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Vote on real-time polls and analyze results by demographic to see how opinions shift.
dgerken · HN
I rebuilt my 2000s polling site with an AI running the editorial desk
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Vote on real-time polls and analyze results by demographic to see how opinions shift.
dgerken · HN
I rebuilt my 2000s polling site with an AI running the editorial desk

Vote on 15-second face-offs between people and see live crowd rankings.
arian_ · HN
Appealr – 15s live face-offs ranked by human votes (not AI)

Create a group availability poll, share one link, and see the best meeting time on a clear heatmap. Free, mobile-friendly, and no sign-up to respond.
@ktat93 · X
A lot of things actually: 1. (qrcode generator - $120mrr) 2. (analytics soon + monitoring) 3. 4. (~10k visitors)

Track real-time political sentiment analysis across the United States.
@ConnectedCoun · X
One example of what Brian means by “build and try out new things”: he recently vibe-coded a tech policy sentiment tracker to explore how AI can turn an idea into a working tool. Check it out:

Create private availability polls to find the best group meeting time without requiring accounts.
@Attalos__Life · X
Find a meeting time without the back-and-forth. FindOurTime auto-detects time zones, checks calendar conflicts from an .ics upload, and lets you schedule 15, 30, or 60-minute slots. No account needed.

Submit your startup idea to receive anonymous founder feedback through a 24-hour poll.
u/Competitive_Tune_590 · Reddit
Every "startup idea validator" is AI now. I went the other way — real founders vote on your decision, and they can't see each other's answers. Type "idea validator" into Google and everything on page one is an AI that reads your pitch and generates encouragement. I've tried them. The feedback arrives instantly, costs nothing, and changes nothing — it's a language model telling you what founders in its training data would probably say. So I built the opposite on my platform ( LaunchPact — I

Run live polls, quizzes, word clouds and forms your whole room joins from any phone. Pay once per event — no subscription.
@Suryansh_2001 · X
Just shipped Oratora today! 🚀 Would love to connect with other founders and builders. If you're up for sharing feedback, here's the link:

Vote on product features and see the public roadmap.
u/kaneki0dd · Reddit
Built SignalBoard a $15/mo Canny alternative for feature voting & roadmaps Been building this because Canny charges $79/mo for something that should be simple: let users vote on features, show a public roadmap, ship a changelog. https://preview.redd.it/h2x588h0n8dh1.png?width=1200&format=png&auto=webp&s=c5a4e15c59008ee67b495b7c35e1350d314e257b What it does: Feature voting — verify once, vote with one click after that AI duplicate detection — catches near-identical

Leaderboards where opinions are ranked by dollars, not votes. Post your take, put money on it, and hold the top spot until someone wants it more.
@ojasssethi · X
Will people really put their money where their mouth is? Let's find out together :) Worked on a quick experiment inspired by outbid.

Vote daily on 194 countries in a live global ranking, or bid to promote your nation.
@volkangunay_ · X
shamelessly inspired is the honest phrasing. same here. Vote Your Country for free:

Trade on real-time public sentiment markets for athletes, politicians, and cultural figures.
u/Maleficent-Ad-5181 · Reddit
got roasted, made some changes, ready to get roasted again A few weeks ago, we posted about our marketing, and we got the following feedback on our website: I visited your site and have no idea what it is that you do This site is garbage 🙂 Very confused on what the website is for. Ai slop I have no fucking idea what your company does or how any of what I’m looking at works. Discouraging? A little. BUT it was actually very helpful to hear some brutal feedback we hadn't heard ye

There are only 50 spots on the leaderboard. Rank is purely by bid. When it's full, outbid the lowest to kick them out.
@dhuvphogat · X
Interesting. We’re trying a limited version of this — only 50 spots.