Cool stuff. If you are interested in doing multipage forms and need something that already has a form editor UI, check out the open source and web components. Disclaimer, I'm a contributor to those projects.
Show HN: I built a free forms service for static websites
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Re: Show HN: I built a free forms service for static websites
#12I love how we are back to the world of cgi-bin formmail style services, after about 20 years.
Yep exactly my thoughts.
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#13I kind of hate the profanity being part of the branding, or anywhere else that I’m going to use professionally. It’s pretty useless since it’s not actually describing the service (what exactly does “no bullshit” mean for forms?), and just detracts it and the team or developer who made it.
For me it sends a very clear message about both the intent and the delivery that I can't find a good substitute word for.
I think you are being quite the prude!
Re: Show HN: I built a free forms service for static websites
#14I kind of hate the profanity being part of the branding, or anywhere else that I’m going to use professionally. It’s pretty useless since it’s not actually describing the service (what exactly does “no bullshit” mean for forms?), and just detracts it and the team or developer who made it.
What if they billed it as "formking awesome"?
Re: Show HN: I built a free forms service for static websites
#15You can do this with Netlify
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#16I might be in the market for a forms service, and have been researching them a bit over the past few weeks. As a potential customer, here is the single biggest thing that made me instantly say no: free. Even worse it's unlimited free, not even freemium. That means either the service will sell my information, or the information of my customers (if not now, eventually), or that it's going to die shortly. And I don't wa…
I'm kind of the same. Write something about what the business model is.
There exist free services that I kind of trust because it doesn't matter (irc-style technical discussions or postcard-level greetings on Telegram) or because it is freemium and they seem to have a grasp on the problem of free (free matrix accounts: they sell hosted servers, mewe: limited free storage)
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#17One interesting thing: the landing seems to load pretty much instantly in both safari mobile and ff mobile :-)
Re: Show HN: I built a free forms service for static websites
#18Reminds me of StaticKit (https://statickit.com) by Derrick Reimer who built Drip and co-hosts the Art of Product podcast. There might be some interesting lessons if you listen to their podcast, many of Reimer's insights on static site forms are made public through it.
Re: Show HN: I built a free forms service for static websites
#19I might be in the market for a forms service, and have been researching them a bit over the past few weeks. As a potential customer, here is the single biggest thing that made me instantly say no: free. Even worse it's unlimited free, not even freemium. That means either the service will sell my information, or the information of my customers (if not now, eventually), or that it's going to die shortly. And I don't wa…
To make matters worse, the site is using third party trackers, so your data is already being abused the second you open with the site. Its also closed source. I may sound paranoid, but I won't be using the service.
In SaaS, you're not going to find many products that don't use trackers and are open source, as much as that may be philosophically interesting to see. I actually want a SaaS company to track my behavior so they see what's wrong, fix bugs, and improve the product as a whole.
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#20I built a self-hosted tool (for myself) that sends form submissions via email: https://git.jlel.se/jlelse/MailyGo