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Show HN: I built whatstype.org – a free personality test site

whatstype.org

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Hey HN,

I recently built whatstype.org , a free personality test website that helps people explore their thinking, communication, and relationship patterns.

Unlike most MBTI-style sites that only give you a short label, Whatstype digs deeper:

The test adapts to your responses dynamically

Results are structured around reasoning style, emotional pattern, and social interaction

Each of the 16 personality types includes detailed analysis, strengths, challenges, and real-life advice

No login, no tracking — everything runs client-side

I built it because I was frustrated with the typical “clickbait MBTI quizzes” that don’t respect users’ time or data. Whatstype focuses on clarity, accuracy, and clean UX rather than virality.

Tech stack:

Next.js 14 + TypeScript

TailwindCSS for UI

Structured JSON content for multi-language results

Fully static export, hosted on Cloudflare Pages

If you’re into psychology, data visualization, or just enjoy introspective tools, I’d love your feedback — especially on:

Question design (is it too long / too short?)

Result presentation clarity

Ideas for making the insights more actionable

You can try it here: https://whatstype.org

Thanks for reading!

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Bonus for not having 200 questions. It's nice to be able to have the results quickly. :)

I found myself disagreeing, even strongly, on the majority of questions. And what's with all the partying and hanging out with people? It would be nice if the same conclusions could be reached with, say, roughly 50:50 agreement:disagreement (each question could potentially be asked from the opposite viewpoint, and the site could randomly choose one of the two forms).

As for the results: Not surprisingly, the site rated me at 100% introversion (which is similar to what I have scored as in other such tests), but it was only after looking at the scores for the other parameters that it became apparent what an all-blue bar that went from 100% to 0% meant. I.e., it was unclear that blue meant introversion and green meant extraversion.

Overall a nice experience, though.

1. Most importantly, the type of personality testing you are implementing (4-letter types with 16 total) has no academical backing. As far as I understand, of all personality models only Big5 has been validated to some extent, everything else has not been proven as accurate at all.

2. As with most of similar tests, there is no value or insights in the test's results. I haven't gotten anything beyond what I already knew about myself. It asked me whether I liked to be a center of a party, I said no, and the test binned me to introverts. Thanks, but that is too obvious.

3. There are 9 ad blocks on the main page. The top one covers half of the page and stays up when I scroll. This is overwhelming.

4. All texts on the website are generic and most likely ai-written.

5. There is no info on who created the website. These days I feel that I don't trust anything which does not have an author stamp on it. I want to know that there is an actual person who put effort into what I am using.

Excellent implementation, a nice touch that it has several languages, it will be my default site to recommend!

Very well done!

Great layout, easy questions, fast

Non nonsense

Nailed my personality type perfectly

Fun project, great execution

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