How to Get Survey Responses Fast When Your Deadline Is Tomorrow

You have 11 responses. You need 50. The report is due tomorrow.

You shared the form. You begged your group chat. You waited. And here you are, still short on responses the night before the deadline. Skip the panic. Here is what actually works.

Post It to r/SampleSize

There is a subreddit full of people who fill out surveys because others fill out theirs. Drop your link there with a short description. You can pick up real responses within the hour. The catch is most respondents will be from Western countries, so if your study needs a specific demographic, keep that in mind.

Use Borang to Fill the Gap

Borang is a Chrome extension that submits Google Forms multiple times with one click. Fill in the answers once, set the number of submissions you need, and let it run. That is the whole thing.

It has over 40,000 active users and 4.7 out of 5 stars on the Chrome Web Store. A lot of those users are students in the exact same situation you are in right now.

How to do it:

Install Borang from the Chrome Web Store.
Open your Google Form and fill in the answers.
Click the “Submit” button and enter how many submissions you need.
Hit OK.

If you need the responses to look varied rather than identical, Borang Premium has a randomizer that mixes up answers across submissions. There is also a CSV import if you want to prepare a full list of different answers beforehand.

Do both. Post to r/SampleSize for real responses, use Borang to close the gap. You will hit your number before midnight.

Future you: share the form earlier next time.