@nivo0o0 Thanks. Flashing GIFs are my spirit animal. Our Twitter feed is full of them Niv.

@iammarcthomas yes. brilliant response.

@nivo0o0 cheers, Niv. KNEW you'd like that one :)

@aexmo @dartemail That would be nice, verrrry nice. Gonna bring in @sgoudie to talk a little about API collaboration.

@thedimmick @dartemail @sgoudie nice one. v2.0 is a matter of weeks off, tonnes of new stuff and potential to hook into API's also

@aexmo @thedimmick @dartemail Sounds great! The public beta for our API launches in the next few months. Let's chat! DM me with your contact details and we'll find a time.

@neilcocker Diolch (thanks in Welsh for anyone who's uninitiated 😅). So thanks for the questions. 1) How do we differ from SurveyMonkey and Typeform etc? Actually we get asked this a lot. So one of the main points that we differentiate on is the anonymity of a poll. We never ask anyone for a login or a name. We believe that if you take the person's name and ID away from their response, they'll give a more honest response. That leads to better feedback. Also, we don't allow text entry. Research shows that when you ask someone to articulate their thoughts, they can actually find it quite difficult. The brain has separate parts that process language and decision making. 2) Celebrating Welsh football – We're always celebrating something about Wales. There's certainly been an increased use of the Welsh language here recently. Also our office looks right out over the route that the parade bus came on the other day. We were all dangling out of fourth storey windows cheering 🎉

@tadd31 Interesting question. There are a lot of different use cases, and we are always trying to balance between security, data fidelity, and the speed and ease of response. Without getting too technical, we limit the number of times a connection can respond which helps to stop automated responses. We're working on improving this area of our product all the time. If you'd like to talk more (and if you have insights you think are useful - we regularly hire consultants) then DM me with your contact details.

@sgoudie Thank you Samuel, it's good to know you already have something in place. I too had to ban some suspicious IP on some of my campaigns...

@bentossell @thedimmick Thanks for hunting us. 👯 We've been up and running for a little while now but we've only been in public release for about a month. We started doopoll in response to a problem we were having with some clients in the creative communications agency we used to run. Basically, mid level managers' decisions about a project we were working on with them were getting overruled by senior management for really arbitrary reasons. That didn't seem helpful because the team had considered their choices based on really good info only to be overruled by a CEO's personal tastes. We (@thedimmick, @sgoudie and I) built a prototype of doopoll in 4 days and it turns out a lot of people had similar problems that doopoll could solve. We're now in use in over 150 cities worldwide and have great users of all shapes and sizes. It's been so much fun so far. So pumped to be on product hunt today. ✌️🍵👯

Hm, proud polling Welsh startup. Are you gonna doopoll to exit the Great Britain? @bentossell @thedimmick

@kuolldev @thedimmick what a terrible idea

@kuolldev @thedimmick @doopoll yeah, unfortunately.

@bentossell Cheers for hunting! As @iammarcthomas mentioned, we're a global business based out of Cardiff, Wales. People have created polls on 6 continents (damn those Antarticans!) and we've had tens of thousands of people responding. We've grown the team from the 3 co-founders, with staff from Seville and Boston and in @rglover (of themeteorchef.com fame) we're in Chicago too. Between the six of us we speak five languages, so feel free to post up questions in English, French, German, Spanish or Welsh! A key differentiator for us is getting honest opinion from respondents. doopoll's completely anonymous; no app to download, no requests for emails or phone numbers, just click a link and provide your feedback. For today any questions on the product will be looked after by @sgoudie, anything around consumer usage, marketing and strategy by @iammarcthomas and enterprise and aob by me @thedimmick. So, AMAs all round... what do you wanna know?

@davelegion Thanks Dave 🙌 😎

@nickclement Whilst as a proud Welshman, I'd love for us to take all the credit, truth is we're 33% Welsh, 33% Americans, 17% Spanish and 17% English... 100% Global. The platform's currently available in French, Welsh and English (more languages coming soon!).

@nickclement @thedimmick Height of the Gwent valley ;)

@amienlockwood Hey Amie, for sure! So a couple of things here: 1) A poll template that you can use for 'Did you understand today's lecture' but obvs that can be applied to training contexts too: https://app.doopoll.co/poll/CWTL... 2) A lot of our users use doopoll for live events. There's some info here: http://doopoll.co/sector/event/ Happy to send you some other examples if you'd like?

@amienlockwood @mike_stone can give you some examples.

@amienlockwood @iammarcthomas Hi there Amie! Thanks for your question. Here are a few starter polls to get you going in the right direction. Just click the button at the top to have these polls recreated into your account. Here are the templates: dpll.co/paneldiscussion, dpll.co/delegatefeedback, dpll.co/posteventfeedback, dpll.co/eventexpectations

@mike_stone @iammarcthomas They look really good will definitely try you guys out during my next course.

@amienlockwood @iammarcthomas My pleasure, Aime! Always feel free to reach out if you need some more ideas :)

@anjali28 @thedimmick @doopoll @producthunt Anjali, thanks for the question. doopoll is not only a platform for running your live event although a lot of our users already use it for that. We love the idea that you can use doopoll in front of an audience of thousands (we've done live TV votes already) but also that small businesses can create polls that'll help them decide on their strategy for the future, or equally, kids being able to tell teachers anonymously that they're having problem getting the content of a lesson. That's really where we differ from other products that focus solely on events – everywhere you go, there are decision making processes that would benefit from giving people a voice and letting them answer easily. Hope that helps?

@craiginwales This is an interesting question! We'll won't ever require users to download a native app to answer a poll, but we have looked at some use cases for poll creators, such us a remote for controlling live results, or reporting on polls. Is there a specific use case that you would require a native version of doopoll for? Glad you like the interface! The next iteration is going to be even better!

@ajonit Ankur, we're really focused on making a better way to get more voices into decision making. Sure, Google Forms allows you to build a form. There are a few polling products out there. But we're really keen on getting it right so that it's as easy for people to participate as possible. Polls on doopoll all happen in real time – a lot of people like that functionality because if they see something happening from the live results, they can add a question without any of their respondents needing to press refresh in the browser. We think it's a great experience to take part in and use a doopoll. I hope you do too! doopoll is free to use up to 1000 responses per poll and you can make unlimited polls without paying us a penny. Hopefully that pricing is pretty attractive too 😅

@joshbeitler Thanks Josh, were using Meteor & MongoDB to run the app, and Blaze & React for the front end with a view to being full React in the next six months as we transition over. We're always looking for talented people to join our product team, so if any of that interests you DM me with your contact details 🙌

@blakerubin1 Thanks Blake!

@leedriscoll Hey Lee, Good to hear from you. Nice to see you found the powerups page (for anyone else http://doopoll.co/powerups/). So, some of the main use cases for the team pack at the moment are collaborating to create polls in multiple languages. For example, during the Euros one of our team could write a poll in English about the quarter finalists. They could then add another team member as a collaborator and that team member could create a duplicate poll in Welsh and simply translate the questions right away, safe in the knowledge that the poll structure and layout would be the same for everyone. They could then add another collaborator who could duplicate again and translate the poll to French. And so on... Another use case is when you have multiple topics to cover in a single poll. For instance if we were to send a poll to all our users I could create the poll and pop in some questions about Enterprise usage. I then add Marc and Sam as collaborators and they can add questions on Consumer usage and the Product sides of things accordingly. Hope that helps!

@owenthetwit Hey Owen. We have already have some great users in creative agencies. There are a lot of uses for doopoll in that area. Here's an example of a poll that you can use to measure the success of a campaign: https://app.doopoll.co/poll/MJTX... You can start with this poll by clicking the 'Create this poll for me' button and start using it as a template.

@owenthetwit Just to add; this was actually how doopoll came about. @iammarcthomas, @sgoudie and I were running a creative agency and needed something light and simple that we could send to a client's Marketing Director and have them pass on to the entire business to get EVERYBODY'S opinion and input.

@owenthetwit ❤️ 🙌 Glad you love the UI! We want people to enjoy using doopoll, not finding it a chore!

@owenthetwit Let me know if you want some more examples. Happy to provide ✌️

@benjystanton Nice question Benjy. Twitter polls are great for single questions when you're already a Twitter user. But still, a lot of people don't fit that profile. One of the things about doopoll is that you can add more questions to the same poll in real time – that's cool because it means you don't have to try to get a user to continually interact with your timeline. They just load a link and new questions appear as soon as they're added. Imagine being sat in front of your TV/Computer interacting with a live stream in real time. We're already working with television production companies to make this a reality.

@benjystanton Just to add, what @tdd and the team at twitter have done with twitter polls is great: it's not always an either or scenario :) We're working really hard to ensure doopoll plays real nice with twitter and other social channels.