Formbricks is a really awesome product.
Show HN: Formbricks – Open-source alternative to Typeform and Sprig
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Re: Show HN: Formbricks – Open-source alternative to Typeform and Sprig
#22This is a very nice project/product. Congrats. May I suggest having some premium themes in the paid plan as an incentive to upgrade? Please do keep the option to build a customised theme in the self-hosted version, though. Some people might even want to contribute back to the project because of that.
That's a great idea, thank you :-)
Re: Show HN: Formbricks – Open-source alternative to Typeform and Sprig
#23Been looking for an open-source survey alternative tool for a long-time! Congrats on the launch. (sharing this great article btw => https://staltz.com/time-till-open-source-alternative.html )
Thank you! "Time Till Open Source Alternative" is a pretty interesting concept!
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#24So good - I've been watching Formbricks grow since May/June and it's really impressive! A LOT of bonus points since it's open source. When is the Flutter support?
:-D thank you!
We will start working on the mobile SDKs soon and Flutter + React Native are highest on the list!
Please also feel free to submit a feature request for this on Github; perhaps a contributor would like to take it up sooner.
Re: Show HN: Formbricks – Open-source alternative to Typeform and Sprig
#25Formbricks is a really awesome product.
:-) thank you! :-)
Re: Show HN: Formbricks – Open-source alternative to Typeform and Sprig
#26Looks coool! Had a doubt though, can this be deployed on a public website and can I user user targeting in it?
We are currently working on an improved version of the formbricks-js sdk that is optimized for public websites.
It is expected to be released next week and will allow you to trigger surveys on different parts of your app with code & no-code triggers.
Re: Show HN: Formbricks – Open-source alternative to Typeform and Sprig
#27Congrats on the launch! Question: * How do you see open-source being an advantage for Formbricks when competing with other tools in the market?
Thank you! For us, the decision to go open source wasn't about having a competitive advantage, it was more about the open source community that we love being a part of.
But of course there are pros and cons to being open source. Being open source can be an advantage in this highly competitive SaaS game because it allows you to spread your (free) product much more easily around the world as developers and companies tinker with it.
It also allows us to have a much shorter feedback loop with our users and community, which is crucial for an early startup.
In addition, as an open source product, you are the first choice for privacy-conscious customers such as government agencies that want to host themselves.
The main downside, of course, is that building a commercial product is also harder in the sense that you're competing with your own free product, and it's often hard to find the line between free and paid without losing on both ends.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's also one reason for highly targeted and contextual in-app micro-surveys that help you only ask a few users 1-2 relevant questions without generating survey fatique :-) Also this month we organized a hackathon around Formbricks where, thanks to the great support of over 100 contributors, we developed many of the link survey features requested by the community. We also developed features that improve the customi…
Yes please do more to explain to people how much time something will take. I have lost count the number of times I start to answer a survey (cuz I'm happy to provide feedback) but after 3-4 questions, I'm thinking "yeah I don't have THIS much time") and give up.
Good point! We already have an open pull request to have the "time to complete" calculated and displayed at the beginning of the survey.
https://github.com/formbricks/formbricks/pull/1461
Another idea would be to let the survey creator know the current length/time to complete the survey, and if it's getting too long, show them advice on how to make it shorter, and show them that they will lose participants otherwise.
Re: Show HN: Formbricks – Open-source alternative to Typeform and Sprig
#29Glad to be a part of the formbricks community
Happy to have you!
Re: Show HN: Formbricks – Open-source alternative to Typeform and Sprig
#30One of the best open-source form services I have ever used is Typebot (1). The way it works and how users interact is awesome, I've been told many times that my forms are awesome. I am not in any way affiliated to this project, but I think it deserves some attention!
(1): https://typebot.io