(This is a strange tweet in the sense that it's aimed at maybe 10 people who have an idea almost formed in their heads. Those few it may tip into epiphany. To everyone else it will seem at best plausible but vague.)
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People are bad at judging things individually but good at comparing two things side by side. So much so that if you put two things side by side it's hard not to compare them. It seems likely there are yet to be founded startups driven by this.
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Immediate thought was Zuck's 'Hot or Not'
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Hot or Not for startups
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isn’t that how facebook started?
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i wonder how viable it would be to use a mechanism like this for rating systems in products like netflix / spotify to improve recommendations
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Tinder 2.0
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Human brains are averaging machines. This is why the more diversity you are exposed to, the more balanced you become.
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Eh, isn't this how Facebook started with FaceMash?
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Pioneer and the best hackathons use this as central parts of the voting
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Curious - do you do side by side comparisons of startups at yc?
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