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And for what it’s worth, I appreciate the skepticism and questions.

Totally fair to question it. I did ask a couple friends to go through the workflow of reading the post, trying the beta, and optionally commenting. Astroturfing is actually one of …

Appreciate that. I’ve thought about anonymous polling before, but the real push came from doomscrolling earlier this year. IG and TikTok were both feeding me nonstop political US c…

Consider me an ATProto Toucher :)

No worries, I appreciate the intention. It definitely feels like we’re getting close to not having any easy indicators whatsoever.

I wasn’t before, but I am now. Thanks for pointing that out. I’ll dig into AT Protocol and see what’s happening there.

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Oh that's just part of my vocabulary. lol. Um, my username is gucduck on all socials if that helps? And this is my personal website: gucduck.com

Really appreciate you trying it out. The answer-before-results flow was intentional to avoid anchoring, and the skip option is there to keep participation low pressure. On accuracy…

That’s fair feedback. I’ve updated the post to include a section with more implementation details. It’s currently built with Next.js and Firebase. Responses are stored separately f…

Thank you! If you’re curious, would love to have you on the beta list.

Hey HN I’ve been thinking a lot about barriers to civic participation. Most people don’t show up to town halls. They don’t respond to traditional surveys. And a lot of online polit…

Civie is built around a simple bet: that making civic questions anonymous, quick, and recurring lowers the barrier to participation, even if the resulting data isn’t perfectly repr…

This is very much in the same space as what I’ve been building, so it’s interesting to see the overlap in instincts here! I started working on Civie ( https://civie.org ) 2 months …