Why Indie Polls exists

Most people who want feedback do not need a full blown research platform. They just need to ask a clear question and get reliable answers back.

If this sounds familiar, Indie Polls is for you:

• You are tired of forcing simple questions into complex survey tools.
• You want a poll that looks good enough to share with customers and followers.
• You do not want to build and host your own polling system from scratch.

Indie Polls focuses on this simple promise: Make it easy to ask, and make the answers easy to trust.

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Create a poll without friction

With Indie Polls, creating a poll feels like completing a short form instead of configuring a dashboard.

• Simple setup You give the poll a title, a short description, and the time window when it should be live. That is usually enough to go from idea to ready poll.
• Clear question types You can build single choice or multiple choice questions, add images when you need visuals, and require text input when you want free form feedback.
• Guided flow for participants You can optionally add an intro to welcome people and an outro to thank them or point them to the next step. This keeps the poll feeling like a small, self contained experience instead of a random form.

Once you save it, what you preview is exactly what your audience will see.

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Share links that people actually click

A tool is only useful if people respond. Indie Polls helps by giving you shareable links that look clean and professional.

• One click public link You get a short, readable poll link you can paste into emails, social posts, or community threads.
• Embed friendly link There is also a version of the link meant to be embedded. You can drop it into your website or product, so people can answer the poll without leaving your context.
• API friendly token Alongside these links you get an API token. This lets you automate tasks like creating polls from scripts, syncing results into your own dashboards, or tying responses to your existing user data.

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Add a poll to any page with a tiny widget

Sometimes you want feedback to live exactly where decisions happen, for example on a pricing page or inside your app.

For that, Indie Polls includes a lightweight JavaScript widget:

• You paste a short snippet with your poll token into your page.
• The widget renders a complete poll interface inline.
• You can control on which domains and paths the widget is allowed to appear.

Because the widget is small and focused, it loads quickly and stays out of the way of your main layout, while still collecting responses right where your users are.

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A voting experience that feels modern

If you want honest answers, the experience for your voters has to feel simple and respectful of their time.

Indie Polls is built with that in mind:

• Step by step questions People see one question at a time, with a small indicator that shows progress. This makes the poll feel light instead of overwhelming.
• Support for visuals You can attach images to questions or options, which is perfect for testing designs, logos, or product concepts. A preview modal lets people inspect details without reloading the page.
• Built in validation When a question requires a written answer, Indie Polls checks that the field is filled out before letting people move forward. At submit time, it confirms that every required question has an answer and explains clearly what is missing.

The result is higher quality responses and fewer abandoned polls.

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See what is happening as it happens

Indie Polls is designed so you can understand results quickly, even if you just open the page for a minute between tasks.

• Per question summary You can see how many votes each option received, what percentage of the total that represents, and a simple bar that makes the balance obvious.
• Personal view of results When you have already voted or are viewing as a logged in user, Indie Polls marks your own choices so you can see how you compare with everyone else.
• Text responses surfaced clearly When options collect text answers, Indie Polls stores them and makes them easy to review, so you can pull out quotes and ideas instead of just looking at numbers.

You stay focused on what matters: what people are actually telling you.

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Guardrails against noise and abuse

When a poll is public, you have to think about data quality. Indie Polls adds a few guardrails to help with that.

• Time and status control Each poll has a status and clear start and end dates. Outside that range, the poll cannot be answered, which prevents old links from collecting stray votes.
• Duplicate vote checks When you provide an external identifier or email, Indie Polls can detect and block multiple submissions from the same person, and return a clear response instead of silently accepting bad data.
• Feature access tied to subscriptions More advanced capabilities, such as sharing results publicly or integrating through the API, are available on paid plans. This keeps the service sustainable and ensures that the most powerful features are used in serious setups.

These pieces work together so that when you look at your charts, you can trust what you see.

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Made for small, fast moving teams

Indie Polls is not a generic enterprise survey platform and does not try to be one. It is built for:

• Product teams who want quick direction on what to build next.
• Indie founders who need to validate ideas and pricing with real people.
• Creators and community managers who want to involve their audience in decisions.
• Small companies that need a simple, nice looking polling tool they can integrate into their stack.

It stays intentionally light, with a modern interface, sensible defaults, and an API for when you want to automate.

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Where Indie Polls is heading

The current version of Indie Polls focuses on doing a few things very well. The roadmap extends that in practical ways, not with random features.

Planned improvements include:

• Additional question types for ratings and satisfaction.
• More integrations with tools you already use, such as Slack and email providers.
• Stronger analytics and filtering so you can slice results by segment or campaign.

Underneath all of that, the core idea remains:

Help you ask better questions and trust the answers you receive.

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Try Indie Polls on your next decision

If you have a decision coming up and you are not sure what your users or audience really think, try running a quick poll with Indie Polls:

• Draft a few clear questions.
• Share the link or drop the widget into your site.
• Watch the responses arrive, and let the data guide your next step.

Instead of guessing, you can move forward with confidence backed by real votes.

Indie Polls keeps all of these in one place, with copy buttons so you can grab what you need and move on.

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