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
#2We have been working on this open source survey toolbox for more than a solid year. We started as a pure open source alternative to Typeform to allow anyone to run surveys, learn more about their users and control the data and infrastructure.
Over time, more and more of our users wanted to survey their users inside their software product and get a much higher conversion rate by asking short and highly targeted questions to better understand their users and improve their product. To help them, we have rebuilt Formbricks from the ground up to support both in-app surveys and link surveys - all open source and easy to self-hosted.
We would love to hear your feedback and see how we can help you better understand your users.
Re: Show HN: Formbricks – Open-source alternative to Typeform and Sprig
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#4what inspired you to start this? always curious
Re: Show HN: Formbricks – Open-source alternative to Typeform and Sprig
#5Most of the time, survey forms can be boring and monotonous. Apart from making an awesome product that works smoothly, do you also plan to have a design strategy to make your surveys stand out?
Re: Show HN: Formbricks – Open-source alternative to Typeform and Sprig
#6what inspired you to start this? always curious
We have been in the feedback & survey market for many years now, and especially with the new privacy regulations (e.g. GDPR) and the new rise of Open Source, we often wondered why there was no easy to use Open Source solution that you could embed into your own technical infrastructure and also customize the way you need.
So we built a first MVP as a hobby project and got such a great response from the open source community and early customers that we decided to go all in at the end of last year .
Re: Show HN: Formbricks – Open-source alternative to Typeform and Sprig
#7looks cool! But you’re doing a lot of things at the same time, why Typeform AND sprig?
Re: Show HN: Formbricks – Open-source alternative to Typeform and Sprig
#8Most of the time, survey forms can be boring and monotonous. Apart from making an awesome product that works smoothly, do you also plan to have a design strategy to make your surveys stand out?
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 customizability and overall look of link surveys. For example, video backgrounds is one of them: https://github.com/formbricks/formbricks/pull/1515
We are also currently working with a talented designer who is helping us build a great open design system for Formbricks, making sure that Formbricks surveys have a recognizable look and work consistently across the app #opensourcedesign :-) We will likely be able to launch this within the next 1-2 months
Re: Show HN: Formbricks – Open-source alternative to Typeform and Sprig
#9looks cool! But you’re doing a lot of things at the same time, why Typeform AND sprig?
When we started, we were focused on building an open source alternative to Typeform. But as we continued to talk to users and watch them implement our solution, we realized there's a huge need for in-app insights similar to what Sprig offers, but as an open solution.
With highly targeted in-app micro-surveys, you can learn a lot about your users without annoying them and creating survey fatigue by asking less and only the right users.
That's why we've expanded our infrastructure to support in-app surveys, which have become the main part of our application over time.
But there's still a need for an open survey toolbox that's easy to use and allows you to easily send surveys via link or email. Since the infrastructure for these two is almost the same, we are still building this together with our open source community and promised to always keep the link survey features open and free for everyone to celebrate their great work and contributions.
Re: Show HN: Formbricks – Open-source alternative to Typeform and Sprig
#10Does this work without javascript?
I know folks that are very privacy conscious that are used to and hate cookie popups and will treat formbricks as just another cookie popup and will adblock, download a blocklist, or use a PiHole to remove intrusive popups automatically.