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

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Post by ensignavenger »

j45 wrote: post #116
ensignavenger wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Umm, Microsft software uses a lot of open source dependancies.

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

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Post by auct »

Syntaf wrote: post #49

Very cool! Form builders are really fun applications to build and teach you a lot about more advanced relational models (like polymorphic relations) I scrapped together a form-builder-with-payments using RoR and RailsAdmin last year for my club and ended up spinning it off into a pay-per-use SaaS[1]. As it turns out, forms are a fundamental aspect of a LOT of things, and offering free use tools can change the game fo…

Why did you choose PayPal instead of stripe?

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

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Post by wouldbecouldbe »

tisdadd wrote: post #69
mewpmewp2 wrote: post #55

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Yeah, I don't know, most of the time only time you actually need dep injection is for tests, and at that point why not just mock with Jest? Feels too much just having to do all this work just to complicate dependencies and make moving around more difficult for tests when a much simpler solution is available.

Just wanted to chime in and say that if you use the CLI to generate things, the experience is much nicer. However, you do still need to be in their playground. If you have a large team out org and don't want to have to document extra about the guts, I love having something proven. If you need to mix protocols, I believe Feathers JS was a little simpler to get into last I looked.

Defacto standard is express with mature packages, that will get you a lot more then nestjs or featherjs and a lot simpler.

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Post by beanclap »

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…

formbricks does have single use survey links, here are the docs for it:

https://formbricks.com/docs/link-surveys/single-use-links

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

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Post by j45 »

ensignavenger wrote: post #121
j45 wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Umm, Microsft software uses a lot of open source dependancies.

Not Microsoft themselves, but organizations which use Microsoft.

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

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Post by rkuodys »

eastbound wrote: post #81
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…

Even if it were anonymous, your recipients wouldn’t trust it. Everyone knows anonymous polls get you fired (which is still proof that some people still trust anonymity, but those people are usually not working here anymore).

I think that's the opportunity in broader sense. I believe one of the key differentiators in future concentrated markets with well established brands will be trust. If you don't trust Google or MS in your domain - smaller but independent third party provider will be something you gonna look for. Same with forms - if you can establish independent brand which guarantees that payer won't have access to data - that's an interesting position to take and develop a business.
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