I’ve been working on this concept for 16 years, and just launched a playable MVP it’s called JuryNow, and I’d love your take on it.
The idea:
You ask any personal dilemma or life choice (serious or silly) and get a snap verdict from 12 real people from around the world, anonymously, within 3 minutes.
But here's the game loop:
💡 To get your verdict, you "pay" with ** Jury Duty** answering other people’s questions for a 3 minutes. The questions can be on any topic from a fashion dilemma to a workplace problem, to a big life decision or a mini political poll.It’s fast, instinctive, and weirdly addictive.
There is no commentary, discussion or debate...it's just a binary choice powered by human collective intelligence. It gives you a global perspective on a decision if you are stuck, and if you aren't!
JuryNow plays like a global social deduction/party game, where objectivity, empathy, and instinct matter more than logic or debate.
You can ask questions like:
"Is Atlas more of a girl name or a boy name?"
"Celery vs. broccoli/ which is more hated by kids?"
"Someone keeps ripping down my LGBTQ activism stickers off of lightposts. Should I super glue them or give up?"
It’s kind of like Wavelength, Cards Against Humanity, or The Resistance, but... micro-sized and real-time.
🎮 Play it here: https://www.jurynow.app/
Would love your honest feedback as board game fans ...what works, what doesn’t, how you’d explain it to others, or whether this could ever make sense as an app or even a table top version one day?
Thank you! 🙏
Just to clarify up front: JuryNow® is trademarked and not open source and not designed for self-hosting. It’s a live, centralized platform I’ve built over many years, and I’m sharing it here and would love feedback from board ganers! (not to release the code or architecture.)
This reminds me of an old site I used to frequent called YouThink. It's dead now, but way-back-machine has some snapshots of how it looked.
Basically you'd do exactly what you're saying: you have an account, you submit interesting/fun/silly binary questions, and then you sit there and answer others' questions for hours. T'was a simpler time...
oh thank you!! I'd never heard of it! and it does have simalarities (although JuryNow is designed to just be played 3 minutes a day, otherwise if you play if for 20 minutes, one's empathy/objectivity levels can plummet!) Thanks so much playing & for your feedback Teawreck!