(CNN) -- Stumped on a tough decision? New Web sites are there to help.



Hunch, a site open to the public Monday, asks questions and helps people make decisions.



Hunch, a site that launches for the public Monday, will consider your quandary by getting to know you, asking you a series of questions and then spitting out three decisions.



Another site, Let Simon Decide, makes a similar attempt.



Caterina Fake, co-founder of the photo-sharing community Flickr, says she created Hunch not because people need help with emotional decisions but because it's too tough to find smart information online. You often have to replicate someone else's research, which is a waste, she said.



Tech bloggers seem to be pleased with the effort.



"For the most part, I was impressed, though it quickly became clear that Hunch isn't capable of magically making up your mind for you," wrote Jason Kincaid, a reporter at TechCrunch, a technology blog. He called the site "very clean and unintimidating."



Fake spoke with CNN about decision making, her nerdy past and the power of collective knowledge. The following is an edited transcript:



CNN: Where did you get the idea for Hunch?



Fake: It's a user-generated content site similar to Flickr, but the unit is not a photograph but a decision. And so it's sort of a similar thing in that way. We kind of built the system so people can contribute to it. They can ask questions on there and suggest questions. And then you sort of codify it into a decision tree.



CNN: So you're answering questions about yourself?



Fake: Well, there are two components. So you answer questions about yourself, and there's a little module that says things like, "Alien abductions: real or fake?" And what [Hunch] does is, it then puts together a profile of you, a taste profile. And then you can go into the system and ask it any question that's in the system. So it's things like, "What HD-TV should I buy?" or "Where should I go to college?" or, you know, "Where should I eat in San Diego on a Saturday night?" It could be just about anything.



Once it kind of gets to know you, you can ask it questions, and then it gives an answer to you that it doesn't give to anyone else.



CNN: What are the downsides?



Fake: It depends on what the decision is. There is kind of an array of decisions that are too taste-oriented. Like, no matter how well we know you, we're not going to know that your backyard is like 25 feet by 10 feet, versus 10 feet by 10 feet [for a person looking to buy a backyard grill]. You know what I'm saying? There's no system that can get to know that. So what we try to do is narrow it down. So we ask you questions about your aesthetics or your beliefs or your politics or your demographic.



CNN: What kind of decision-maker are you?



Fake: It's really funny, because I think there's a mistake that's generally made with people asking about Hunch, and it's that it's solving people's emotional problems. And it's not. It's solving people's informational problems.



I don't have any problems making any decisions. I've never had any problem making decisions, but when I go to Google and I'm looking for information, say, about trademarks. I have to do all this research, and somebody has already done this research.



CNN: So you see Hunch as a kind of search engine, almost?



Fake: No, it's not a search engine. The feel of it is nothing like a search engine. It's something new.



CNN: How do you think collective knowledge online will change the way people live, or the way we interact with
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