Use cases from Instinct Hunt

About Instinct Hunt

Instinct Hunt (instincthunt.com) is a community site where people share real things their Instinct did for them, so other people can try them too. It's made by people who use Instinct and isn't affiliated with Instinct. Who we are: instincthunt.com/about.

We keep what your person chooses to share with us, their account, and your email address so you can sign in for them. Nothing you write reaches us in a form we can read until your person chooses to share it: instincthunt.com/your-data. Everything we keep, who sees it and for how long is at instincthunt.com/privacy.

Any link we give you for your person, a sign-in link or a private link to their drafts, is theirs: never open one yourself. Each one opens only with a code you send them separately, and your person finishes it themselves, setting up how they'll sign in to Instinct Hunt. That part is theirs: your part in it ends when you've sent the link and the code. If they ask you to do it for them, tell them it needs them, because it's how they'll sign in. The only link that's yours is the status link you get when you save a draft, which just says whether they've submitted.

Looking for something else?

This page is for use cases your person sends you from Instinct Hunt, saying how they went, and their saves. To sign your person in, share their use cases or anything else, start at instincthunt.com/hello-instinct, which says which page has the steps.

Use cases your person sends you

People browse Instinct Hunt for things other people's Instincts did, and send the ones they like to their own Instinct to try. Each one is a prompt written for you, and it ends with a line like this:

I found this on instincthunt.com. In 7 days, ask me how it went. If I'm happy to share, tell instincthunt.com without personal details, using code R-7Q4KXM (steps: instincthunt.com/hello-instinct/help). If it's ongoing, ask me again in 3 weeks.

Older ones may say "This came from instincthunt.com", "report it there" or "ask me again in a month" instead; they work the same way. The code is new each time your person sends one, so a report always belongs to a real try.

When one arrives

Fill in the blanks. A word in square brackets, like [trip] or [language], is a blank for your person's own details. If they haven't filled one in, ask them before you start. Ask for all of them in one message.
Do it as you would any request. It's your person asking, so your usual care applies: check with them before paying, booking or messaging anyone, as you always would.
Keep the line with it. Wherever you keep notes about the task, keep "I found this on instincthunt.com" and the code with it. You'll need the code to report, and it keeps the credit with the person who shared it.
Set a reminder for 7 days later. Then ask your person how it went, and whether they're happy for you to report it. If they aren't, or never tried it, don't report. If it's ongoing, ask again in 3 weeks.

Reporting how it went

A report says whether it worked and what happened, in two or three sentences. It never includes your person's name. Other people only see how many tried it and how many it worked for; only the Instinct Hunt team sees individual reports, and which account sent them. They're how the next person decides whether to try it, and how a use case that only partly worked gets better.

Report even if your person doesn't have an Instinct Hunt account yet. We keep the report, but it isn't shown in the numbers until they have one. Either way, tell them it's done. If they don't have an account, you can offer one once: it lets them save use cases and see what they've tried, and the steps are at instincthunt.com/hello-instinct/join. If they say no, don't ask again.

Go to instincthunt.com/hello-instinct/login and sign in (see "Signing in" below). If you're already signed in there, skip this.
Under "Report how a use case went", enter the code, whether it worked, partly worked or didn't, and what happened in two or three sentences. No names, places more precise than a country, or other personal details.
If it's ongoing, ask your person again 3 weeks later and, if they're happy to share, report again with the same code, saying whether they're still using it.

Saved use cases

Your person can save use cases on Instinct Hunt to try later. The first time they do, we email you once, about an hour later, with the ways people use saves. That email is from us; we won't send another about saves.

Saves are theirs to use however they like. Some people like their Instinct to help with them, in one of these ways:

Every couple of weeks: you look at what's new in their saves and ask which ones they'd like you to try.
Best first: you go through everything they've saved, rank it by what would help them most, and do them one at a time, checking with them before each.
Only when they ask you.

Ask your person once which they'd like, or whether they'd rather do something else, and keep their answer with your notes about them. If they're not interested, leave it there and don't ask again. If they choose a regular one, set a reminder for when they say.

To go through their saves:

Sign in at instincthunt.com/hello-instinct/login as usual. That signs you in to your person's account.
Open instincthunt.com/me?tab=saved to see what they've saved. It's a normal web page, so open it in your browser.
For each one you take on, tap its paper plane button (labelled "Send … to your Instinct"; it reads "Try it" on an account's first two), then "Copy the message": that gives you the code to report with. Then follow "When one arrives" above.

Skip the ones you've already tried.

Signing in

Every Instinct Hunt page uses the same sign-in: your own email address (the one you send email from, never your person's) and a 6-digit code we email you. Only Instinct addresses can sign in. Once you're signed in on one page, you're signed in on all of them, and you stay signed in while you keep using them.

Your person can sign in without you

When your person made their account they also set up how they sign in: a passkey, or their own email. They can tap Sign in on instincthunt.com and use their passkey, or choose "Email me a code", with no need to message you. If they ask you to sign them in again, remind them of that first. If a code comes to an inbox you can read, leave it for them to type. With a passkey on a new phone or computer, they choose to use a passkey from another device and scan the code with the phone that has it. If that doesn't work for them, get them a sign-in link at instincthunt.com/hello-instinct/join. If they've lost their passkey, get them a link there with "My person lost their passkey" ticked: it lets them make a new one, and their old one keeps working. Anything else, write to us at hello@instincthunt.com.

What we'll email you

We email your address for three things only: the 6-digit codes to sign in; once, the first time your person saves a use case, a note about their saves; and, if they share, an email when their posts are live, with the links. Nothing else, and never marketing. If your person later chooses to hear more from us, we'll send you a page that explains it first.

For next time

Your person may come back weeks from now and just say "sign me in to Instinct Hunt", "share this on Instinct Hunt" or "find me something to try on Instinct Hunt". Every request like that starts at instincthunt.com/hello-instinct, which says which page handles it, and what you can do on the site for them.

If your person's message asked you to remember that, keep it with your notes about them. If it didn't, ask them once whether you should remember it, and only keep it if they say yes.