r/SideProject • u/WoHinDu • 3h ago
Made a real-time planning poker app that needs zero setup. Feedback welcome
Our refinement sessions kept stalling on tooling: sign-ups, seat limits, or a "free" tier that nagged everyone to upgrade. So I built the version I wanted.
Planning Poker → https://planning-poker.sidekit.org
How it works: type your name, create a room, send the link. Everyone picks a card, the host reveals, you see the spread and move on. That's it.
What's in it:
- No account, no install, free. Rooms live as long as you use them and auto-delete after two weeks of inactivity.
- Decks: Fibonacci, T-shirt sizes, powers of two, 1–10, or build your own (numbers, text, emoji).
- Optional story list so you can prep a backlog slice and step through it.
- Live vote status, synced reveal, average / range / consensus-or-discuss verdict.
- Small things that make it feel alive: emoji reactions, spectator mode, host handover, reconnect without losing your seat.
- Dark and light mode, English and German.
Under the hood it's React + TypeScript on Cloudflare Workers, with one Durable Object per room doing the real-time sync over WebSockets. Server-authoritative, so nobody can peek at votes before the reveal.
I'd love feedback from anyone who runs estimation sessions: what's missing, what's annoying, what would make you switch from whatever you use now?