ドロップダウンメニューから意思決定の種類を選択し、提供される意思決定ウィザードに従って進んでいきます。「Simon」があれこれ質問してきますのでそれに答え、フォームに記入してさらに進んでいくと、このプロセスによって「何が自分に最も重要なのか」が明らかになり、それに基づいた意思決定が提示される、という仕組みだそうです。