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Show HN: Polltime – Polls that can be texted

34 points by jajoosam 8y ago

danethan 8y ago
Found a security loophole.Polltime stores your location data and emails visible publicly. https://ibb.co/eh7vG7 https://ibb.co/eh7vG7
zanedb 8y ago
Nice job! I'm consistently impressed by your work ethic
giancarlostoro 8y ago
I had coded something similar for TADHack 2018[0] we didn't get it as cleanly as this but we got it working enough to demo. I haven't had a good chance to post our original code yet though. Looks nice, would love to know about the back-end stack used. We used Flask / MongoDB for ours. [0] http://blog.tadhack.com/2018/03/12/tadhack-mini-orlando-2018-winners/ http://blog.tadhack.com/2018/03/12/tadhack-mini-orlando-2018... Ours is Poll IO (terrible name I know...)
- speps 8y ago
  > Ours is Poll IO (terrible name I know...) Maybe you can make a come back thanks to anti-vaxxers.
  - giancarlostoro 8y ago
    Yeah... It was between Poll IO and Git Poll...
- jajoosam 8y ago
  I don't have much of a backend, just Express for form processing. For a quick setup DB, using https://github.com/bluzi/jsonstore https://github.com/bluzi/jsonstore
  - giancarlostoro 8y ago
    Yeah I used MongoDB cause it was just a quick apt-get install away and I was ready to use it. I have not had the pleasure of using Express yet but I'm sure I will at some point.
1023bytes 8y ago
Why not just use Strawpoll?
- jajoosam 8y ago
  With polltime you get unique links for each option, meaning people can see options before the click on a link to vote - I think this would increase response rate, but no data to back that
encoderer 8y ago
Simple, clean, gets the job done. Have you thought about adding a box on homepage to text me an example to my phone? Probably with reassurance that the number won’t be saved and used again.
jscholes 8y ago
I'm a bit bewildered. I've created a pole, which takes me to a page with the question and options to vote or view the results. Am I then supposed to text that to my users for them to click the links? I was expecting your site to send out the texts and accept the options as replies.
- jajoosam 8y ago
  Yeah you're supposed to send the links yourself, It's mainly meant for personal use on group chats.
4684499 8y ago
Reminding me of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16915858 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16915858

34 points by jajoosam 8y ago

Found a security loophole.Polltime stores your location data and emails visible publicly. https://ibb.co/eh7vG7 https://ibb.co/eh7vG7

zanedb 8y ago

Nice job! I'm consistently impressed by your work ethic

giancarlostoro 8y ago

I had coded something similar for TADHack 2018[0] we didn't get it as cleanly as this but we got it working enough to demo. I haven't had a good chance to post our original code yet though. Looks nice, would love to know about the back-end stack used. We used Flask / MongoDB for ours. [0] http://blog.tadhack.com/2018/03/12/tadhack-mini-orlando-2018-winners/ http://blog.tadhack.com/2018/03/12/tadhack-mini-orlando-2018... Ours is Poll IO (terrible name I know...)

speps 8y ago
> Ours is Poll IO (terrible name I know...) Maybe you can make a come back thanks to anti-vaxxers.
- giancarlostoro 8y ago
  Yeah... It was between Poll IO and Git Poll...
jajoosam 8y ago
I don't have much of a backend, just Express for form processing. For a quick setup DB, using https://github.com/bluzi/jsonstore https://github.com/bluzi/jsonstore
- giancarlostoro 8y ago
  Yeah I used MongoDB cause it was just a quick apt-get install away and I was ready to use it. I have not had the pleasure of using Express yet but I'm sure I will at some point.

1023bytes 8y ago

Why not just use Strawpoll?

jajoosam 8y ago
With polltime you get unique links for each option, meaning people can see options before the click on a link to vote - I think this would increase response rate, but no data to back that

encoderer 8y ago

Simple, clean, gets the job done. Have you thought about adding a box on homepage to text me an example to my phone? Probably with reassurance that the number won’t be saved and used again.

jscholes 8y ago

I'm a bit bewildered. I've created a pole, which takes me to a page with the question and options to vote or view the results. Am I then supposed to text that to my users for them to click the links? I was expecting your site to send out the texts and accept the options as replies.

jajoosam 8y ago
Yeah you're supposed to send the links yourself, It's mainly meant for personal use on group chats.

4684499 8y ago

Reminding me of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16915858 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16915858