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Show HN: Poll – Voting done simply in real time
- vxNsr 12y agoI'm seeing the same bug as everyone else: the pie covers the bottom edge. Win 8.1, Chrome (latest), 1366x768
- _kushagra 12y agoLooks really good but I found a visual bug — the graph overflows (on small resolutions?) http://d.pr/i/mQFV http://d.pr/i/mQFV Also, are the polls embeddable? I couldn't find any information about it on your page.
- adambutler 12y agoNot yet... it was built very quickly just yesterday... I will be fixing and adding (a limited amount) features over the coming weeks.
- hayksaakian 12y agoHow does this compare to strawpoll.me At first impressions, seems much the same.
- spindritf 12y agoPoll is a soon to be open-sourced project by Adam Butler Very cool. What's the stack?
- radq 12y agoLooks like Rails, Angular and Pusher to me.
- adambutler 12y agoYep... simple RoR app with Angular.js will be swapping out pusher soon for private_pub. I will open source it just as soon as I can do an audit of any major flaws :)
- ishener 12y agoIt would have been nicer if there would be comments or chat on the results page
- adambutler 12y agoI will be adding other features, but this will not be one of them. I built Poll because everything else made what should be simple far more complicated than it should be.
- piran 12y agoIt let me create a poll without typing a question or option. Might want to fix that :)
- codecurve 12y agoSeems the Pusher quota has been exceeded for the frameworks demo. Error : {"type":"WebSocketError","error":{"type":"PusherError","data":{"code":4004,"message":"Account over quota"}}}
- adambutler 12y agoI'm on it... I didn't quite expect so much traffic but wasn't going to let it ruin my lovely walk along Cheddar gorge today :)
- knes 12y agoSylvain from Pusher here. I just up the app quota for the time being since it currently using our free plan. The app should work fine now.
- ceejayoz 12y agoThat's pretty neat of you.
- NicoJuicy 12y agoGood PR. Didn't knew Pusher yet. Am i the only one?
- jkarneges 12y agoPusher's been around for some years. In fact they were one of the pioneers of "realtime-push-as-a-service". That said, the space is still relatively new (yes, there is a whole space! http://leanstack.io/realtime-backend-api http://leanstack.io/realtime-backend-api ). Most developers of realtime apps use their own hosting but are gradually warming up to the cloud.
- knes 12y agoas Jkarneges mentioned, we've been around for 3 years. Nowadays we don't usually target HN as a community so hence why you might not have heard of us. However, if you have any questions about our services or feedback, let me know here or on sylvain (at) pusher dot com.
- no_gravity 12y agoAwesome! There are currently no good "poll as a service" solutions out there. Not long ago, I searched pretty hard and tried all I could find. For a MVP I only miss one feature in your solution: The ability to add options later on.
- njovin 12y agoCheck out Wedgies - they've got a pretty slick product.
- adambutler 12y agoThat is a priority for me to be able to modify options... as I have said in other comments I just built this (very quickly in just one day) as I couldn't find anything that was elegant, free and required no registration. I expect to get modifying options in hopefully by Wednesday if I can find the time.
- adambutler 12y agoThat is a priority for me to be able to modify options... as I have said in other comments I just built this (very quickly in just one day) as I couldn't find anything that was elegant, free and required no registration. I expect to get modifying options in hopefully by Wednesday if I can find the time.
- arve0 12y agoShameless plug: I made a real time poller myself, in despair for the status quo a year ago (I'm a teacher student). You may try it here: http://feedba.ch/ http://feedba.ch/ Source code: https://github.com/arve0/feedbach https://github.com/arve0/feedbach
- unclebunkers 12y agoI like it, I made a similar one when playing with the javascript frameworks. However, outside of play, is Angular really the right choice here? 14kloc, for a poll? Seems rather excessive to me.
- olso4052 12y agoThats a good point - looks like it's built on Rails too. Switch this to Node and React and it'll smoke. With Node it would also be super easy to use websockets and remove the need for Pusher too. Not a big deal though - this is a really nice app. I just like talking about different frameworks and tools.
- unclebunkers 12y agoI agree, it's pretty slick. But the size would prevent me from using it on any mobile focused site.
- jaredstenquist 12y agoLooks cool. Only issue I had was the graph size. https://db.tt/1RqhMsk2 https://db.tt/1RqhMsk2
- motyar 12y agoChart on my mba 11 is broken. http://cl.ly/XsvS/Image%202014-10-05%20at%207.47.52%20pm.png http://cl.ly/XsvS/Image%202014-10-05%20at%207.47.52%20pm.png http://poll.lab.io/NxUvq0yzAL6zd_Dh7G1XGQ/results http://poll.lab.io/NxUvq0yzAL6zd_Dh7G1XGQ/results Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:30.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/30.0
- 1p1e1 12y agoShameless plug: I recently needed a super simple, clean and fast way to create a poll. Since I didn't find anything to fulfill my requirements, I built my own - http://tally.tl/ http://tally.tl/ And that's the poll question I wanted to ask: http://tally.tl/GQDy3 http://tally.tl/GQDy3
- lucastheis 12y agoI had the same problem and did the same thing a few years ago (http://polls.cc http://polls.cc). I wonder how many of these websites are out there.
- 1p1e1 12y agoThat's much better than everything I found during my short research. Well done!
- patrickryan 12y agoIf there was an option in Tally to hide votes so they don't influence decisions, it would be more useful. We used it at Techstars recently and didn't find the results very accurate. That said, it's very slick and simple, which I really liked.
- 1p1e1 12y agoThat's a very good point Patrick. It was intentional because I didn't want to add extra buttons and clutter the interface, but I might rethink it. It's always tricky to add functionality without sacrificing simplicity.
- adambutler 12y agoHad I known about this I probably wouldn't have built Poll... I just wanted something elegant that didn't require registration... Good work!
- chacham15 12y agoWhat about http://strawpoll.me/ http://strawpoll.me/ ? Is there something that your site does differently than that one? Heres the same poll at strawpoll: http://strawpoll.me/2716564 http://strawpoll.me/2716564 so you can compare. This site is commonly used at twitch.tv so that the streamer can ask the viewers a question, all results update in real-time. I have seen thousands of people use it simultaneously with no problem.
- transfire 12y agoNice.
- wanghq 12y agoThe interesting part is that a couple of similar services popped up in this thread and most of them are great but not well-known, so should we have a Hacker News Toolbox? Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8413016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8413016 Poll: http://poll.lab.io/dcla2GhYRr0lDLV7icEDMw http://poll.lab.io/dcla2GhYRr0lDLV7icEDMw
- xeirarcial 12y agoVery simply done. What were the lessons? What was the design process like?
- lackoftactics 12y agoI am really missing the copy link feature for my results and poll. When I was on the poll voting page I was just looking for this button to copy it and was suprised there wasn't any, you just get to used to that type of thing. But that's just small detail. I like how simple the ui is. Good work!
- geekingfrog 12y agoLooks nice, but the pie chart is really not a good choice. It's not clear at all which choice is the winner when some are close (among other things). Add an option to change to a bar chart or something else, or change the default please.