As a team lead at ZayZoon, I run a lot of sprint planning sessions. And every single time, I’d find myself fumbling with some overengineered planning poker site. Create an account, set up a room, invite the team, wait for everyone to figure out their passwords, explain the interface to new folks… by the time we actually started pointing stories, we’d burned 15 minutes.
So I built Quick Pointer.
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Try it out with your team, or fork it and make it your own.
It’s super simple. No accounts, no setup, no team creation wizards. Just open the site, share your browser URL with the team, and start pointing. Everyone on the same URL sees the same thing in real-time. Paste in your Jira ticket link, everyone picks their Fibonacci number, hit reveal, and pick your point score.
The whole thing runs on Rails with Turbo Streams and ActionCable handling the real-time bits. It uses Rails’ in-memory cache instead of a database because, honestly, who needs to persist story points for more than 24 hours? Browser sessions track who voted what, so you can change your vote before the reveal, but everything stays anonymous to keep the estimates honest.