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I recently launched my first web app, polls.io. It's a super simple polling app that doesn't require sign-up. In my opinion, this is the most simple/social polling app out there.

There are certainly many similar apps out there, but I think this one stands out as it straight-forward and doesn't have any unnecessary "mess" getting in the way of the actual poll.

From idea to inception this took about a week. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. We'll be listening to feedback in the coming days/weeks in order to make the proper changes.

I'd love to hear your guys' thoughts and feedback!

Here's a little sample poll:

Pancakes or Waffles? http://polls.io/cdrbe

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The radio buttons don't act properly... You can light up multiple buttons. The whole two-click-to-vote thing is probably unnecessary. Otherwise, nice, simple.

Pretty simple.

Are you trying to make a business out of this? Or is it just a project?

Clickable poll: http://polls.io/ugoht

Suggestions:

- It's not clear that after you select an option, you then have to also click "Vote" to apply your vote.

- Often in Polls, I don't want to vote. To avoid selection bias, you should allow people to view results without voting.

Just a project for now. I have a few things that I may add in the future that could turn it into something that might make money (maybe a daily featured poll?)

I doubt I'd ever put ads on the polls though.

I'm also looking into adding a stream page that will show all the recent polls created on the site. This will allow for polls to get some extra exposure.

I'd probably have to make sure it was optional though as people might only want to poll a private group of people and not have random people answering.

UX suggestion: Allow users to click on the answer, the whole row, not just the checkbox. See SurveyMonkey.

Noted. Thanks!

Looks quite nice. I like it.

For long questions, the polls don't wrap, and you end up with text on top of other text.

http://polls.io/ffc

Browser is Chrome on OSX Lion.

Thanks for the heads up. Working on fixing that up as well as less decimal places right now.

Should be done soon.

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