Show HN: I built a free forms service for static websites

Post by CoreSet » Fri, May 29, 2020, 3:41 PM UTC

aroch wrote: post #67

CoreSet wrote: post #60

As someone who recently added a "fremium" / "free for solo developers" tiers to their form service this is fascinating. We give you unlimited forms but gate on submissions, offering more features / submissions in higher tiers etc. Reading the blog it doesn't look like there is anything malicious about selling user data or some "you are the product"-type bait and switch, but with one dev and no financial incentive I d…

Shouldn't your tag line be "The Form Backend Built For Developers", with "built" not "build". And a little more unsolicited feedback: the rendering/display of code example under /How It Works/ looks kind of sloppy -- I think it might actually look better when JS is disabled. Similarly, not a big big fan of the fullwidth Codepen embed.

Post by yupitszac » Fri, May 29, 2020, 3:44 PM UTC

divan wrote: post #9

bgdam wrote: post #2

I 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…

Second the opinions above, but I was also looking for some sort of explanation of why is it free (maybe some innovative idea allowed to reduce costs for long-term support or smth like that)

Post by pbhjpbhj » Fri, May 29, 2020, 3:52 PM UTC

yupitszac wrote: post #72

harrisreynolds wrote: post #59

A bit more feedback after looking at your site. First... put a live form on the home page. Second... include a screenshot of the a live form, not just the backend of form submissions. Third, for extra credit... create a simple video of using the tool end to end. Best of luck!

Thanks for the feedback! It's still a super young service that I built and work on in my spare time. I was already working on some blog posts, but the video idea is perfect! A live form, of course. People want to see how it works and play with it. I'll get these put together and up soon! Thanks again for taking a look :)

Post by XCSme » Fri, May 29, 2020, 3:59 PM UTC

satvikpendem wrote: post #80

XCSme wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have actually built a self-hosted alternative to Hotjar[0] and there are also some other platforms I think, so you can indeed have great analytics without relying on 3rd party services or having to build your own tool. [0] https://usertrack.net/

Wow that looks great, I might give it a go. Where is the screen recording feature, I saw it was advertised on the landing page but don't see it on the demo. Also is it open source?

Post by rmnclmnt » Fri, May 29, 2020, 4:16 PM UTC