YES? or YES!
Winner (307 teams)
LA Hacks · 2026
Can't make a decision? Type in your options and three live pet fish choose for you by swimming toward one. The computer then actually goes and does whatever the fish picked.
We wanted the most unhinged possible use of 36 hours. The premise: take an actual fish tank with three real guppies and put it in charge of a real human's real life. Over the phone, in real time, with real consequences on a real MacBook. No prompt, no UI, no off-ramp. The fish decide, your computer obeys. You call a Twilio number. A snarky AI fish picks up. You tell it about something going on in your life. A breakup, a meeting you forgot, the job you just lost. The fish picks two options for you, one slightly bad and one catastrophically bad, and shows them on a TV mounted behind a real fish tank. Three guppies swim around. Whichever side of the tank the majority of fish are on when the countdown ends, that is the option that wins.
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