Pressures is a platform for exerting collective pressure on decision makers via petitions (AKA pressures) that are automatically sent to them.
Vote and comment on issues you care about without registration or login. You can also post your own poll or petition.
A pressure can have a “target” that is automatically sent the votes and comments tabulated by country, state, and city.
The target can be an elected official, a policy maker, or a decision maker with an institutional or business email address (such as @boston.gov or @boeing.com), and not an email service address (such as @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, @hotmail.com, etc.).
Once you author a pressure, you can invite people to vote on it, and every time your pressure receives the specified number of votes, Pressures emails the vote results to your designated target.
Note: All user submitted pressures are reviewed before publication on Pressures.
Installing Pressures
- Download Pressures for iOS:
- There’s no registration or login to use Pressures,
- To vote on or to create a pressure, allow it access to your location as Pressures tabulates votes by city, state, and country.
- To be notified of new votes on your pressures, of new pressures in your city, and more, allow Pressures to send you notifications. You can fine tune notifications in the Pressures > Settings tab.
Exploring Pressures
- Browse through the List of available pressures. You can sort them by date and by votes.
- Tap on Categories to view pressures by category.
- Tap on Map to view the current category of pressures on a map. The red dots indicate cities pressures were posted from. Move the map to a particular area and a list of pressures in that area will appear below the map.
- Tap on Search in the tab bar and search public pressures by by title, description, and/or, comments.
Voting on a pressure
- Tap on a pressure of interest to view its details.
- Vote on it by selecting one of its answer options. You can also include a comment with your vote.
- After voting, you can upvote or downvote other comments that may be visible at the time.
Authoring a simple pressure without a target
- If you haven’t already, vote on at least 5 pressures in order to author a pressure.
- Tap on the + icon in the bottom tab bar.
- Select a Category for your pressure.
- Enter a Title and Description for your pressure.
- Enter the answer/vote options for your pressure (minimum of 2), such as Yes / No, or Agree / Disagree / Undecided, etc.
- Tap on Submit to submit this simple pressure.
- Note: All pressures are reviewed before they are published. We’ll approve it shortly and you’ll get a notification once it’s approved.
Authoring a pressure with a limited Voting Zone:
The simple pressure you authored above can be voted on by users worldwide. You can also post a pressure with a limited voting zone (e.g. limited to your country, state, city, or even zip code if that exists in your country):
- Start by posting a simple pressure as you just did.
- For the Voting Zone, select either the country or city you are in.
- Tap on Submit to submit your pressure.
Authoring a pressure with a Target
This is how to author a pressure with a target.
- Start by posting a simple pressure as above.
- Tap on “Has a Target” and enter the name and email address of the target.
Note: the email of a target must be an institution or business email address (such as @whitehouse.gov or @boeing.com) and not an email service address (such as @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, @hotmail.com, outlook.com, etc.).
- Note: when a pressure has a target, it’s also required to enter an email address for you (to receive a BCC of the email sent to the target, and also for verification).
- Select the number of votes a pressure must reach before an email is sent to the target.
- Tap on Submit to submit your pressure.
Contact Us:
Email: support at pressures dot app