Why another polling tool?

If you have ever tried to validate an idea, ship a new feature, or understand what your audience actually wants, you have probably hit the same wall:

• Traditional survey tools are overkill for a simple "Which option do you prefer?".
• Most embeddable widgets look out of place on your site.
• Self hosted options take time and development effort you do not have.

Indie Polls was born from that frustration. The goal was simple: Ask better questions. Get cleaner answers. Stay out of your way.

No clunky dashboards. No twenty step setup. Just fast, focused polling.

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Create a poll in minutes, not hours

The poll builder in Indie Polls is designed to feel like filling in a form, not configuring a rocket.

• Clean poll editor: Give your poll a title and description, choose start and end dates, and you are basically ready to go. No hidden advanced tabs, no maze of settings.
• Flexible questions: You can create single or multiple choice questions, attach images to options, and even require free text input for "Other, please specify" style answers.
• Optional intros and outros :Add an intro heading and text to set context before people start, then close with a custom "Thank you" or next steps message. You can keep it as lightweight or as polished as you want.

Every change is saved in a structured way, so the poll your audience sees looks exactly like what you preview.

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Beautiful links you can share anywhere

Once your poll is ready, Indie Polls gives you copy ready links right in the app.

• Public share link: A clean URL like https://indiepolls.io/polls/XXXXX you can drop into newsletters, social posts, Slack or Discord communities, and customer emails.
• Public embed link: Use the embed link to load a widget directly on a landing page or inside your app. It respects your site typography and colors as much as possible, looks good in both light and dark mode, and stays fast and unobtrusive.
• API token for automation: fans If you are an engineer, you also get an API token so you can integrate polls into your own workflows, create or fetch polls programmatically, and plug results into your internal dashboards.

From the poll header, you can copy all three (API token, share link, embed link) instantly with one click, without hunting through settings.

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Drop in embeddable JavaScript widget

Sometimes you do not want to send people away to a poll. You want it to live right where they already are.

Indie Polls ships with a tiny embeddable JavaScript widget that you can drop into any website with just three lines of code.

Paste the snippet, point it at your poll, and the widget renders a fully interactive voting experience inline, without page reloads or layout issues.

You can even restrict where it appears by whitelisting specific domains and paths, so a poll only shows up on, for example, your pricing page or a specific blog post. It is a very fast way to add focused, on page feedback without dragging a heavyweight survey tool into your stack.

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A smooth voting experience for participants

Polls should not feel like tax forms.

The public voting page in Indie Polls is built to be frictionless.

• Single question flow: Participants move through one question at a time, with a clear "Question X of Y" indicator. It feels more like a conversation than a spreadsheet.
• Image rich options: You can add images per question or per option for visual choices such as product mockups, design variants, or branding concepts. Images open in a preview modal on click, so people can inspect details without leaving the page.
• Smart validation: If a question needs a free text answer (for example, an "Other" option), Indie Polls makes sure it is filled in before moving on. At the end, participants cannot submit until all required questions are answered, and the interface explains what is missing in plain language.

The result is more complete responses and fewer "I will finish this later" drop offs.

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Real time, honest results

Once responses start coming in, Indie Polls helps you understand them at a glance.

• Per question breakdowns: For each question you can see vote counts per option, percentages, and clear visual bars.
• Highlight "Your vote": When you are viewing results as a participant or authenticated user, Indie Polls highlights your own choices, so you can see how you compare to everyone else.
• Text answers where it matters: For options that collect free text responses, Indie Polls stores and surfaces what people actually typed. It is useful for mixing qualitative feedback into quantitative polls.

You can choose whether results are visible to everyone, just to you, or hidden entirely. It is your poll and your rules.

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Thoughtful limits and anti spam guardrails

Because Indie Polls is designed for serious use, not bot farms:

• Votable state: Polls have statuses and start and end dates. Once a poll is outside its valid window or manually closed, it simply is not votable anymore.
• Duplicate submission checks: With an external_id or email, Indie Polls can block repeat votes and return standardized errors, so your data stays clean.
• Subscription aware access: Some advanced features, like public sharing and API access, are gated behind subscriptions, ensuring the service can stay sustainable and well maintained.

You focus on the question and the audience. Indie Polls quietly handles the integrity.

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Built for indie creators and small teams

Indie Polls is not trying to be a very large enterprise research platform. It is intentionally:

• Lightweight, with no giant onboarding or certification to use it.
• Developer friendly, with predictable URLs, a clean API, and sensible responses.
• Design conscious, with modern components, good defaults, and dark mode support.

It is a good fit for product teams voting on roadmap priorities, creators testing new content formats with their audience, indie founders validating pricing pages or landing page variants, and communities gathering a quick consensus before making a call.

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What is next for Indie Polls

This is just the start. On the near term roadmap you will find:

• More question types, such as rating scales and NPS style questions.
• Deeper integrations, including Zapier, email, and potentially CRM hooks.
• Better analytics and filtering for power users.

But the core promise will stay the same:

Make it very easy to ask a good question and trust the answer.

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Try Indie Polls

If you are tired of wrestling with heavyweight survey tools for simple decisions, give Indie Polls a spin:

• Create a poll in a few clicks.
• Share a beautiful link or drop a widget on your site.
• Watch real responses roll in without breaking your flow.

Your next better decision might be just one poll away.