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I cannot quickly find the answer so maybe the project owner can share - I have a need for which apparently there is no ready-to-use product - I need to have form which is anonymous, but at the same time it should be one-time-only submit. (Like voting system).

My ideal solution would be to send unique link to each recipient and limit one submission per link. However, I as a purchaser should not be able to see who got which link, or at least, how each link voted.

Question if heyform has some implementation of the need already, because none of the well known products - Google forms, MS Forms, Typeform - support anything like that




Even if it were anonymous, your recipients wouldn’t trust it. Everyone knows anonymous polls get you fired (which is still proof that some people still trust anonymity, but those people are usually not working here anymore).


I was curious and did a google search, looks like you’re right and this can happen; some anecdotes are terrifying:

> My manager let me know that due to my answers in the culture survey, they didn't think I was a good fit for the company anymore and were letting me go.

> said that my responses to the survey showed that I had a negative attitude about the company and that they wanted to part ways.

source: https://old.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/67j04o/i_was_f...


I think that's the opportunity in broader sense. I believe one of the key differentiators in future concentrated markets with well established brands will be trust. If you don't trust Google or MS in your domain - smaller but independent third party provider will be something you gonna look for. Same with forms - if you can establish independent brand which guarantees that payer won't have access to data - that's an interesting position to take and develop a business.


I doubt any generic platform would support such a specific use case out of the box, especially if major providers don’t offer it.


I think it's a common need.

I'll add that I think in this case, an important part of the use-case is a credible commitment to anonymizing the answers.


Eh, I mean it's a pretty common ask in my experience, but my experience isn't the world's


formbricks does have single use survey links, here are the docs for it:

https://formbricks.com/docs/link-surveys/single-use-links


Thank you for sharing. Much appreciated as this is in the direction I'm looking for.




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