Decentralized Polling on Hive: A New Venture by Peak Open Projects

 

 
Hey There Hive Community!

Today, we're thrilled to share that our team at Peak Open Projects has kicked off an exciting project to create a decentralized Polling/Voting protocol for Hive. Why? Because we love Hive and its potential for innovation, and we believe it's high time we have a truly open and integrated polling system.

What's Been Happening

So here's the deal. Multiple projects on Hive have tried creating their own polling or voting systems, but those were always limited to their own specific apps. No one ever took a swing at making a decentralized, open-source system and worked on getting it adopted many places. That's where we come in! Our vision goes beyond just one app; we're looking at Hive as a whole.

SO FAR.... we're diving deep into HAF technology, and talking with the awesome folks at @Blocktrades who have helped. We've started drafting the tech docs, and we've even started work on several UI pages that'll show you poll results in real-time and list all the active, qualified votes.

The Big Goals

• Everywhere on Hive: We want this to work on all Hive apps, not just the blogging ones.
• Open-Source!: Yep, we're making this all open-source.
• HAF Tech: We're highly considering leveraging this advanced tech built by the Blocktrades team.
• API Goodness: Expect an API for accessing lists of active and closed polls and the stats/results.
• Data Crunching: We're going all-in on data analysis for votes. The more ways to slice and dice the data of a vote, the better.
• Analyze the vote: Different methods to analyze the vote — from "one vote per account" to Hive Power weighted", to qualifications that look at account age, community membership and more.
• Find Your Poll: Easy search and categorization features.
• More Poll Types: We're starting simple, but we're thinking big for the future with several types of polls.

We Want to Hear From You!

This isn't just a "look what we're doing" post. We genuinely want to know what YOU are hoping for, whether you're an app developer or a regular Hive user, want from this kind of system. Got experiences with other polling systems? Got ideas for what would make Hive's system kick butt? Lay it on us.

Let's Make Hive Even Better, Together

We're eager to get your input as we work to make this vision a reality. This is a community project, so your feedback will shape how this all comes together. Can't wait to hear what you think! Specially if you run an app and hope to have this feature on your site.

Feel free to sound off in the comments or reach out to us directly.

What do you think? Are you as pumped about this as we are? Drop your thoughts below. We're all ears.
 

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Join us in revolutionizing the Hive-based network. Let's make our network better, together!
 
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