I'll be honest about why this exists. My family eats out two or three times a week, and we are genuinely bad at deciding where. My partner does the real work: researches places, reads menus, sends a short list to the group chat. My contribution is usually "I'm easy, you pick." I'm the easy-going one, for better and worse. I wanted a way for the whole group to weigh in at once, instead of a forty-five minute thread that ends with someone counting thumbs-up reactions by hand. So I built one.
I love the idea of software that gets out of the way. That is what I want Decide to be: a fast way past the friction of getting a group to pick something, and a way to give every voter enough to make a real choice instead of an uninformed shrug. Each option can carry its own photos, details, and links, so people vote informed instead of going to research six places themselves.
Some promises come with that, and I mean them. I'll never sell your data. Voting takes no login and no install, and that won't change. Decide doesn't run ads and it never will. Paid plans may eventually cover the bills, but voting itself stays free. The cookie that ties a vote to a device stays out of analytics and out of error reports, on purpose.
I live in Kansas City with my partner and our family. Outside of building Decide I'm into games (board games, video games, the whole pile). Picking the next game-night title is exactly the kind of friendly standoff Decide is built to end.