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Nice app. I like your implementation -- particularly how you encourage users to make their own polls with the orange notification. I recently built a surprisingly similar polling application. Check it out below:

Is Starbucks coffee better than Peet's coffee?

Yes: http://grok.io/yuc No: http://grok.io/nuc

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I think the "take another poll!" call to action is a good idea for keeping people engaged, assuming there's content. Grok.io needs that - so far it's more concentrated on answering a question accurately than surfacing more questions for a user. The map is cool too - it'd be even neater if you inferred location based on IP address.

(I've worked with Blake on grok.io a bit.) Shall we try:

Is grok.io's forecasting model going to be more successful's than gopollgo.com's consensus model? Yes: http://grok.io/yuS No: http://grok.io/nuS

Yup. Once we actually are public and people are making polls, I think "take another poll!" will be very interesting.

We actually do infer location based off of IP address and a few other things.

Grok.io is cool. I like the look and feel of it.

We should chat. Feel free to shoot me an email listed on my profile.

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