I built this after realizing I was spending way too much mental energy on decisions that clearly didn’t matter.
What surprised me wasn’t that people used a coin flip — it was that many said the result itself is irrelevant. Their reaction to it tells them what they already want.
That made me wonder: are tools like this actually about randomness, or just a socially acceptable way to outsource responsibility for starting?
Curious how others here think about this. Is randomness useful, or just a psychological trick to get unstuck?
I don’t think “no ads or tracking” should be a merit at all. It just ended up that way because this started as something I built for myself, and I never bothered adding anything beyond what was needed to make it work.
And yeah, you’re totally right about Math.random(). I didn’t think much about “randomness quality” when building it — it’s very much a naive implementation. If someone opens the console and tweaks it, that’s fair.
For me it was less about randomness being correct, and more about having something external that nudges me to start. At that point, the coin flip has already done its job.
Yeah, the thing with randomness is just my observation. I don't even know if there's anything you can do about it as the program runs on someone else's computer. That's not a huge problem for a simple app anyways
I built this after realizing I was spending way too much mental energy on decisions that clearly didn’t matter.
What surprised me wasn’t that people used a coin flip — it was that many said the result itself is irrelevant. Their reaction to it tells them what they already want.
That made me wonder: are tools like this actually about randomness, or just a socially acceptable way to outsource responsibility for starting?
Curious how others here think about this. Is randomness useful, or just a psychological trick to get unstuck?
I wonder at which point of time did the absence of ads and tracking become a great merit rather than a basic feature
The app itself is nice, by the way
Although I found that you can tamper with randomness by executing some JS in the console xd: `Math.random() = () => 1`
That’s a good question, honestly.
I don’t think “no ads or tracking” should be a merit at all. It just ended up that way because this started as something I built for myself, and I never bothered adding anything beyond what was needed to make it work.
And yeah, you’re totally right about Math.random(). I didn’t think much about “randomness quality” when building it — it’s very much a naive implementation. If someone opens the console and tweaks it, that’s fair.
For me it was less about randomness being correct, and more about having something external that nudges me to start. At that point, the coin flip has already done its job.
Yeah, the thing with randomness is just my observation. I don't even know if there's anything you can do about it as the program runs on someone else's computer. That's not a huge problem for a simple app anyways