Fair Pick is an app that will allow a person to designate a group that needs to make a decision.

Let’s say a family of five want to watch a movie. How do they decide? They can just discuss, but that can get tough. Can take a long time. That conversation may be filled with all sorts of complex incentives. Some may enjoy the conversation, others less so. Or a group discussion in a messaging app. Lots of messages! Or a poll in a messaging app, but who decides what’s in the poll?

A group of friends who live in different parts of the city want to meet for lunch, but somehow each of their favorite restaurants are near where they each live. And some are more price sensitive than others.

Fair Pick will allow a person to designate a group of people who will make a particular decision and to set the parameters and timing of that decision. For example. One member of the family could set the pick, say that by 3pm each of the other four members of the family should propose up to four movies to watch and they should vote by six pm. When each family member proposes a movie it will come with the title, length, year it was made, main actors, and a poster. They will also be able to write 200 characters about why they nominated the movie and make up to a one minute video if they’d like to.

At three pm if each has nominated all four, then each family member will get a message saying it is time to vote.

They will see a series of twenty screens with the posters and information at the top and if the nominator put in text and/or a video that will be at the bottom. They just swipe right if they’d be ok seeing the movie, and left if not. They can vote for as many or as few as they want. Then by six pm each person will find out which movie they are watching.

After the event there will be a permanent “wall” for the group to comment on thoughts about the movie or whatever else they want to write about the event. Only those in on the pick will have access to that wall.

Same process for any particular thing that has to be chosen by a group.

How does that sound? Useful?