Thank you for agreeing to participate in testing the Pressures app. Your feedback and suggestions will be most helpful in getting it ready for release to the public at large.
Overview:
Pressures is a platform for affecting change in public policy and business practices by applying collective pressure on elected officials and decision makers via “referendums with a target” (aka pressures).
A referendum in Pressures is a one-question poll with a single-selection response (e.g. what’s your favorite primary color? ◎Red ◎Blue ◎Green).
A target in Pressures is an elected official, a policy maker, or a decision maker with a known institutional or corporate email address (e.g. @whitehouse.gov or, @boeing.com, and not an address at an email service provider such as gmail, hotmail, yahoo, etc.).
Any user can anonymously author a pressure, invite people to vote on it (also anonymously), and every time their pressure receives a specified number of votes, Pressures automatically emails the vote results to its designated target.
The following are the steps to testing Pressures…
Installing Pressures
- Download Apple’s TestFlight app (it manages distribution of beta software):
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/testflight/id899247664
- Download the Pressures app:
https://testflight.apple.com/join/OS6HAGHa
- Launch Pressures and allow it access to your location and to send you notifications (there’s no registration or login):
- Location is used by Pressures to display the city that a pressure was authored from and the cities that users voted from.
- Notifications are used to notify you of new votes on your pressures, of new pressures in your city, and more. You can fine tune notifications in the Pressures > Settings tab.
Browse and Search
- Browse through the List of available pressures, and 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.
Vote on pressures
- Tap on a pressure of interest to view its details.
- Vote on it by selecting one of its answer options, and include a comment with your vote.
- After voting, you can upvote or downvote other comments that may be visible at the time.
Author 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.
Author a pressure with a limited Voting Zone:
The simple pressure you authored above can be voted on by users worldwide. Now you’ll 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.
Author a pressure with a Target
You will now 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. For purposes of the beta test, enter support@pressures.app as the target’s email.
- 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. For the beta testing, select 1 or 5 votes (once Pressures is released, 100 will be the minimum number of votes to trigger an email to the pressure’s target).
- Tap on Submit to submit your pressure.
Send us feedback
Email: support@pressures.app
Signal: Pressures Group