Introducing SwiftPoll 1.1.0!
Hello Indiehackers! 👋
Are you tired of the old clunky polling apps that require sign-ins and have limited features? Look no further than Swiftpoll! ✨
Swiftpoll is designed and built from scratch. We've focused on simplicity and made it easy for you to create beautifully made images or text polls with configurable options like voting time windows, auto-deletion, comments, and anti-spam. As of build 1.1.0, Swiftpoll includes basic analytics that shows you and your team how your viewers have interacted with your polls.
For those curious, we manage our infrastructure and pipelines in addition to code. Swiftpoll uses some of the industry's best practices, and we have implemented a complete strategy from continuous integration (CI) to continuous deployment (CD). Swiftpoll has test automation, its custom GitLab runners, its Influx + Grafana monitoring stack, and a comprehensive collection of Ansible IaC (Infrastructure as Code) playbooks to manage everything from reconstruction test or production environments to deploying the latest frontend or backend release. Swiftpoll the app is built with Go, NextJS, Postgres, Couchbase, Docker, HAProxy, and Cloudflare.
Swiftpoll is a little under a month old on the internet with a visibility problem of "starting an engine"; Our visibility problem refers to few people knowing about the app. The analogy of the engine means like an engine in a car: for any new app to be successful, we believe it takes significant money, effort, and time to acquire the first customers to generate enough content until the app can sustain itself. Just as a car on a cold winter night needs extra fuel and an auxiliary starter motor to get the main engine running. We are looking for this magical auxiliary motor for Swiftpoll.
So far, we have just experimented with Twitter ad campaigns. Although Twitter has generated thousands of impressions for Swiftpoll, the click-through rate was low. We believe this may be because major social platforms already have polling features that do simple things Swfitpoll can do. Therefore people may not feel the need to click and visit Swiftpoll.
We have in mind a future where we engage with influential individuals and organizations that want to create polls with extra features and public polls that do not require viewer logins. To do that, we want to be able to find and work with people of influence, such as Instagram stars, Twitch streamers, or even college students conducting polls for their homework research.
What do you think about Swiftpoll? We'd love to hear your feedback! We're on a journey of discovery and building productive, human-centric tools that hopefully won't be crushed by AI (anytime soon). We're all ears and eager to hear your comments, suggestions, and anything that will help us improve and reach our goals!
For a fun example, please check out https://swiftpoll.net/j3Fx! Ready to create your own? Have a go at https://swiftpoll.net/new!
About Us
We're a small bunch of friends, one professional full-stack developer, and a few non-tech folks that love and enjoy hot pot and barbecue!
