LinkedIn poll generator
Type a topic and get 3 complete polls — question within LinkedIn's 140-character limit, options within 30 characters each, and an intro post that gives the comment section something to react to. Polls people actually answer, not market research they scroll past.
● free · no login · no email · fair-use daily limit
A topic your audience has lived experience with works best — polls run on opinions people already hold.
How to use it
- Type the topic or debate you want to poll your network on — a sentence is enough.
- Hit Generate 3 polls. Each comes complete and inside the limits: question, up to 4 options, and an intro post that stakes a light opinion.
- Pick the one whose question you'd genuinely answer yourself, paste the intro post above the poll, publish — and reply to the early commenters. That conversation is where the poll pays off.
The limits: 140 / 30 / 4
LinkedIn's poll composer enforces three hard limits: the question allows 140 characters, each option allows 30, and you get a maximum of 4 options. In practice the working room is smaller — options truncate in the feed well before 30 characters, so under ~25 is the safe zone. Those constraints shape everything: there's no space for context in the question (that's the intro post's job) and no space for nuance in the options (each one has to be a clean, instantly parseable position).
This generator writes inside all three limits, so every poll it produces pastes straight into the composer without surgery. The full limits table for everything else on LinkedIn lives on our character counter page.
Why most polls die — and what the survivors do
A poll is a two-second ask, and most fail it three ways. Bland options: "Yes / No / Maybe / Other" gives the voter nothing to feel. Self-serving market research: "Would you pay $29/mo for my tool?" asks the audience to do your homework, and they can smell it. An obvious right answer: if one option is clearly correct, voting is pointless and the poll reads as a setup for a post you've already written.
The polls that work invert all three:
- A question people feel qualified AND eager to answer. Their lived experience, not your research agenda. "What actually got you your last job?" beats "What's the future of hiring?" — everyone has a real answer to the first.
- Options that each feel chooseable. The vote should be a genuine decision — four defensible positions held by real people, ideally each one someone would argue for in the comments. If you can predict the winner at 80%+, rewrite the options.
- An intro post that stakes a light opinion. A bare poll collects silent votes. An intro that says "I think X — but half the smart people I know disagree" gives commenters a position to push against. Votes are the cheap engagement; the comments underneath are where a poll earns its keep.
One more habit separates the pros: when the poll closes, post the result with your read on it. The follow-up post is a second piece of content the poll wrote for you — our post generator can turn the result into that post.
Using Claude Code, Cursor, or another coding agent? Install the skill version and your agent writes limit-compliant LinkedIn polls locally — same 140/30/4 constraints, same chooseable-options discipline:
npx skills add liftli-ai/skills --skill linkedin-poll-generatorPart of the liftli-ai/skills collection — browse all 28 skills, one per tool on this site. For the full pipeline (voice extraction, strategy memory, publishing), connect the Liftli MCP.