I'm working with the founder and dev team of Qwanz.com, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on the site. Qwanz is a polling site, with one key feature: once you've answered a poll, it gives you some next steps you can take -- including political / media / business figures who can actually use the information.
For example, someone who voted in this poll (http://www.qwanz.com/poll/245/) about Olympia Snowe could then forward the results to Snowe's press secretary (or call their office directly).
Qwanz is a startup with a thesis, and the thesis is simple: people fill out polls because they care about issues. If they really care, they'll welcome the chance to make a bigger difference.
Your feedback is appreciated! We're in the very early stages, so HN's comments will play an important role in what Qwanz does next.
Here are some Qwanz polls on what Qwanz should be doing:
Allow anonymous poll response but keep separate results tables for anon / logged in / everyone.
How are the follow-up steps created? If it's just some googly thing it won't be that compelling.
Homepage is extremely cluttered in a bad way for first-timers; this isn't always a big deal but it's good to be aware of.
Consider organizing it s.t. eg Olympia Snowe could have an official "polls" channel for polling her constituents; impact of poll results is more credible that way.
Have a "clone this poll" feature and follow-up / "poll response"; if some user dislikes a poll's phrasing or options they ought to be easily able to clone a poll and tweak it....keeping around that metadata so that people taking either poll can see other related polls. Similarly with response polls -- some way to post a counter-poll. Good for user engagement.
Settle on if your sideboxes have rounded or square corners plz.
I'm working with the founder and dev team of Qwanz.com, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on the site. Qwanz is a polling site, with one key feature: once you've answered a poll, it gives you some next steps you can take -- including political / media / business figures who can actually use the information.
For example, someone who voted in this poll (http://www.qwanz.com/poll/245/) about Olympia Snowe could then forward the results to Snowe's press secretary (or call their office directly).
Qwanz is a startup with a thesis, and the thesis is simple: people fill out polls because they care about issues. If they really care, they'll welcome the chance to make a bigger difference.
Your feedback is appreciated! We're in the very early stages, so HN's comments will play an important role in what Qwanz does next.
Here are some Qwanz polls on what Qwanz should be doing:
http://www.qwanz.com/poll/248
http://www.qwanz.com/poll/247