# Pointing Space

> Free online planning poker for agile scrum teams. Open a live room, share a link, vote privately with Fibonacci / T-shirt / working-day decks, then reveal story points together—no install and no account required to start.

Pointing Space is a solo-dev passion project by Adrian Antoci. It is real-time browser planning poker (also called scrum poker or pointing poker) aimed at managers, scrum masters, business analysts, and developers who need clean estimation sessions without ads or corporate-VPN friction.

Important facts:

- Product URL: https://pointing.space/
- Estimation app lives under `/vote/` (dynamic rooms; not for search indexing)
- Free to use; donations optional at /donate/
- Creator: Adrian Antoci (hello@pointing.space)

## Primary pages

- [Home](https://pointing.space/): Product landing page and create-room entry
- [About](https://pointing.space/about/): Who built Pointing Space and why
- [Articles](https://pointing.space/articles/): Short guides on planning poker and estimation
- [What's new](https://pointing.space/whats-new/): Product changelog
- [Donate](https://pointing.space/donate/): Support hosting and development
- [Privacy policy](https://pointing.space/privacy-policy/): Privacy details for anonymous rooms
- [Terms of service](https://pointing.space/terms-of-service/): Usage terms

## Articles

- [What is planning poker?](https://pointing.space/articles/what-is-planning-poker/): Practical definition for scrum teams
- [Free online planning poker without friction](https://pointing.space/articles/free-online-planning-poker-without-friction/): Why the tool stays free and browser-first
- [How scrum masters run clean estimation](https://pointing.space/articles/how-scrum-masters-run-clean-estimation/): Facilitator tips
- [Fibonacci vs T-shirt story points](https://pointing.space/articles/fibonacci-vs-tshirt-story-points/): Choosing an estimation deck

## How the product works

1. Open https://pointing.space/ or create a room under `/vote/<uuid>`.
2. Share the room link with the team.
3. Everyone votes privately on a card.
4. Reveal together, discuss outliers, agree on story points, next hand.

Features include multiple decks (Fibonacci, T-shirt sizes, working days), facilitator/moderator mode, avatar customization, and an optional topic field for story titles or ticket IDs.

## Optional

- [Sitemap](https://pointing.space/sitemap-index.xml): Indexable public URLs
- [robots.txt](https://pointing.space/robots.txt): Crawl rules (`/vote/` disallowed)
- [Funding](https://pointing.space/funding.json): Project funding metadata
- [Status](https://pointing.space/status.json): Simple status endpoint