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Re: Show HN: SnoopForms – Open-Source Typeform Alternative

#2
hoi!

we just launched the first public beta of Typeform open-source tool snoopForms.

Apart from OS, we want to differentiate by:

- offering code & no-code interfaces to create forms (beta) - offering in-depth form analytics & improvement tools like A/B testing (tba) - granular and conditional data piping i.e. "if newsletter checkbox is set, send name & email field to SendGrid". Essentially, well integrated and GDPR compliant Zapier

What do you think?

Re: Show HN: SnoopForms – Open-Source Typeform Alternative

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post #2

hoi! we just launched the first public beta of Typeform open-source tool snoopForms. Apart from OS, we want to differentiate by: - offering code & no-code interfaces to create forms (beta) - offering in-depth form analytics & improvement tools like A/B testing (tba) - granular and conditional data piping i.e. "if newsletter checkbox is set, send name & email field to SendGrid". Essentially, well integrated and GDPR c…

Awesome. Always good to have more open source products. Will you make it easier to make forms look like Typeform?

Re: Show HN: SnoopForms – Open-Source Typeform Alternative

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This is very cool, there's definitely a need for something that sits between the completely no-code tools and a completely DIY approach.

Your submission-based pricing is also very approachable to small-volume forms -- the industry standard is about a $25-35 minimum monthly, and even though there's often a free tier it usually includes a small subset of features.

One thing that's a blocker for me at the moment is that I can't seem to add text besides the field name to a field in the no-code tool. It's useful for providing instructions on the field, but I don't see a way to do it.

Overall this feels pretty polished, I'm impressed.

Re: Show HN: SnoopForms – Open-Source Typeform Alternative

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This is very cool, there's definitely a need for something that sits between the completely no-code tools and a completely DIY approach. Your submission-based pricing is also very approachable to small-volume forms -- the industry standard is about a $25-35 minimum monthly, and even though there's often a free tier it usually includes a small subset of features. One thing that's a blocker for me at the moment is that…

thanks for the feedback, Paul :-) currently you can add text blocks above or below the questions and add there any instructions you like. but you are right, there are no dedicated help texts, etc. at the moment. but I think we will have a good solution for that very soon

Re: Show HN: SnoopForms – Open-Source Typeform Alternative

#7

From the name "snoop" forms, I genuinely thought this was some kind of tracking/telemetry forms tool. It's not.

hey! Interesting, this is kinda where we came from.

We thought that with a form you always try to get as much information as possible, hence your "snooping" around.

You took it a step further, good that extensive form analytics are coming :)

Re: Show HN: SnoopForms – Open-Source Typeform Alternative

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hoi! we just launched the first public beta of Typeform open-source tool snoopForms. Apart from OS, we want to differentiate by: - offering code & no-code interfaces to create forms (beta) - offering in-depth form analytics & improvement tools like A/B testing (tba) - granular and conditional data piping i.e. "if newsletter checkbox is set, send name & email field to SendGrid". Essentially, well integrated and GDPR c…

Awesome. Always good to have more open source products. Will you make it easier to make forms look like Typeform?

Hey! Yes, this has been requested a few times. Thinking of a "Typformerize" Toggle :)

Re: Show HN: SnoopForms – Open-Source Typeform Alternative

#10
I love this pricing model of .02 per submission for the pro plan. Often, as an agency, our customer or project needs are “lumpy” in terms of usage and the monthly base fees are a serious margin killer. The usage based fee like a cloud provider would charge is awesome for our use case.
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