Show HN: Try Archetype 360 – AI‑powered personality test, 3× deeper than MBTI

Hi there, are you familiar with MBTI, DiSC, Big Five? Well I'm experimenting with a new kind of personality test, Archetype 360, and I'd love for you to try it for free and tell me what you think.

- 24 traits across 12 opposing pairs -- that's three times more dimensions than MBTI or DiSC, so you get a much more nuanced profile. - A unique narrative report generated with AI (Claude), written in natural language instead of generic type blurbs. - Your role, goals, and current challenges are blended into the analysis, so the report feels relevant to your real‑life context, not just abstract traits.

It's an "ephemeral app" so your report only lives in your browser, there's no login, and we don't store your data. Make sure you save the report as a PDF before you close the page.

What I'm looking for is honest feedback on your archetype and report:

- Did it feel accurate and "wow" or just meh? - Did you learn anything unexpected about yourself? - What did it miss or not go deep enough on?

I'll use your feedback to refine the prompts and the underlying model. Just comment here or use the feedback form in the app.

If there's enough interest, the next step is to combine Archetype 360 with a variation of Holland Codes / RIASEC (vocational interest areas) to create a full‑power professional orientation report.

What else would you love to see? Ideas welcome!

Best wishes, Daniel

It is interesting enough, but the report kind of feels very AI generated and generic. Most of the questions present the choices in a good vs bad way, i.e it sounds bad saying I disagree and sounds good when I say I agree. Other test usually have postive versions of both ends of the spectrum which is missing here. I also agree that there needs to be some validation of why these dimensions, how the correlated internally etc.

Hi Atiscant, thanks for the feedback. I rewrote the questions to avoid the good vs bad formulation, reduced the questions from 6 to 4, and I also simplified the dimensions from 12 to 8, so the result should be a tighter, better test. I need to wait until I get some data to validate, you were one of the first users, it will take some more time before I can do that. "the report kind of feels very AI generated and generic" - point taken, I will tweak the prompt to make a better use of the user's free text input in order to make it more personal - I mean thats the whole point of having an AI to help with the report. In your opinion, how many naturally recurring personality archetypes in the human population? With MBTI and 4 traits, its only 16, imho thats too few.

The dimensions seems very "profession"-oriented (as a contrast to other personality inventories that can also be used in professional psychology).

Questions:

1. Where did the 12 dimensions come from?

2. Are they ~independent (ie. don't have huge correlations making them redundant)?

3. Are they high-entropy? (ie. they split the population into roughly equal-sized groups and have predictive value)

Hi, Jaen, thanks for the feedback. Whether they are independent or high entropy, its too soon to say, its a new framework I conceived and I am not a psychometrist, I would need to get to 500 or 1000 to see the recurrence of archetype clusters. I see your point however, some of the concepts may overlap, I am going to bring it down to 8 trait pairs / dimensions. Hogan has 7 dimensions seems. In your experience, how many archetypes exist in the human population? with 4 trait pairs, thats only 16, with 12, thats above 3000. Must be somewhere in between.

>the next step is to combine Archetype 360 with a variation of Holland Codes / RIASEC (vocational interest areas)

Shouldn't the next step be actual validation (which looks nothing like asking people what they think about the reports)?

Without validation, it's just a nice-sounding horoscope.

You are right, Yodon. Validation needs a minimum of 500 or 1000 uses, no? And I don't have that yet. To get there I first need to get to a product that people find relevant, so any feedback is good feedback at this early stage. Based on what I got here, I am going to reduce the trait pairs from 12 to 8, and re-write the questions, and put less questions to make it quicker to complete, and tweak the report format. I'll publish a V2 in a few days. Thanks for the feedback.

> it's just a nice-sounding horoscope

Like meyers briggs, then

3x deeper than MBTI...

... that sounds horrible