BalfVote was developed by Jamie Balfour in August 2022. The idea behind it's development was simple - he needed an interface to get answers to poll questions during his classes and talks.
Jamie often liked to reinvent the wheel so-to-speak, and BalfVote was no different. Several alternatives existed but they didn't do exactly what he needed, so he developed BalfVote.
At first, BalfVote was hosted on his personal website and embedded through it, but as time went on it became hosted on the balfour.scot website, which allowed it to disconnect from his personal website.
Not long after moving it to balfour.scot, it moved to it's own domain, balf.vote.
From there, it really developed. It now has a creator for creating these polls and easy-to-find links to existing polls.