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I built a decision app because group chats cannot decide — here is what I learned

The problem I kept noticing the same pattern: six people in a group chat, twenty minutes, zero decisions. Restaurant, movie, weekend plan — the loop always ended with "I don't care, you pick" followed…

  • Choozy is an Android app designed to end group decision loops
  • Creator learned to add preset options before spinning wheel
  • QR code group mode key to app's growth and spread

Nobody wants to import your library

I wrote a Python library. Then I watched people not use it. Not because they disagreed with it — the thesis landed fine. The problem was the shape of the ask.

  • Schemagate library requires users to write import statements, causing low adoption.
  • Command line interface allows querying databases without imports; demo schema runs with 42 objects.

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