About us
Independent since 2014
StrawPoll makes it easy and reliable to share polls with a group, from five friends to five hundred thousand viewers. We’re an independent company from Hamburg, Germany and have run StrawPoll since 2014.
- Online since
- 2014
- Registered users
- 2.5 Million 2.5M
- Hosted in the EU
- 100%
- Outside investors
- 0
More than 12 years of online polls
A straw poll is an old idea: a quick, informal vote to see where a group stands. We’ve spent over a decade making it work for groups of any size, on any device.
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2007
An idea ahead of its time
strawpollnow.com starts a poll app for Twitter. Online polls are still a niche, but the idea of asking a crowd with a single link sticks.
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2014
strawpoll.de goes live
A fresh, ad-free and multilingual poll site launches in Germany. People far beyond Germany start using it, even in German.
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2017
strawpoll.com
After long negotiations we acquire strawpoll.com, giving our already international business the address it deserves.
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2026
Rebuilt from the ground up
The new StrawPoll brings meeting polls, live polls, workspaces and many new question types, built on everything we learned in over a decade.
Bootstrapped, on purpose
We answer to our users, not to a board
Since 2014 StrawPoll has grown on its own revenue. That independence shapes every decision we make.
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No investors, no exit plan
StrawPoll has never taken outside money and doesn’t plan to. Nobody can push us to grow at any cost or sell the company.
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Paid for by the people who use it
Paid plans and advertising keep StrawPoll running. That keeps us focused on building something worth paying for.
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Small team, short paths
No layers of management and no committees. A good idea can go from a conversation to production the same week.
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Built for the long run
Polls created years ago still work. We make decisions we can stand behind in ten years, not just the next quarter.
What we care about
Reliability, precision and fast work. Everything else follows from that.
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An experience people come back to
There are many poll apps. We try to be the one people enjoy using, from creating and sharing to reading the results. If something could be better, tell us.
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Results you can rely on
A poll is only as good as its results. After getting bots and scripts under control, we built VPN and proxy detection to stop people voting again from a new address.
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Privacy that isn’t an afterthought
Our servers and databases run in Germany, in the European Union, and our analytics are self-hosted. We collect what a poll needs and not much more.
Read the privacy policy
The team
We keep the team small on purpose and don’t need complicated structures. That lets us stay close to the product and to the people who use it.
The company
StrawPoll is operated by Gregor Krambs Internet GmbH & Co. KG, an independent, owner-run company in Hamburg, Germany.
We build voting tools that make it easy for large groups to make decisions together, and we ship them to people all over the world.
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Contact
Email us directly and we’ll get back to you.
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Support
Questions about your polls, your account or billing.
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Sales
Plans for teams and organizations, invoices and custom agreements.
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General inquiries
Press, partnerships and everything else.
contact@strawpoll.com