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Show HN: 95 people voted for me to make this voting platform

fanfavorite.io

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Two weeks ago I had no idea what to make, so I made a website allowing anyone to anonymously submit and vote on project ideas. (https://oneweektomake.com)

The deal was that whichever project got the highest score by the end of week 1, I had to actually implement it by the end of week 2.

In week 1, 1.1K people visited, 48 ideas were submitted, and 1016 votes were cast.

Most of my visitors came from HN by the way, so thank you! (proof: https://simpleanalytics.com/oneweektomake.com)

The winning project idea was to "turn this into a platform". It had 95 upvotes, hence the title of this post.

In 8 days of manic coding, I created that platform: fanfavorite.io.

This lets anyone copy my voting page, with their own custom page that they are in charge of, just by filling out a form.

I'd love to hear your opinions on it!

I had a similar idea when trying to vote with friends on where to go out on a Friday evening (which bar). We used another tool that got the job done. The UI of yours is nicer, but I don't want to create an account for such a one off event. At least, make people fill the poll creation form before asking for sign-up. Make sign up optional, just to get the results by email. Maybe add a web notification button to get updates this way without sign-up.

Nice one! I built something similar a few years ago, and found the most difficult problem was how to prevent people from voting twice. You sort of get stuck between wanting people to just be able to vote but then also needing them to authenticate somehow to prove that they're only voting once.

Cool, can you link to prior projects you built?

Hi, thanks! oneweektomake.com is the precursor to this project, and I run a little random newsletter at peptalkto.me

i like it. cool idea

Thank you :)

I like the idea, but a heads up - the typewriter on the homepage meant the copy kept jumping around when reading on my phone. It made it incredibly frustrating, I’d recommend pausing that on mobile or when it’s out of view.

Yeah, that's really annoying, sorry about that! Thanks for the feedback

This is great, keep going!

I launched a voting website for domain name owners 2 weeks ago (https://peerideas.com) and it's hard work, but I encourage you to keep pushing ahead.

Add some moderation ability though.

Thanks for the encouragement! I checked out your site, I like how you've got the votes structured around the value of the domains instead of just something subjective

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