Welcome to pollen, your new beehive of casual decision-making activity! From picking a movie or restaurant to brainstorming for a project, pollen is all about propagating ideas and choices.
"What do you want to do?"
"I don't know, what do you want to do?"
"I'm fine with anything you want."
Gone are the days of joining a video call with your friends and spending half an hour trying to decide which game to play. There's always some Friend A with a very strong opinion, a Friend B with an even stronger opposing opinion, and the rest of the group, who maybe slightly prefer Codenames but not enough to risk getting caught in the Friend-A-Friend-B crossfire. Someone sends a Messenger poll, which everyone but Friend A and B ignores because they don't even care what game they choose, they just want to do something.
Decision-making dread is the bane of your friend group's virtual hangouts, and you know it. We made pollen to quell those qualms. By turning polling into its own enjoyable mini-activity rather than a necessary evil every time your friends want to watch a movie together, we're intending to make indecision obsolete.
- Ability to create, share, close, and delete polls
- Ability to vote, and unvote, for multiple options
- Ability to add your own option if you're not satisfied with the available choices
- Ability to see everyone's votes, because anonymity and secrecy have no place in casual settings
- At-a-glance grid view of all your polls and the polls shared with you, with information about their tags and number of votes and options
- Live updating for voting and unvoting, adding options, closing, and deleting polls
- Ability to add one or more tags to categorize your poll (e.g. food, travel, games)
- Color-coordination by tag
- Irresistably cute, bee-themed interface
To use pollen, login with your Google account from the landing page. From there, you can either vote on poll links from your friends or create your own!