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Dev tools · March 10, 2026

Pulse

Lightweight real-time polls - open source & self-hosted

Pulse launched on March 10, 2026 with 90 votes, #526 of 23,380 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.

What it does

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

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