Show HN: I made Daspoll – Survey and Form Builder

13 8 4 years ago

Hi HN, I started building this around 6 months back. Having a full-time job makes it difficult to work on a side project. People say the hardest part is marketing but repetitive development is very boring. I will definitely choose a fun-ner side project than this if this fails. It's such a tiring journey as a solo developer/founder/marketer.

The tech stack is Node.js and Angular.

Daspoll is a survey builder for everyone.

domk• 4 years ago

What makes Daspoll different from to the many other existing survey products? It's not clear from the website how it's better compared to e.g. Typeform.

latchkey• 4 years ago

The privacy policy link at the bottom of the page is missing.

Red flag right there.

NatSydenham• 4 years ago

Unfortunately there are some major issues with your website that really turn me off or rub me the wrong way here. Please don't take this criticism the wrong way - this is entirely in good faith (I promise).

Firstly: I hate being presented with a 'sign up' screen when I click get started. At that point I have no idea if the product is a good fit for me. I don't necessarily want to give you my data.

Speaking of data - how do you handle my data or my customers' data if I choose to collect it? The privacy policy link doesn't go anywhere. What is your cookie policy and where can I opt in and out?

Why would I use Daspoll over something like SurveyMonkey, which is widely established in the industry? I'm not really sure what unique features you offer from what's on the homepage.

I would probably replace the 'why surveys' and 'example use cases' section with something that sells Daspoll specifically more. If I'm looking for survey software, I know I want survey software, and I know my usecase - you need to convince me to pick Daspoll over the alternatives. And you REALLY need to convince me if you want me to spend money to get more than 5 responses per survey!!

There are a few questionable UI decisions on your homepage, such as some of the content going right to the edge of the page, or the survey image in the CTA being cut off mid-question. Also, you have misspelled 'survey' in the description of the free tier, as well as 'doesn't required a credit card' in the CTA.

Also if you click the daspoll logo at the top left, it takes you to a blank page. This may be because I've not signed up.

On to what I like:

Having an easy way to set up a no code survey builder that's an alternative to the big boys is great! If it's super simple to smash together an anonymous survey that's not gonna give me 30458309 tracking cookies and loads of JS bloat, then amazing, I'd use it.

If the templates are good, then you probably save a lot of time.

It could be good if you play on the 'ease of creation' angle, and provide a more mature product, but it feels incomplete, more attention to detail on the UI/Layout, and I don't really know what the advantages of your product are.

nittanymount• 4 years ago

your site looks professional and polished UI, guess you must have done some market research on other similar sites, wonder what makes yours competitive? price or function wise? thanks, just curious about it...

sent-hil2• 4 years ago

Hi there, congrats on finishing while having a full time job! As someone who recently used SurveyMonkey and hated it, I really wanted to like it, but it was bit laggy and the UI was confusing at times. Also allowing only 10 responses in free trial makes it very limiting.

wayoverthecloud• 4 years ago

Hi, thank you for the feedback. Can you let me know where the UI was lagging especially? And what do you think the free trial should look like? Mainly, would you pay for the product in this stage if the UI was better? Thanks again!

sent-hil2• 4 years ago

Perhaps laggy is not the right term, but rather not pleasant. For example the lack of padding for text with background: https://app.daspoll.com/user/main/survey/d1356eb9-5dd5-4170-.... It was just hard to read.

And when I clicked 'Saved', it took long enough for me to think was it broken? There were no spinners or any visual feedback. So it was bit of UI and UX issues.

I don't know what the limitations of SurveyMonkey were, but it was generous enough I didn't have to pay for it. I send occasional survey for my business: https://toolwallhq.com, but not nearly enough I couldn't use SurveyMonkey. I think my last survey got <100 responses.

I see you are already using tailwind, recommend upgrading to tailwindui and improving from there.

TheFlashBold• 4 years ago

Looks nice so far, but: I've just noticed, your https://api.daspoll.com/api/get-user-by-email/ endpoint is not secured, probably other too. Also I would stick to camelCase in your api, it makes things more intuitive. You should use client and server side validation, you can easily bypass the required attribute on the survey name. Creating accounts without verifying the email is really bad.

Show HN: I made Daspoll – Survey and Form Builder

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