Dev Personality Test
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Was curious how a personality test would look for developers. So created this using FastAPI, HTMX, and AlpineJS.
HN · launched Apr 4, 2026 · 14 upvotes (top 31%) · 0 views
Niche: online personality quiz platforms · 69 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▲ +60% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Analytics & BI
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 69 launches in online personality quiz platforms →
Could you build this?
Yes A straightforward quiz app using FastAPI, HTMX, and AlpineJS that tallies answers or sends them to an LLM API to return a developer archetype.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: AI-generated quiz questions don't match user circumstances (irrelevant time options), AI-generated multiple choice answers don't cover user's actual answers, Multiple choice limits expressiveness vs. free-form text
Feature requests: Multiple answer selection for quiz questions, Free-form text response evaluation instead of multiple choice
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 77 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #22 of 78 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 142 days after the earliest competitor.
- Parallax Engage · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- I built whatstype.org · hn · 2025-11-13 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- 4MySelf · ph · 2026-10-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Personality Test · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- SoulType · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- InterviewGo : Real Interview Experiences · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Try Archetype 360 · hn · 2026-03-02 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Tipe.me · ph · 2026-10-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
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