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Show HN: Buzzngo.io – Real-time public polls using RethinkDB

60 pointsby lionpixelalmost 7 years ago

12 comments

lionpixelalmost 7 years ago
Hi HN,<p>my name is Basti, and I would like to showcase our project Buzzngo with you. Our system is running with RethinkDB under the hood and although the company behind it faded away we still think it&#x27;s a nice tool to power real-time statistical analysis.<p>Our tests in Frankfurt, Berlin and Hamburg (Germany) were great collecting thousands of votes during a sunny day. Feel free to sign up if you want to start public polls in Germany&#x2F;Europe in the near future.<p>Happy to hear your opinion!<p>Greetings Basti
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degeneratealmost 7 years ago
You should create a sample poll and link to it, so we can try it out. I&#x27;m not going to register for something to demo it.
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honkycatalmost 7 years ago
Try to back up and restore a large ( a table with a million rows ) rethinkdb database and tell me about how much you love it.<p>Used rethinkdb for my start up. It is a curse.
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nbclarkalmost 7 years ago
Lots to like here.<p>&gt; RethinkDB is a wonderful db. Did you guys use Horizon on top for streaming? Or something custom? &gt; Wonderful design asethetic<p>Seeing as you&#x27;re based in Frankfurt, I&#x27;d recommend reaching out to events hosted locally as live polling is a pretty common ask.
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gitgudalmost 7 years ago
Love the idea! but was a confusing explanation. So a station is an hardware input to the poll? Can you vote online too?<p>A cool idea would be to have hardware as an output too. I can imagine a political campaign wanting an LED screen with a live poll count.
dillondoylealmost 7 years ago
Two of the example polls in the site screenshot are political (us 2020, cannabis).<p>I&#x27;m wondering how you get background demo info on poll participants?<p>I think it could be interesting to think about using visual cues from video (gender, age) but what about info like is registered to vote or other demographic info.<p>I don&#x27;t see example of the hardware but I&#x27;m guessing this is like those smiley face poll stations in that it just collects a simple response and doesn&#x27;t collect say first, last, address, birthday etc?
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zengidalmost 7 years ago
Glad to see RethinkDB is still getting some use!
dyejealmost 7 years ago
Surprised to see no mention of security. How do you prevent people from messing with the polls? Physically or digitally.
djsteinalmost 7 years ago
really love your guys styling. is it all custom?<p>Maybe its so much text in one space, or maybe the cool animation in the background, or maybe just my tired eyes, but I&#x27;m having a bit of trouble focusing on what to read in the top section. I am not immediately faced with the value prop because there is so much content!
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kobollalmost 7 years ago
Isn&#x27;t there quite a bit of selection bias involved in who is willing to walk up and vote at a kiosk?
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pdappollonioalmost 7 years ago
No demo?
sergiotapiaalmost 7 years ago
Tangent but this is quite funny hahaha<p>&gt;Now, create a poll for that campaign. For example, &quot;Donald Trump or Kanye West?&quot;<p>&gt;In our example, we could place the station near a university to get insights from academic people.
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