We (two guys in a basement) have created AyeTap, a free tool that we hope will make democracy cheaper, more efficient and viral. To bring about civic and social

We (two guys in a basement) have created AyeTap, a free tool that we hope will make democracy cheaper, more efficient and viral. To bring about civic and social change. From deciding if your school should re-open or picking a venue for your band or putting a stop sign on your street. AyeTap will help people change their space, at a local level. Micro democracy. To fix the broken windows. Current petitions only show how many agree with something. It's like looking at a football scoreboard and only seeing what one team scored. And polls are everywhere (including here) but they aren’t actionable. We’ve been working on this for 7 years, mostly developing the language processing engine that’s the heart (more in #2 below and our search page). It understands that “I like ice cream’ is the same as “I really don’t dislike frozen yogurt even though my friends think so” On AyeTap, your phone number is your voter ID card and: 1. One person, one vote. Each voter is handpicked and can alter the ballot. 2. No duplicate polls. If you have multiple presential elections, you won’t know who won. On Twitter for every poll that says, “Trump is fake” there is another that says, “Trump is great”. So how do you tally them up? Our NLP engine knows that “Does Taylor Swift rock?” equals “won’t you agree that Tay Tay is not dull and boring?” and allow only one. But it ’ll know that “Does Taylor Swift rock?” is different from “does a swift tailor, rock?” even though every word is the same and allow both. Without NLP, we would be just another change.org petition. 3. Polls on AyeTap can be geo restricted, like a real election. To find out what New Yorkers think is the best solution to the city’s parking problems, you can restrict voting to New Yorkers. If Floridians or Russians vote, the results are meaningless. As it's only been the 2 of us, we haven’t had any feedback and would to hear your comments p.s. Our site is only available within the US