I've been wanting to learn RoR(or any framework outside of php/flex), so I picked something to actually build.<p>http://www.thatpoll.com<p>It's a quick and easy site to create and answer polls/questions. The main use I see for it is in blogs, where you can easily embed the poll into a blog.<p>I rarely comment on somebody's blog, but I read a ton of them and I figure the majority of people do something similar. With a 1-click answer poll, you can still get some sort of feedback from your audience.<p>Here is an example of one of my polls in tumblr & blogger:<p>http://markdimarco.blogspot.com/
http://icepack.tumblr.com/<p>I'd love some feedback on it.<p>I'm rubbish at web design, but I've been hearing "Release early and Release often" a lot lately, so here's to that.
Good concept, and very simple to use (which I believe is more important than web design, at least in the early stages).<p>Not having a website, I can't test the usability. I imagine you might encounter some resistance to inserting the look & feel of your polls onto the look & feel of their site, but you're serving a niche seeking a quick & dirty poll tool and I think this does the trick very nicely.<p>The public / private poll was also an excellent thought.<p>Edit: Created a poll - <a href="http://thatpoll.com/questions/14" rel="nofollow">http://thatpoll.com/questions/14</a> - and I like how readily it shows which polls you've answered, and how.<p>Is there a way to see the results of polls you haven't answered (say, aren't qualified to but are interested in?)
That looks like an excellent idea and very well executed. I really liked that it literally only took 1 click to vote (as opposed to usual where you have to click the radio input, and then click a submit button).<p>I have two suggestions for it:<p>1. Make it an embeddable javascript widget instead of an iframe. I think it would be more universally acceptable, and anyone could then simply use CSS to stylize the poll however they please.<p>2. I don't know if you do this already or not, but maybe track IP addresses of those who vote and geocode them onto a map or something. Comments usually have names to go along with them, it would be nice to have some sort of vague automatic identification to go along with the votes.