Pollstop

Community driven platform for sharing questions and getting answers for them.

it is...

Features

  • Open source
  • Powerful Technologies
  • Minimal User Interface

Open Source

  • Completely open-source
    MIT licensed
  • Community driven
  • Fully customizable

Powerful Technologies

  • Powerful REST API (django)
  • PostgreSQL for scalability
  • Progressive web app with React & ES6
  • One-click login using Google
  • Continuous integration with TravisCI

Minimal User Interface

  • Responsive design for best experience
  • Single click voting
  • Results remains hidden until
    - poll is ended
    - user has voted
  • Easy sharing using share buttons for
    - facebook
    - twitter
    - etc.

A simple poll application

  • Create a poll (with choices and relevant tags)
  • Send link to friends, share it
  • People will vote, see results instantly
  • End poll whenever you want

basically

Extra Functionality

  • Ability to assign start and end dates
  • Ability to change your decision later

KISS UI

Allow users to naturally react to application without needing documentation.

 

Quickly view ongoing polls,

Vote them instantly.

 

No complex poll options before creating them.

FB/Twitter

  • In context, not mainly about polls, it is difficult to return back to a poll afterward
  • Unable to search polls by category
  • Results displayed in weird ways.
  • Vendor lock-in (you need to sign-in etc)

Pollstop

  • Only polls; questions and their answers in a simple user interface
  • Filter polls by categories
  • You can see results easily
  • No need to signup
  • Data-mining friendly

VS

Our Team

  • Omar Albeik (frontend/react)
  • Mert Akengin (backend/api/sysadmin)
  • Zafer Huzmeli (testing/?)
  • Atakan Senoglu (backend/testing)
  • Nihannur Yildirim (frontend/?)