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Opinion polls and civic tech
Sites for casting votes on public opinion polls and daily dilemmas, plus civic tools that track politicians, legislation, elections, and government spending for voters and citizens.
Built for: Voters, citizens, casual poll-takers
Projects since May 04
99
Different builders
96
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
-13%
AI is the core
10%
Projects per week
Mostly web app (83%), mobile app (11%), other (2.0%) · from r/SideProject, r/vibecoding, r/IMadeThis, r/ShowYourApp
Latest
- PublicPin — Lets people report local civic issues with a photo, category, and GPS location on a public map.“I built PublicPin, a free way to put local civic issues on a public map”
- CivicLens AI — Answers plain-English questions about a city's adopted budget using retrieved passages from that city's official budget book, with page citations.“I built CivicLens AI — ask a city’s official budget book questions in plain English”
- Decidr — Lets people post two photos or short clips side by side and have others vote by swiping, with comments, emoji reactions, global or private posts, and timed posts.“I built a social app. Promoting on TikTok gets likes, but not converting to downloads. I'm considering more niche targeting. Who would you target first?”
- Peopoll — Lets anyone post a question and shows poll results broken down by age, gender and country.“What if you could ask the whole world one question and see how every age, gender and country answered?”
- Internet Exchange — Lets users submit links as stocks, back them with investments, and watches a territory map shift as products rise and fall.“I turned the internet into a stock market”
- Aggregates public Brazilian political data from official sources like the Chamber of Deputies, Senate and TSE into one searchable, comparable platform.“I built a political data platform and I'm looking for people interested in supporting or discussing the project”
- ThisThat — Lets users vote on binary this-or-that questions and see how their choices compare to everyone else's.“ThisThat – a simple "this or that" fun voting site”
- Dittodle — Lets visitors pick a colour for Monday and shows how their choice compares with everyone else's.“Dittodle - What colour is Monday? See if thousands of others agree.”
- The Money Zebra — Ranks the top 100 most powerful people in America and shows their wealth and influence on an interactive globe.“I know at least 100 people are not going to like this leaderboard idea”
- Lamentopoly — Lets citizens pin local problems on an interactive map, rank them with weighted upvotes, and collect signatures to send a petition to the city council via certified email.“Lamentopoly, un sistema moderno per segnalare problemi cittadini.”
- hundert.ch — Runs a daily A/B poll with 100 slots where answers stay hidden until the board fills or the day ends, plus a Teams version for blind group voting with a facilitator reveal.“I built a daily A/B poll where you can't see the result until the board closes”
- Fruit Ranking — Lets anonymous visitors vote once per browser for a favorite fruit from 40 options and shows a live ranking.“Fruit Ranking – a very serious election for the best fruit”
- Hémicycle — Lets players collect and battle cards depicting real French parliamentarians, built from public parliamentary activity data.“I turned 68 years of French parliamentary open data into a collectible card game — 12,428 cards, every MP and senator since 1958”
- YouTube claim checker — Uses web search and an AI model to check political claims made in YouTube videos.“I made a youtube claim checker mvp”
- Birthed — Lets visitors spend three daily votes to size news, birthday and history stories on a shared board that locks at midnight into an archive.“Built an r/place style board where today's news and history fight for territory by vote, amateur coder”
- Call the Map — Publishes a statistical forecast model for the 2026 US midterm elections with its methodology documented.“Spent a year working on my own 2026 midterms forecast model. Realized i don’t have anyone to show it to!”
- Agreeish — Lets users answer quick opinion polls and compares how their answers match other people's, by country or friend group.“I built Agreeish because my friend and I couldn't agree on what counts as "normal"”
- OPAX — Cross-references Australian politicians' parliamentary speeches, votes, donations and government contracts in one searchable site.“OPAX - Every speech, vote, donation and government contract in Australian politics, cross-referenced in one free site”
- Opine — Hosts multiple-choice public polls and shows aggregate vote distributions on a world map.“Opine, a public polling website with maps”
- Yourlocalwatch — Aggregates public government and school records from towns into one searchable site.“I vibe coded a site to centralized public records”
Most discussed
- Open Democracy — Proposes a platform for frequent direct polling of citizens on issues, with AI handling the coordination.“Open Democracy”
- Solid Purple — Publishes probabilistic forecasts for every House and Senate race in the 2026 U.S. midterm elections.“Disney took down FiveThirtyEight, so I spent nights and weekends for eight months building my own version. It's called Solid Purple and it's now live.”
- Scrapes Tamil Nadu Election Commission constituency pages and serves live election results through a free CDN-hosted site.“I used Claude to build a live election dashboard in 2 days. It handled 430K requests from 24K visitors without spending money”
- Money Behind the Ballot — Organizes political donation, corporate and PAC contribution data so people can see who funds politicians and campaigns.“I built a site to make political money easier to understand”
- Beacon — Shows an Indian Lok Sabha constituency's MP report card and late central infrastructure projects on an interactive map.“I built a map of India where you can tap your seat and see your MP’s numbers + late central projects (sourced from MoSPI / PRS)”
- Decidr — Lets people post two photos or short clips side by side and have others vote by swiping, with comments, emoji reactions, global or private posts, and timed posts.“I built a social app. Promoting on TikTok gets likes, but not converting to downloads. I'm considering more niche targeting. Who would you target first?”
- YouTube claim checker — Uses web search and an AI model to check political claims made in YouTube videos.“I made a youtube claim checker mvp”
- Hémicycle — Lets players collect and battle cards depicting real French parliamentarians, built from public parliamentary activity data.“I turned 68 years of French parliamentary open data into a collectible card game — 12,428 cards, every MP and senator since 1958”
- Yourlocalwatch — Aggregates public government and school records from towns into one searchable site.“I vibe coded a site to centralized public records”
- Peopoll — Lets anyone post a question and shows poll results broken down by age, gender and country.“What if you could ask the whole world one question and see how every age, gender and country answered?”