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Re: Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced

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Post by Syntaf »

replwoacause wrote: post #65
Syntaf wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I generally mean a member based organizations, could be a book club or professional association or anything of the sorts. Not every club charges dues, but those that do generally start off with a google form and a pinky promise that you'll send your dues after submitting the form. Works for awhile but it's hard to maintain, speaking as someone who's had to do this before. embolt is my go at offering a member platform…

Looks very well done! Did you have to write much JS or could you do everything you needed with RoR?

Thanks! I initially started out with just jQuery but eventually realized I needed to support more complex interactions and adopted Turbo & Stimulus [1].

Still sticking with server-side rendering though, always loved that approach to building webapps and tools like HTMX & Turbo make it much easier to integrate with complex UX interactions.

[1] https://medium.com/@csofiamsousa/hotwire-turbo-and-stimulus-...

Re: Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced

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Post by thih9 »

mufeng wrote: post #90
thih9 wrote: post #10

Congrats on open sourcing your project! I see that it relies on mongodb, at a first glance this seems a good fit for a forms oriented product - looks like using a document db for actually dealing with documents. How did it work out for you? Would you choose it again?

Maybe not. MySQL and PostgreSQL are both capable of performing this task effectively.

Are you associated with the project or are you commenting based on your own experience?

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Post by hughesjj »

thih9 wrote: post #75
rkuodys wrote: post #73

I cannot quickly find the answer so maybe the project owner can share - I have a need for which apparently there is no ready-to-use product - I need to have form which is anonymous, but at the same time it should be one-time-only submit. (Like voting system). My ideal solution would be to send unique link to each recipient and limit one submission per link. However, I as a purchaser should not be able to see who got…

I doubt any generic platform would support such a specific use case out of the box, especially if major providers don’t offer it.

Eh, I mean it's a pretty common ask in my experience, but my experience isn't the world's

Re: Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced

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Post by winrid »

testbf wrote: post #103
winrid wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone that built a 20m ARR survey product... The only difference between this and something making millions is a sales team.

And millions in bots and fake reviews.

it wasn't needed in our case. Selling B2B didn't require online reviews of our product.

Re: Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced

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Post by winrid »

pas wrote: post #56
winrid wrote: post #52

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The worst Java frameworks are better than NestJS IMO

Why? In what sense? What would you recommend instead for TS? And what would you recommend instead of Nest and TS?

I wouldn't really recommend TS anymore. I would just go to a compiled language that actually has runtime type safety and a good ecosystem and devx. Although, it looks like Deno/Bun will improve things. After working with it for 5yrs, I just don't want to deal with the typescript compiler and ecosystem anymore, it's more of a headache than it's worth when Java (or ktl), Go, (and because HN: rust) are great.

Re: Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced

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Post by j45 »

ensignavenger wrote: post #110
j45 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are organizations (often not small) that will pay for a hosted and closed source solution if it is available under dual license in case it goes away. Other organizations still, have open source only policies, or no open source at all. Many of these applications can be in government. It can increase the footprint.

What organizations have a no open source policy? They would be hard pressed to find any significant commercial software that doesn't have an open source dependency somewhere it its dependency chain!

Oh, they exist. Imagine Microsoft based companies that must have commercial licensing with software that guarantees to work or is secure.

I know of some CMS’ which were dual licensable for this reason.

Other reasons why:

https://www.channelfutures.com/connectivity/reasons-organiza...

Re: Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced

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Post by jholman »

thih9 wrote: post #75
rkuodys wrote: post #73

I cannot quickly find the answer so maybe the project owner can share - I have a need for which apparently there is no ready-to-use product - I need to have form which is anonymous, but at the same time it should be one-time-only submit. (Like voting system). My ideal solution would be to send unique link to each recipient and limit one submission per link. However, I as a purchaser should not be able to see who got…

I doubt any generic platform would support such a specific use case out of the box, especially if major providers don’t offer it.

I think it's a common need.

I'll add that I think in this case, an important part of the use-case is a credible commitment to anonymizing the answers.

Re: Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced

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Post by jholman »

snvzz wrote: post #74

Huge Affero (AGPL) warning. Do not touch unless you understand how the license works and want to do so anyway.

> Do not touch unless you understand how the license works and want to do so anyway.

Which is the license that you think it's safe to touch when you don't understand how it works?

Re: Show HN: I just made my profitable online form builder open-sourced

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Post by _akhe »

circusfly wrote: post #43

AI thanks you for your efforts.

AI needs the help honestly. Because it's based on training (from the past, and only what's published that it can get its greedy 6-fingered hands on), it's always going to be behind HI (human intelligence !). OP might have taught it how to make a form builder, but there are a lot other concepts at play here - a lot more than a language engine could spit out about making a form builder - which may or may not even be that accurate or relevant to the context. We'd need other engines, at least. We're in very early stages of AI, early enough that people should be excited about the [human] jobs it necessitates in order to get even close to a threatening point - which, who knows if it will even be a threat by the time that finally happens, if ever.
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