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Tally — Create tiny polls. No bullshit.
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@rrhoover Thanks Ryan!
And I would go for the hedgehog. There is something nerdy but nevertheless cool in those little fellows. :)
@bswen Tally's tiny server is definitely on heat. I'm trying to keep it afloat.
@rrhoover #TD4Hedgehog! Based on yesterday's two goat products, I thought goat would have made the tally too.
@filipminev One small bug: if I make any mistakes during the question-creation process and want to go back to edit, I can't because that's where you create the unique question URL. Maybe a keyup event on that field that creates a new URL and deletes any older ones if I edit the poll title?
Also, slight design suggestion: I wouldn't flip the arrow direction when the state of the voter is blue. Blue is enough of an indicator that I voted for that thing :)
Love this! Will definitely use it going forward
@zackshapiro thanks Zack! All fields are editable after you hit enter too. Just click on the question/answer and edit to your heart's content :)
@filipminev The question field isn't.
To recreate:
1) create a poll with the title "example poll"
2) URL will be generated
3) change title to "example poll?"
4) add an answer or two
5) paste the link from the URL bar into another windw
6) see title of poll is still "example poll"
Love how simple it is to create a poll. Reminds me of the poll site I used to run at polls.io
Like this. We've been exploring ways for people to drop super simple polls into their emails, so I like the simplicity of this execution...nice job!
@dskaletsky Thanks Derek! Your use case seems to be similar to Dylan's (@dhulser). Would you be interested in an embeddable version of this?
When creating a new poll, it doesn't automatically create the perma-link anymore :(
Love the minimalist approach to this. From a design perspective, I feel it's almost too simple though. When I was done my sample poll, I wasn't quite sure how to specify that I was done and how to share it. I didn't realize that all I had to do was share the link. Perhaps some small prompts to tell the user that the form is done and is shareable would be helpful.
@eriktorenberg Wedgies looks neat! I believe Wedgies offers a lot more than Tally. Tally is dead simple. No registrations, no lengthy setups, just votes. :)
Thanks for mentioning Wedgies @eriktorenberg! First off, I want to say that Tally is super awesome and clean. Nice work @filipminev. I would love to chat with you more about what you learned building this and as people use it. And offer any advice/learnings we can if it's something you want to keep working on.
The points of differentiating I can see are probably that 1) Wedgies results update in real time for both the voter and the owner 2) Ability to handle scale.
This might be secret sauce, but I'm glad to share. Any poll posted to a social network (and any content) is going to get the brunt of it's traffic/votes up front in the first minutes and then experience long tail voting over the lifetime of the poll. Dealing with that initial traffic kick and making sure the results of the poll is correct is really important. It's kind of a chicken and an egg problem. You don't want to build a robust, real time counting system until you need to, but you won't get users with bigger audiences using you until you do.
Ah, our designer just got really mad at me because I forgot to share this in my comment. This is a creation flow we tested a few months ago with a similar premise. Still requires hitting a submit button. I like the way Tally just creates the poll right there.
https://www.wedgies.com/anonask
This is great -- Love how simple it is. Is there a way to embed one on your own site?
@filipminev Awesome, we're always looking for new things to embed within our sponsored headlines, this could be cool.
@dhulser That sounds great, let's do this! Please do shoot me an email at filip.minev@gmail.com
Howdy fellow product hunters!
I built Tally because I couldn't find a poll tool which was both super simple and clean. Let me quote James Murphy: “The best way to complain is to make things.”
Plus I wanted to figure out what are the biggest challenges fellow startup founders are struggling with, therefore: http://tally.tl/GQDy3
If you would have any questions, please do shoot.
It seems to be buggy. Love the simplicity. I got stuck attempting to complete the form. Nothing happened.
Update: I get it now. It's done on the fly. Just grab the URL. However, this is a problem in-of-itself. It has become really simple based on the mental model of a developer.
I'd recommend some extra language or interaction design to push "everyone else" in the right direction.
Love this - near perfect. Only tweak: do not reveal previous vote tallys until AFTER vote is cast. Otherwise you really get skewed results fed from previous votes cast.
@filipminev any plans for the poll to update in real-time? the original product we actually built 2 1/2 years ago was a super simple poll based off of node.js - when anyone voted, the poll would change in real time across all screens/open connections. was interesting then and still interesting today. =D
@taylorhou That is definitely something I would love to add! Real-time apps always excite me. :)
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