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by sofixa 1608 days ago
That looks great!

I have a question though - why not switch to a more appropriate platform? When with a bunch of friends we were sick from WhatsApp's lack of features, we moved to Telegram which has polls and a few other goodies. It seems less effort that actually developing a polls for WhatsApp thing, although i can absolutely see how that would be fun to do. Good luck with the Pro version!

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I agree, however it’s difficult to move everyone. There are so many groups - family, friends, founders, batchmates, etc. Until WhatsApp brings native polls this problem will exist.

As a developer, building a solution was way more fun than nagging people to move to a different platform. Haha.

Btw this is not really bound to WhatsApp. You can use it to share your poll everywhere. I have seen some polls getting upto 14k votes!!!

People use it to gather data on smallest things like what is a good time for going out to who do you prefer in the local elections.