Kanso
The career quiz that won't let you pick everything
I felt that the standard personality tests (Myers-Briggs, DiSC, StrengthsFinder, etc) are all useful to understand who you are, but they don't really give you any insight into how you could make a decision about a particular role you're in or considering.
So, I built Kanso around one constraint - you can't have everything. Just like real life, you have to choose. "When everything's important, nothing is". The result is a trade-off profile - a ranked view of what you'd protect, what you'd compromise on, and what you genuinely don't care about.
If you've ever struggled to compare two job offers or felt stuck in your current role, that's exactly what Kanso is for.
Where I'm at right now...
The MVP is done, entirely free, not sure if the feature set I have right now is enough to charge people. Thinking about team views on this data, measuring peoples current roles as well.
First focus is marketing - purely neglected so far...so that is honestly my main focus for a while.
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I think the strongest part here is the constraint, not the profile.
Most personality tools tell people who they are. Kanso seems more useful when it helps someone make a decision they are already avoiding.
That distinction matters for marketing.
If it gets framed as another self-understanding tool, people may find it interesting but not urgent. The sharper angle is probably around moments where trade-offs are already painful: comparing two roles, deciding whether to stay, or realizing a “good” job is costing something they actually care about.
I’d be careful not to decide the team-view direction too early before proving which individual decision moment creates real pull.
Happy to put the tighter first-marketing angle in writing if useful. This feels less like a personality-test problem and more like a positioning/pricing decision problem.