Stillis – Anonymous Audience Polling Platform

Speakers and presenters struggle to understand shared audience concerns in real-time. Stillis is an anonymous polling platform that lets audiences submit and upvote questions together, surfacing the most important topics without individual submissions getting lost. Target users are speakers, educators, and event organizers.

Hybrid and in-person events have rebounded sharply post-2020, and "audience engagement" has become a budget line item for conference organizers who watched remote audiences tune out on Zoom — so demand for live interaction tooling is real. Slido is the obvious incumbent here and is well-entrenched, now owned by Cisco and bundled into Webex, which means the competitive threat is a large, well-resourced product with enterprise sales behind it. The $500–2k/mo revenue band is plausible for a bootstrapped tool targeting independent speakers and small event organizers, but it implies staying small — any ambition beyond that ceiling runs straight into Slido's pricing power and existing integrations. The biggest risk is that Slido is already free for basic use cases, so the default behavior for most organizers is to just use it, and differentiating on anonymity alone is a thin wedge that's easy to copy.