About obsurvey

The idea is that you:

1. Create you own survey right here on this website, using the obsurvey tool.
2. When you have created your survey, you are given a link to a webpage (a URL). You can send this link in an email, to the people you want to answer your survey. Or you can embed the survey directly in at post on your blog or a page on your website.
3. The people you have sent the link to, click the link and answer your survey, or your visitors take the survey directly on your blog or website if you have embedded it.
4. When the people have answered your survey, you come back to this website and see an automatically generated report of what was answered.

I hope you will enjoy using obsurvey. Try it out and let me know.

If you want to know more about me, see my public LinkedIn profile.

Vision: A survey in 5 minutes

We want you to have an incredibly easy time using obsurvey. You should only have to spend 5 minutes creating an average survey.

For that reason we continually test obsurvey. And continually improve the already unique user experience of obsurvey for the better.

Every single feature we add to obsurvey, we try to implement in the best possible way. We spend a lot of time on each thing. So you will not find a list of features that's a mile long. Instead you'll find a short list. But each item on the list is implemented in a unique way, with a lot of attention to detail and extreme amounts of thought and innovation. All to make sure you will find it extremely easy and fast to use and powerfull enough to get the job done.

We measure part of my success, but not getting any emails that say: "I find feature X of obsurvey really hard to use, I don't understand it", but instead only getting emails that say: "I really love obsurvey. It would be really great if it could also do Y".

We listen to you. If you send me an email, I always respond.

Obsurvey can handle thousands of answers

We've build obsurvey to handle quite a lot of survey responses. You can safely collect thousands of responses. Just promise not to sue us if anything goes wrong. If you plan to use it for tens or hundreds of thousands of answers, please drop us an email at allan@obsurvey.com first.

Help us betatest or develop

If you would like to contribute to the developement of obsurvey, either by betatesting stuff before it's releases. Or by writing code for obsurvey. Please send us an email.

Contact

We would really like any feedback you may have on what you think of obsurvey, so we can improve it. Send me a message either in the feedback forum or by email.
 

Address
Att: Allan Ebdrup
Copenhagen Code
Gammel Koege Landevej 878
2665 Vallensbaek Strand
Denmark

Phone
(+45) 24 27 49 24

Getting technical

I've written an article about undo functionality in web applications entitled Where did undo go?.

Obsurvey uses my Structured Active Rich Document (SARD) principles, that you can see in action when editing a survey's questions.

We have developed our own JavaScript framework we call Usablility is In the Application (UIA), for developing AJAX web applications. Basically the whole application consists of one single large javascript and some serverside webservices.

Wikipedia on AJAX

Timeline

There are continually improvements of obsurvey in minor releases , but here are some of the bigger milestones for the project

Me with my kids

Me and Vega


Me and Hedvig

Icons

Obsurvey uses some icons found at IconFinder, FatCow.