Polly
App & software · 2017 · Niche
Polly's investor reported 20 million monthly voters as its polls spread on Snapchat.
ranidu
@Ranidu · May 9, 2019
6/6 As with any anonymous app, retention, and abuse will definitely be major problems. One of the big reasons we stuck to polling vs open anonymous comment box. Curious to see how Yolo and Snap handle these issues.
Spread Score
How it worksNumbers
- Voters in preceding month (YC company report)
- 20M
- As of Sep 26, 2017 · Open web · Self-reported · Y Combinator
- Peak date
- Oct 4 ’17
- Aug 2017 to Oct 4 ’17
- Platforms
- 6
- Started on Open web
- Origin
- Seeded
- Technology
How it spread
Trace the originPolly launched on the mobile web in August 2017. Teens shared poll links through Snapchat; YC reported 20 million voters in a month. Instagram added native polls that October. A planned Reddit acqui-hire later fell through.
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August 2017
Polly seed · Aug 2017
Polly launched its mobile-web polling product in August after the Whale team pivoted during YC's summer program.[1]
The Beat Drop Inc. platform jump · Aug 16 ’17
Polly's native app was released, according to Common Sense Media's app record.[2]
September 2017
Snapchat users platform jump · Sep 20 ’17
Users shared poll links in Snaps and Stories, letting friends vote in Snapchat's browser without logging in.[3]
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New cases, every week
How the next thing spread, the week it does.