Who can when? needs no sign-up from anyone. The organiser creates a date poll without an account, and everyone invited answers without one. This matters because a sign-up wall in front of the people you invited is the single largest cause of unanswered scheduling polls, particularly in mixed-age or non-work groups.
Where the replies actually go
Not to a competitor. They go to the moment somebody tapped your link on a phone, saw a form asking for an email address and a password, and decided to deal with it later. Later does not arrive.
The people this loses are not a random sample either. They are disproportionately the ones least comfortable online, which in a family or a community group is often the ones you most needed to hear from.
What replaces the account
- A link, which is all anyone needs to answer.
- A short spoken code per poll, readable over the phone, with no ambiguous characters.
- An organizer link that manages the poll, kept private by being unguessable rather than by a password.
- An optional email address, only so we can send you that organizer link if you lose it.
- Optional sign-in by magic link, which collects your polls in one place and unlocks nothing else.
Is that safe?
The organizer link is 32 bytes of randomness, never logged and never sent to analytics, and poll pages are noindex with no referer, so the token cannot leak through a link somebody clicks. Polls are deleted 90 days after the last activity, so nothing sits around forever waiting to be found.
Common questions
- Can I make an account if I want one?
- Yes, by magic link - no password. It lists your date polls in one place and gives you nothing else that anonymous users lack.
- What stops a stranger finding my poll?
- The code is short but drawn from a reduced alphabet, poll pages are never indexed, and anything reported is reviewed. It is a public link, not a secret, so do not put anything in the title you would mind being read.
- Do I have to give an email address?
- No, for you or for the people answering - that requirement can be switched off.
Ready when you are
The basics
What a date poll is, and how to run one that people actually answer.
Related
- A free scheduling poll A scheduling poll that is actually free: no trial, no paid tier, no feature held back, and no account needed to create one or to answer one.
- Scheduling a family gathering Get the family onto one date without a group chat meltdown. Propose a few weekends, share one link, and everyone marks when they can. No account, no app.
- Church group scheduling A group that spans every age and every level of comfort with technology. One link, three taps, no account, and a code that can be read out loud.
Read next
- How to get people to actually answer your date poll Most people who do not answer a scheduling poll are not refusing - they hit friction. Here is where the drop-off happens and what removes it.
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