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Please Review My New Site

21 points by BenSchaechter 16y ago

BenSchaechter 16y ago
Two others and I just launched http://gopollgo.com http://gopollgo.com a few days ago and its starting to pick up a bit of steam! There are two parts to it: There is the free, consumer side of the site for anyone to use. People can create, vote and comment on polls. Think of giving your Twitter followers a poll to vote on rather than getting a bunch of @replies. All polls can be embedded as widgets where javascript is allowed. If anyone from Twitter is reading, we'd love to be able to embed polls that slide out pane as well ; ) Soon we will be launching a premium, paid version ( http://gopollgo.com/images/marketing/analytics.png http://gopollgo.com/images/marketing/analytics.png ) where you can dive into your votes and segment data on a variety of mediums. The screenshot shows the USA, but we're collecting data for individual cities, counties, countries and will also have the ability to segment by arbitrary areas like political divisions, zip codes, or sales regions. Think of it as PollDaddy on steroids. I built this site because I was so fed up with PollDaddy. We hope to work with big brands on Twitter and websites with large amounts of traffic: Think FoxNews, CNN, and large technology/media blogs. I also hope to release an API at one point so that websites can easily integrate polls into their websites. All suggestions, comments, feedback, criticism more than welcome. I also would love advice for how to get this more publicity and users. Everyone seems to like it, but I just am having trouble getting it in front of people. I would appreciate it if you liked it, that you tell your Twitter / Facebook friends.
pedalpete 16y ago
Very nicely done. Nice and fairly clean looking site. Your animations upon answering are nice. I wasn't familiar with PollDaddy, so know nothing about this market, but on their homepage, they don't have a poll. They don't show me what it is like from a user perspective. I think you've done a nice job with the social sharing aspect. The widget is key with many brands, as is either a good look, or the ability for them to style it. The easier it is for them to set-up a poll and stick it onto their site, the better. I think you need to find a place that isn't using polls, yet where they would be a great fit. Engadget is always doing these "how would you change" http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/31/how-would-you-change-webos-2-0/ http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/31/how-would-you-change-webo... posts. The content fits into a poll, but they need the ability for their audience to suggest what the polling options should be. I never read those posts because it is just going through a bunch of comments, and you don't get any idea of what the cons are of the device. That could be very valuable information to the manufacturer. Of course, they'd still need comments, so hooking up with the disqus api would be a good idea. Just an idea.
- BenSchaechter 16y ago
  Thanks for the comments. Great advice! Very much appreciated!
- bricestacey 16y ago
  > I wasn't familiar with PollDaddy, so know nothing about this market, but on their homepage, they don't have a poll. They don't show me what it is like from a user perspective. gopollgo doesn't have one on their homepage either. The link is actually one to an existing poll. Try http://gopollgo.com http://gopollgo.com and you'll see. I do think you should add a poll on the homepage or at least a screenshot of one to draw users in. I love the site though. The UX is fun and engaging.
  - BenSchaechter 16y ago
    Thanks -- I'll definitely put one on the home page. Thanks for the feedback!
zinssmeister 16y ago
love the analytics feature preview. The site rocks!
vanni 16y ago
Solid UI and simple concept. Great job!

21 points by BenSchaechter 16y ago

Two others and I just launched http://gopollgo.com http://gopollgo.com a few days ago and its starting to pick up a bit of steam! There are two parts to it: There is the free, consumer side of the site for anyone to use. People can create, vote and comment on polls. Think of giving your Twitter followers a poll to vote on rather than getting a bunch of @replies. All polls can be embedded as widgets where javascript is allowed. If anyone from Twitter is reading, we'd love to be able to embed polls that slide out pane as well ; ) Soon we will be launching a premium, paid version ( http://gopollgo.com/images/marketing/analytics.png http://gopollgo.com/images/marketing/analytics.png ) where you can dive into your votes and segment data on a variety of mediums. The screenshot shows the USA, but we're collecting data for individual cities, counties, countries and will also have the ability to segment by arbitrary areas like political divisions, zip codes, or sales regions. Think of it as PollDaddy on steroids. I built this site because I was so fed up with PollDaddy. We hope to work with big brands on Twitter and websites with large amounts of traffic: Think FoxNews, CNN, and large technology/media blogs. I also hope to release an API at one point so that websites can easily integrate polls into their websites. All suggestions, comments, feedback, criticism more than welcome. I also would love advice for how to get this more publicity and users. Everyone seems to like it, but I just am having trouble getting it in front of people. I would appreciate it if you liked it, that you tell your Twitter / Facebook friends.

pedalpete 16y ago

Very nicely done. Nice and fairly clean looking site. Your animations upon answering are nice. I wasn't familiar with PollDaddy, so know nothing about this market, but on their homepage, they don't have a poll. They don't show me what it is like from a user perspective. I think you've done a nice job with the social sharing aspect. The widget is key with many brands, as is either a good look, or the ability for them to style it. The easier it is for them to set-up a poll and stick it onto their site, the better. I think you need to find a place that isn't using polls, yet where they would be a great fit. Engadget is always doing these "how would you change" http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/31/how-would-you-change-webos-2-0/ http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/31/how-would-you-change-webo... posts. The content fits into a poll, but they need the ability for their audience to suggest what the polling options should be. I never read those posts because it is just going through a bunch of comments, and you don't get any idea of what the cons are of the device. That could be very valuable information to the manufacturer. Of course, they'd still need comments, so hooking up with the disqus api would be a good idea. Just an idea.

BenSchaechter 16y ago
Thanks for the comments. Great advice! Very much appreciated!
bricestacey 16y ago
> I wasn't familiar with PollDaddy, so know nothing about this market, but on their homepage, they don't have a poll. They don't show me what it is like from a user perspective. gopollgo doesn't have one on their homepage either. The link is actually one to an existing poll. Try http://gopollgo.com http://gopollgo.com and you'll see. I do think you should add a poll on the homepage or at least a screenshot of one to draw users in. I love the site though. The UX is fun and engaging.
- BenSchaechter 16y ago
  Thanks -- I'll definitely put one on the home page. Thanks for the feedback!

zinssmeister 16y ago

love the analytics feature preview. The site rocks!

vanni 16y ago

Solid UI and simple concept. Great job!