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.
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.
@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.
@jimmyjacobson Thank you Jimmy! I'll keep you posted. :)
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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.
@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
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