Doocide Blog

Far from being fully polished, Doocide is now open to anybody, in public beta. You may check it out at doocide.com.

We released today a new feature that allows you to quickly create decisions and comparison charts based on tables you have found or created in Excel, Google Docs/Spreadsheets or any table on the Internet.

The process is very straight forward. Let’s take as an example a motorcycle comparison we’ve found on Motorcycle-USA.com. The chart puts side by side four 2010 BMW motorcycle models: R1200GS, F800GS, G450X and S1000RR.

Let’s assume you need to dynamically compare these models and choose the bike of your dreams.

1. Select and copy (CTRL+C) any table that has the product specs as rows and the values as columns.

Photo credit Motorcycle-USA.com

2. Paste the copied table on Doocide.com then hit “Create new” button.

3. All done. The choices table is automatically created and all the decision factors and choices descriptions are added as new entries.

You will then be able to select the importance of each decision factor and select the values for each choice by comparing between them.

In the end, Doocide will display the winner choice that suits you the best, based on the various decision factors you easily transferred from an existing table.

The smartphones are all about your personality. They need to match your lifestyle, they are required to function the way you expect to (in most cases), it just has to be Your Smartphone. So what would you do if it comes to buy one?

Before you go for just any smartphone that seems to fulfill your expectations, what if you’d have the chance to compare the key characteristics that would differentiate your best smartphone from the rest of them. Try it this way.

Start a new doocision (read “decision”) on Doocide.com.

Enter some key factors you would need to consider while making a smart selection, then choose what you feel their importance level should be. We’ve used @BillShrink’s thorough comparison chart for smartphones data – covered by an article on Mashable – for this case study.

Then add your smartphone choices to compare, say BlackBerry 8310 (as a base choice), iPhone 3Gs, Palm Pre, Motorola Droid and Nexus One.

Now go through each decision factor and set the satisfaction level for each smartphone in your list. You may slide the dice to the right if you think the smartphone in that column is better than the base choice, or slide the dice to the left if you think that the smartphone would perform worse than the one selected as a base choice.

In the end you will have a winner smartphone that will satisfy all your criteria (winner shown randomly).

Snapshot of Doocide.com

Unless this is a private doocision, Doocide.com is allowing other users to save this data in a separate entry, as their own perspective, and modify it with their selections. After more perspectives are being added for the same doocision, you may merge them to display an objective average result, that will highlight the winner based on multiple people’s selections.

We plan to have the first invitations delivered to our first users as soon as next week, of January 18th, 2010. If you’d like to check out on our start-up nobody knows about yet, please register your email to receive an invitation: http://doocide.com.

And, yes, we have a logo!

We doocided to have a new domain name, decisioniter.com was not a verb.

We registered this domain in July 2009 (later update: we’ve switched from the initial domain name decisioniter.com), have the main idea brainstormed since a few years now, but we still can’t decide if or when we should start working on it. Kicked off something these days…