Scenario: Let's say your either starting a club, company, or just meeting someone new and you want to mutually land on a vision statement or aligned set of principles about whatever the goal of that club might be.<p>One interesting way to go about this would be to maybe have everyone fill out a survey, or write their own little manifesto, and keep the results secret, and then simultaneously reveal everyone's results to everyone else at a pre-determined future date.<p>The easiest way I can think of to do this would be to just have everyone write a Word/GoogleDoc/Text doc of some kind, and have them literally drag it into a Dropbox/Drive/iCloud folder at the same date and time.<p>However, I'm wondering if there is a tool out there that would make this more fun, and done in such a way that any individual who just wants to get it done ahead of time can do so, and let the software do the reveal?<p>Is there any kind of cool, "Simuldrop," tool or method that anyone out there has built or uses? A web-based tool would be cool and have the widest reach, but any suggestions for command-line tools, technical solutions could be interesting as well of course because after all...this is hackernews.
So one idea I have thought of since I wrote this, which is a bit janky:<p>1. Start a free Dropbox account, create a public upload folder and share said upload link with everyone in the group.
2. Start a throw-away Gmail account, schedule an email containing the username and password to the Dropbox folder to all of the club users for a future date, <i>X weeks</i> in the future.
3. Logout of the dropbox and Google account, throw away the passwords to both.<p>As long as the email from the throw-away gmail account goes through, then everyone gets the time-capsuled password to Dropbox at the same time and can then log-in to Dropbox at their leisure to view the documents.<p>Obviously this solution is for a small, very-trusted group and doesn't scale, and has other security problems and the risk of losing everything.<p>Edit: Also found this, a bit old-school, Windows-based, PC-based solution, not really a modern tool designed to work over the web/internet it seems. <a href="https://www.jensscheffler.de/filelocker" rel="nofollow">https://www.jensscheffler.de/filelocker</a><p>There also appears to be a standard way of locking files in bash, which could be used to cobble together a solution where perhaps a file could be maybe scp'd into a server, locked upon upload, and then perhaps the directory unlocked at a pre-determined date for all users, but that seems like it would require a lot of thinking and building and sys-admin manual labor. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1715137/what-is-the-best-way-to-ensure-only-one-instance-of-a-bash-script-is-running" rel="nofollow">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1715137/what-is-the-best...</a>
With <a href="https://www.mentimeter.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.mentimeter.com/</a> you can create polls, surveys, quizzes. Partipants connect with their mobile phones and the presenter can then show everything at the same time on screen. That's a tool school teachers use. <a href="https://kahoot.com/schools/how-it-works/" rel="nofollow">https://kahoot.com/schools/how-it-works/</a> but not sure about surveys. I've used it for a quiz.