As a team lead at ZayZoon, I run a lot of sprint planning sessions. We usually have quite a lot to cover, so I tend to move quickly. The team had been using Parabol for story pointing before, but I found it too cumbersome. I really just needed the bare minimum: a web app that let people anonymously vote in points, then a way to reveal them all at once.
So I built Quick Pointer.
It’s super simple. No accounts, no setup, no admin users. You just open the site and start pointing. The site is completely public, but who cares - we’re literally just picking numbers! As an option, you can paste in a Jira ticket link so that everyone can read it before they vote (which would be inaccessible to anyone who’s not already authenticated with Jira).
The whole thing runs on Rails 8 with Turbo Streams and ActionCable handling the real-time parts. It uses Rails’ in-memory cache instead of a database because there is no need to persist story points for more than a few minutes. Browser sessions track who voted what, so people can change their votes before the big reveal.