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Kartikey Bhardwajleft a comment
Hey PH! 👋 I built Pulse because every time my team needed a quick poll, we'd end up in one of two places: a 15-step Google Form, or a Slack poll that gets buried in 30 seconds. I wanted something that's just... a poll. Fast to create, real-time results, no account required to vote, and not owned by a platform that could change its API tomorrow. The tech side was a fun constraint too. I wanted...
PulseLightweight real-time polls - open source & self-hosted
Most polling tools are buried inside Slack, Teams, or Google Forms, or locked behind paywalls. Pulse is a standalone, open-source polling app that does one thing well.
• Real-time - votes update live across all viewers via WebSocket
• Privacy-first - anonymous creators and voters, enforced server-side
• Self-hosted - deploy to your own AWS account with one CDK command
• Dirt cheap - runs on Lambda + DynamoDB, free tier covers most usage
• Under 50KB frontend - no bloat, no frameworks, just fast
PulseLightweight real-time polls - open source & self-hosted