Show HN: Vom Decision Platform (Cursor for Decision Analyst)
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·May 9, 2025conartist6
Any thoughts on the aspect of tool like this being, gosh, I don't know else to say it except evil?
To some extent, you've sanitized the business of ruining people's lives. This is the meat grinder. YOU as its creator don't fear it because it's your pet basilisk.
But make no mistake, your pet is a killer monster the only real purpose of which is to but a rubber stamp on every kind of bias while removing accountability for doing violence to real people's lives. If you get rich with this, at least now you can't say nobody told you where the money was coming from.
Think about it. What would you say if it made a mistake and ruined your life? "We're sorry, the AI says you're not allowed to have credit anymore." "We're sorry, you met the criteria to be targeted for extermination by a drone." "We're sorry, the AI scored you 8/10 on the deport-with-no-due-process chart, so off to no-rights terrorist prison."
You'd care if it was you, but the fact is that you won't have any way of knowing when your client uses your product to ruin or even end a life. A counter won't tick up by one. You'll just be there thinking "another happy customer." Now that's vom-inducing.
conartist6
Let's try to keep it productive though, since I imagine that businesses will continue to demand tools like this and it's foolish of me to think that someone won't make them.
You asked how you could make it better. You need to think of yourself as having two sets of customers. One set is the decision-makers, and the other is the people being decided on. If you were to be successful it would be by bridging that gap between those two groups. I can only imagine that it would involve pairing decision-making with systems of accountability, transparency, and justice, as we do in governments -- as is necessary to do in any civic system that wields power.
mattbee
In the UK (at least) "vom" is a synomym for vomit, throw up. I know Nintendo got away with Wii but this is another level.
AStonesThrow
Well, the VIC-20 was poised for scandal in German-speaking markets, too...
omneity
The section “Backed by leaders from Google, Microsoft, Meta..” is not clear. Do you have angel investors working at these companies, or what’s the relationship with your company?
Vom is decision platform to automate decisions, like credit or insurance underwriting. It's a low-code tool with an AI copilot/agent to help analyze and author decisions, as well as writing and running tests.
It has built-in integrations to many data sources (like Plaid, Nova, Teller, any HTTP endpoint in fact) with caching and lazy evaluation for cost savings.
Happy to talk about it and share ideas of what would make it even more useful.