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Polly

Summer 2017 · Inactive

Polly is a social polling app for Snapchat and Instagram stories.

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Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2015

Team size: 3

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About

Polly is a fun social polling app for teens. The app allows users to create multiple-choice polls for sharing on Snapchat and other platforms. Polly launched in stealth in August and it quickly became popular among teens, with 20 million people voting over 100 million times across 5 million polls in the past month. In addition to being a casual social tool, Polly can also be used to gather opinions about popular brands. For instance, Polly received thousands of responses from teens on some of its own polls related to topics such as breakfast cereals and Starbucks drinks. Brands and influencers can also create their own polls to gather feedback from consumers.

Founders

  • Ranidu LankageFounder/CEO

    I founded Polly (45M+ users) /Whale YC S17 and Audius, a decentralized audio protocol with over 10M MAU.

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  • Vicc AlexanderFounder

    In 2017, Vicc co-founded Polly, a polling app integrated with Snapchat. Polly participated in YC's S17 batch and has been used by more than 40 million teens worldwide. Before pivoting to Polly, he co-founded Whale, a video Q&A app, with Justin Kan (Founder of Twitch). In 2016, along with Marlon Lopez and Saul Lopez, he helped build LooBot, an SMS bot aimed at connecting those without WiFi-access to gender-neutral public toilet restrooms and charging outlets nearby.

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  • James ZhangFounder

    I'm an engineering manager at OpenAI, building ChatGPT. Previously, I worked at Notion and Stripe for 8 years. Before that, I worked on a couple of startups in the music & social space, and went through YC S17. I co-founded Polly, a polling app for Snapchat used by 45+ million teenagers, and Whale, a short video Q&A app.

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