PollDaddy And Why They Sold To Automattic

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1. Eric Carlson says:

   11/26/2010 at 6:27 pm

   I must say it’s a good acquisition..if that’s the right word to use.

   Since the company is still small. Automatics should give Polldaddy lots of opportunities to grow if integrate successfully. I use the word “if” as I have seen many companies fall apart after acquisition. Hopefully not for this case.

   Eric Carlson
   Publisher,
2. Josh says:

   11/26/2010 at 6:31 pm

   I’ve looked at their services and they seem ridiculously expensive for what they offer (a script, basically). I wanted their quiz funtionality, for my free educational site with about 700,000 page views a month… that would cost me $900 a year. In the end I used a free quiz plugin and wrote a more elegant css for it.
   • Jeff Chandler (171 comments.) says:

     11/30/2010 at 12:29 pm

     Well, you’re right. If a vote in a poll counts as one response, then the 100 responses per month limit for the free account is just too limiting. I could get 100 responses in a week with a certain poll. In the end, doing something in-house or finding a plugin that works and is actively developed appears to be a better way of handling polls.
3. Sean Brady (3 comments.) says:

   11/26/2010 at 9:15 pm

   Awesome! I was unaware of polldaddy, but after this article I may end up using their services!
4. This or That Game (1 comments.) says:

   11/27/2010 at 2:59 pm

   I used PollDaddy for a while but it just became too expensive. I ended up doing pretty much what Josh did and rolled my own.
   • Jeff Chandler (171 comments.) says:

     11/30/2010 at 12:30 pm

     Have you thought about putting your polling plugin on the plugin repository? Does yours have the same feature set as WP-Polls?
5. DB Ferguson (8 comments.) says:

   11/28/2010 at 11:19 am

   I use Polldaddy polls multiple times a week. They allow me to do polls on my daily ‘Colbert Report’ episode guides. I’ve never used the paid services because I haven’t needed to. I would love to have access to some of the data exporting services, but since I’m not using the data to increase income, it seems silly to pay $200/month for what amounts to a vanity search.
   • DB Ferguson (8 comments.) says:

     11/28/2010 at 11:20 am

     $200/Year, not month.
   • Jeff Chandler (171 comments.) says:

     11/30/2010 at 12:31 pm

     Does that mean you’ve never crossed the 100 responses per month barrier? Seems like that would be pretty easy to do, especially on a larger community oriented site like yours.
     • DB Ferguson (8 comments.) says:

       11/30/2010 at 12:44 pm

       With polls, you can have as many responses to the poll as you want (http://polldaddy.com/features-polls/). I do four polls a week, four weeks a month, and average 30-50 responses per poll.
       • Jeff Chandler (171 comments.) says:

         11/30/2010 at 12:50 pm

         I see, I was looking at their price plans and the free account says 100 responses. Looks like that semantics is for surveys and not polls. If that’s the case, that’s awesome
         • Otto (215 comments.) says:

           12/1/2010 at 4:14 pm

           Yeah, that’s unclear, but a “response” only applies to surveys and quizzes. Polls have no limits, but they only ask one question, basically.
6. Oliver says:

   11/28/2010 at 12:34 pm

   In a way, this is the wordpress dot org VS dot com debate, afresh.

   Is it better to :
   – rely on someone doing everything for you, for free but with a paying option,
   or is it better to
   – put our shoulders to the wheel, face a certain degree of complexity and spend more time on it, but in exchange have everything for free and own our data without relying on a third-party ?

   That’s an open question.
   • Jeff Chandler (171 comments.) says:

     11/30/2010 at 12:32 pm

     It is indeed an open question but the more I think about it, the more I think the second option has more benefits than the first.
     • Otto (215 comments.) says:

       12/1/2010 at 4:17 pm

       In some cases, I agree with you. In other cases, I don’t.

       The basic difference is one of time and skill level. Are your coding skills up to the task of creating and maintaining your own solution to the problem? Is it worth your time to do that? If the answer is yes, then the second solution is definitely the way to go. If not, however, then a third party solution is a perfectly acceptable choice.
7. Alejandro Pérez (1 comments.) says:

   11/30/2010 at 10:52 am

   The worst of PollDady is when a admin web, who create a poll dont fix finne the poll, and one visit anonimously can edit the poll o increase the visits with only remove cookies

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