BenSchaechter

Clickable: http://gopollgo.com/widget

Nico made us an awesome logo! Thanks Nico!

Sadly, there is no way to do this. We may roll this out in the future -- but you're the first person to bring it up. If we see a higher demand, we'll definitely consider it.

Thanks! We've worked really hard on the UI as a whole.

Thanks jarcoal,

We're planning on implementing a scroll bar -- we just don't really enjoy the default browser ones and are going to have a custom-built one soon in JavaScript.

Thanks!

Right now we're targeted the size to fit the majority of most common blog platforms. We'll probably roll something out soon to pass in a param to get your own sizes. The problem is resizing the analytics gets tough.

We will probably have the ability to turn on/off certain reports pretty easily if its really requested.

We also plan to implement branding VERY soon. And we're going to give it away for free. Feel free to follow @GoPollGo on Twitter for relevant updates.

Thanks jjacobson,

Right now we're doing an iFrame because we wanted to get something out the door. The way we've built them is so that we can constantly update and polish the widget as issues arise. There is a possibility of it moving over to pure javascript at one point -- but not for the foreseeable future.

Clickable: http://gopollgo.com/widget

Shameless plug:

I love the simplicity of HN polls, but if you use GoPollGo, you can see votes segmented by different countries/states/district. Soon we'll be adding the ability to split votes by age/gender/browser/os/referring website.

Example: http://gopollgo.com/the-company-you-choose-remains-the-other...

Palo Alto, CA -- http://gopollgo.com/about/jobs

GoPollGo is looking for talented Rails developers to help us innovate in the polling/survey space. This will be employee #3 and is a full-time salaried position with options. We're also looking for a stellar visual graphic designer -- full time salaried w/ options as well.

No remote workers right now -- sorry.

I find http://activeadmin.info/ to be a much more effective solution.

Yes, but GoPollGo gives better analytics and is real-time.

=)

tenderlove, I don't know you and probably never will -- but thanks for all your hard work. Seriously.

Working on http://gopollgo.com -- would love any and all feedback!

Coming from a single founder almost a year in: Get a Co-Founder. You will have probably more than double the output, someone to bounce ideas off of, and a more sane life.

Checkout http://gliffy.com

As a previous(albeit short-lived) developer at TechCrunch -- I approve.

If you ever need to run a poll with location data -- please feel free to use my site: http://gopollgo.com -- we give awesome reports and location data all free of charge.

We'll be adding support internationally soon.

Yup, we're using Socket.IO.

Hm, this is a problem. We'll take a look at it. Thanks for the heads up.

Our goal was to make something where you can ask quick questions on Twitter and get quantitative responses back instead of sifting through @replies.

We want to have accounts with lots of followers start using our polls to quickly and easily get feedback from their followers and then be able to segment the votes accordingly.

Think of if CNN could ask a question about a current topic and instantly get feedback. Much better than thousands of @replies.

Fair enough. I apologize -- we didn't think about this enough and will change it this weekend. Thanks for the feedback.

Great feedback. We just launched this today and honestly didn't expect it to be #1 on HackerNews. We're going to start grouping the messages together and less often so they aren't as distracting like:

"Bensign, Bob, Joe & 17 others just joined the page".

Our team will be rolling out fixes very soon.

I was surprised that so many people were thrown off by this. We want to do more cool visualizations in the future with this sort of data.

We'll make a decline to disclose at one point. Sorry about that.

Node is holding up just fine. About 600KB of memory. It is a beast. It is our first go with it and it was great!

If you're looking for a few quick poll questions, take a look at http://gopollgo.com

Palo Alto, California - Ruby on Rails / Javascript Hackers

GoPollGo.com is building a better polling and survey service. We've got great office space, great salaries, very generous options and a kick-ass team so far.

Join us!

No freelancers or remote works right now. We also cannot support visas.

Email us @ jobs@gopollgo.com!

We're currently in hiring mode and finding talent is super tough. You need people who are not only a good fit (hard enough) but are willing to leave their cush jobs, join a startup no one has heard of and believe in your vision.

Some things we've tried:

- Scouring Dribble for Designers: I built a system that allows me to search Dribble by location, then pull up all the relevant shots of people from the locations I type in. A bit of scraping work, but so much more efficient now.

- Pinging people on Forrst. I've met with a bunch of people off of Forrst. You can hack some URLs to find all people from a particular location.

- LinkedIn. I've never once used or enjoyed LinkedIn until I've had to hire people. Their search is actually pretty awesome for recruiting. Actually getting people to respond is harder.

- Emailing local universities. Finding fresh talent out of school. Sending emails to CS listservs.

Finding people is so tough. Its the hardest part of a startup I've had to do so far.

Obligatory shameless plug: Let me know if you're interested in an early employee gig in Palo Alto doing Ruby development + a bunch of awesome statistical graphing / information mining.

I live within walking distance of downtown Palo Alto and really enjoy it. It's cheaper than San Francisco in most instances and you still have a high concentration of startup people. You can't go more than a few blocks without seeing a YC-er.

Of course, you don't have the massive social scene of San Francisco, but you're a quick ~30 minute CalTrain ride away.