Most polling tools are buried inside Slack, Teams, or Google Forms, or locked behind paywalls. Pulse is a standalone, open-source polling app that does one thing well. • Real-time - votes update live across all viewers via WebSocket • Privacy-first - anonymous creators and voters, enforced server-side • Self-hosted - deploy to your own AWS account with one CDK command • Dirt cheap - runs on Lambda + DynamoDB, free tier covers most usage • Under 50KB frontend - no bloat, no frameworks, just fast