About

Hi I'm Allan Ebdrup I've created obsurvey in my spare time. Obsurvey is an online tool for conducting your own online surveys, with your own questions. The idea is that you: Create you own survey right here on this website, using the obsurvey tool. 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. The people you have sent the link to click the link and answer your survey. 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.

Motivation

My motivation is that I want to provide an easy and very very simple survey solution, that's still powerfull enough to be usefull for a lot of people. Obsurvey is intended to be a free service. A kind of "see what I can do"-application :-)

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

Contact

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

Funding

I finance the hosting and any other costs for running obsurvey out of my own pocket. If you use obsurvey often you can donate money to keep it running.

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.

I have developed my own JavaScript framework I 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