Before you buy it, book it or quit for it
Want BehindYou asked for a new phone. What do you actually want?
People name the usual answer first: a new phone, a gym, a move. Type one thing you think you want and get interviewed about it, one question at a time, each with a guess you can push back on, until the want underneath has a name. The page's reading and the card are free, in your browser.
1 The wish free
2 The page's reading free
Ask yourself first - the questions for the parts not said yet, free
Answer any you like. Your answers count as said, and they travel with the interview.
3 The interview metered per turn
The reply, as it came
The page's check of this turn
4 The climb free
5 The card free
Six lines about what you actually want. Write them yourself, or take them from the interview's restate. A card is confirmed only by a plain yes.
6 Saved interviews
How it works
The page reads; the interviewer asks. The page sorts the wish by its wording, first match wins: names nothing yet (sort my life out, something), names a feeling (to be happier, less stressed), names a move (quit, move, learn, start) or names a thing (a new, buy, get a). It then looks for the five parts of a want in your own words - who it's for, why now, what success looks like, the real limit, what it is not - and for phrases that sound like what you think you should want (I should, everyone, supposed to, sensible, properly).
One question at a time, with a guess. Each turn gives the interviewer's current read of the want and an honest confidence: how well it could predict your answers to its next three questions. Below 90% it asks one question and attaches its guess, so you can react rather than start from scratch. After a "should want" answer, it asks what you would want with no one to justify it to.
The restate and the yes. From 90% it writes six lines - outcome, for whom, why now, success, the limit, and what it is not - with ways to get there and one thing to check first. "Sounds good" or "whatever you think" are polite exits, not a yes; only "Yes, that's it" confirms. From turn six, below 60%, it steps back and asks something more basic; an interview has at most ten turns.
A friendly exercise, not advice. It never recommends a product or tells you what you should want. The page re-checks every turn against these rules and lists anything that slipped.