Digitizing Opinion Polling – poll.cc

poll.cc is building the future of transparent and reliable digital polling.

Problem

Most polling today is fragmented across platforms where polls are not the core content type. Think about it:

• Twitter/X is for short posts
• Instagram is for photos
• Pinterest is for art
• YouTube is for long-form videos
• TikTok is for short-form videos
• Substack/Medium are for essays

But no major platform treats polls as a first-class content type. Polls on these platforms are ephemeral, undiscoverable, and often lack follow-up or context.

Problem two is legacy polling from firms like Ipsos, Gallup, and YouGov — which rely on closed methodologies, require blind trust, and offer no transparency into how respondents voted or what segments exist within the data.

Solution

poll.cc makes polls the main content — not an afterthought.

It’s a purpose-built platform where users create, vote, and analyze polls with full transparency. Every poll lives on a public, searchable poll book — no more disappearing results or unverifiable votes.

• 🧠 Group segmentation by votes — Automatically groups users based on how they voted across polls. Want to see how Trump supporters who also support universal healthcare answered a question? One click.
• 🔍 Search + filter — Easily explore past polls by topic, voter segment, or date.
• 🗳️ Public votes — All votes are public by default.
• 🛡️ Optional KYC & X Verification — Any user can choose to pass KYC or connect their X (Twitter) account. Other users and creators can then filter votes based on these identity signals — for example, showing only votes from KYC-verified users or X-verified accounts. This ensures higher trust, real identities, and filtering out bot activity when needed.

With poll.cc, polling isn’t a side feature — it becomes the focus.

Why Now

Public trust in traditional polling is at an all-time low — people increasingly believe results are manipulated, opaque, or influenced by biased sampling.

• Political engagement is exploding, especially on platforms like X, YouTube, and Telegram.
• Creators and influencers want better ways to engage their audiences — not just passively, but interactively.
• Legacy polling companies are slow, expensive, and closed-source.
• AI and bot activity make it harder than ever to trust digital polls — unless identity is verifiable.

poll.cc is built for this moment: a world where people demand transparency, permanence, and filtering of votes based on different groups to better understand the patterns — and where creators want control and insight, not just surface-level engagement.

Target Audience

poll.cc is designed for creators, influencers, political commentators, and communities who want more than just surface-level engagement.

These users care about what their audience thinks, but also how different segments respond — and they want results they can trust, revisit, and share.

• 🎙️ Podcast hosts & streamers — who run live discussions and want polls that don’t disappear when the episode ends.
• 🧠 Political influencers — who want real-time pulse checks and visible public votes to build trust with their audience.
• 📊 Independent researchers & journalists — who need transparent, filterable, and shareable poll data.
• 🧵 X (Twitter) power users — who run threads, debates, or spaces and want persistent polls with better filtering than native Twitter allows.
• 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Community leaders — who want private rooms for polls that only their members can access and answer.

In short: poll.cc gives anyone with an audience the ability to run real, transparent, lasting polls — and actually understand what their audience believes.

Business Model

poll.cc is free for creators — they can create dedicated rooms for their communities, each serving as a centralized, searchable database of all their polls.

We monetize their audience, not the creators themselves.

• 💬 Premium Room Memberships — By default, only the creator can post polls in a room. Fans who want to contribute their own polls can subscribe as premium members of that room. This turns polling into a new monetization layer — built on engagement and community voice.
• 📊 Paid Insights API (in development) — Analysts, researchers, and journalists will be able to query structured public poll data — filterable by identity signals like X-verified users, KYC status, or political alignment. Perfect for dashboards, trend detection, or training LLMs on real sentiment.
• 🏛️ Organization & Political Group Tiers (future rollout) — Once we grow the userbase through creators and podcasters, we’ll offer a pay-per-vote model for companies and campaigns — enabling them to run verifiable, unique-voter polls with unmatched reliability and insight.

We monetize the audience — not the creators themselves. But as the product and userbase grow, we can start adding paid features for creators as well.

Team

Maksym Pylypenko — Founder & Engineer
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Ukrainian software engineer and founder of poll.cc. Built the entire MVP — frontend, backend, identity layers, and infrastructure — from scratch. Spent 8 years in software outsourcing, helping U.S. and European clients build full-scale web and mobile products. Led cross-functional teams of developers, designers, and QA engineers. Brings deep product development experience and a strong execution mindset.

Kirill Markin — Software Engineer
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Full-stack developer helping shape core product logic, API design, and scalable backend features.

Serhii Nosko — Software Engineer (joining once funded)
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Frontend and platform-focused engineer ready to join full-time as soon as funding allows.

The team has strong cohesion — we've worked together on multiple projects in the past, so we move fast, trust each other’s skills, and have the technical execution fully covered.