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Eryk Subhan • Peerlist

<h3>VoteGenerator is a free online poll and survey maker built on one constraint: neither the person creating the poll nor the people answering it should need an account.</h3>Type a question, add options, share a link. No signup, no email, no app. Works on any device.<h3>## Why it exists</h3>Team votes kept landing on options most of the team didn't actually want. That turns out not to be bad luck — it's what single-choice voting does once there are more than three options on the ballot.So I simulated 660,000 group votes to measure how often it happens:- With five options, the single-choice winner holds no outright majority 84.3% of the time- Single-choice and ranked choice pick different winners in 28.7% of five-option votes, rising to 43.2% at eight- The two-thirds rule: a group who prefer similar things loses unless they hold more than 66.7% of the vote, because their support splits- Disagreement stays around 28% whether the group is 6 people or 100 — group size barely matters, the number of options doesThe methodology and simulation code are published, seeded for reproducibility, so anyone can check the numbers.<h3>## What it does</h3>Eight poll types- Multiple choice, single or multi-select- Ranked choice with instant-runoff counting, showing every elimination round- This-or-that head-to-head comparison- Meeting scheduling across time slots- Rating scales — 1 to 5 with star, heart, thumb, fire or smiley icons, across multiple aspects- RSVP attendance tracking- Image polls- Multi-question surveys with configurable 0–10 and 1–10 numeric scalesAutomatic NPS scoring. A 0–10 question segments responses into Promoters, Passives and Detractors and calculates the score.120+ editable templates across HR, customer feedback, education, events, healthcare, property, community and procurement.Native Slack app — slash commands, voting inside the message with results updating in place, AI poll generation from a plain-language description, and recurring polls that post themselves on a timezone-aware schedule so a Monday pulse fires at 9am in each person's own local time.Server-side anonymity. Anonymous Mode is opt-in per poll and enforced on the backend rather than hidden in the UI. When enabled, device type, country, region and referrer are never collected — not collected and hidden — and timestamps are stored as dates, so responses can't be re-identified by arrival order.Sharing by link, downloadable QR code, or iframe embed. Results update in real time.<h3>## Technical notes</h3>Built as a Vite multi-page app with React 18 and TypeScript, deployed on Netlify. Backend is ~30 Netlify Functions with Netlify Blobs as the only datastore — no separate database, which suits a workload that's mostly key-value reads and writes.Instant-runoff counting runs server-side: count first preferences among continuing options, check for a majority of continuing ballots, eliminate the lowest with deterministic alphabetical tie-breaking, redistribute, repeat. Each round is recorded so the results view can replay the whole count.<h3>## What it isn't</h3>Not a live-presentation tool — no word clouds or projector mode, so Poll Everywhere and Mentimeter fit that better. No skip logic or cross-tabulation, so it won't replace a research platform. And not built for legally binding elections; for board votes or union ballots, use a purpose-built platform.<h3>## Pricing</h3>Free forever — 3 active polls, 100 responses each, all 8 poll types, 30-day duration. No credit card, no trial.$19/month billed monthly · $16/month billed annually ($190/year) — 10,000 responses per poll, unlimited polls, CSV export, custom short links, one-year duration.$49/month billed monthly · $41/month billed annually ($490/year) — 100,000 responses, white-label embeds, single-use access codes, domain restriction.Flat per account, not per seat. No per-response overage charges. No ads on any plan.Solo founder. Launched 2025.