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PSA: You can do the same thing with Google Forms + Sheets. Here's how to post to a Google Form: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18073971/http-post-to-a-...
This was just a personal project that I made available in case anyone else had a need for it :)
You’re presumably storing a lot of personal data - perhaps inadvertently. How are you handling the minefield of data protection?
I don't think anyone is using his service, including himself. This page on his personal website uses a google form. https://www.yupitszac.com/life-of-a-contractor/
As for user counts, one of the benefits of it being a personal project is that I don't have to share or defend that. It's a service that's there, if you want it feel free to use it. If not, that's completely okay too
I'll add that form to my list for conversion though, so at least thanks for that :)
You’re presumably storing a lot of personal data - perhaps inadvertently. How are you handling the minefield of data protection?
In the case of Form King, all transport is over TLS, with the RDS instances being encrypted at rest. When a form is submitted, the data is encrypted and uses the AES-256-CBC cipher prior to storage. I just didn't want to store other people's data in plain text. Form could include names, and emails, and addresses. It's also signed with a MAC to ensure the data isn't modified.
This is probably some information I should include on the website as well (It's a personal project that I just work on in the evenings and weekends, so I had to prioritize stuff and the marketing website was one of the lowest :) )
Now, keeping in mind that I'm no security expert beyond what's standard for production applications, this is the area of any service that worries me the most and it'll remain a top priority to continue enhancing the security of the app.
Cool stuff. If you are interested in doing multipage forms and need something that already has a form editor UI, check out the open source and web components. Disclaimer, I'm a contributor to those projects.
Is there a privacy policy? I couldn't find one, but maybe I didn't look in the right place. How do you intend to monetize? It is important to make sure your business plan aligns with my potential use cases. Small typo: it is misspelled as ti on the landing page. It looks cool and I'll give it a try, but I need to know more than is obviously apparent from your site before I can use it for real.
Privacy policy, yea. I gotta get one of those up. Incredibly important things like that and terms of use should be sorted right away. This is one of the things I forget about in my personal projects (like FormKing) that I really should stop forgetting :)
As for monetization, that's not my goal. One thing I don't think I communicated well is that this isn't a business. It's a personal project that I intend to open source shortly. The cost for the service (hosting, domains, etc) is super low so for right now I'm not looking to monetize.
Form King was literally just something I built for use with my websites that I had a lot of fun working on. So I made it public
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Back of napkin calculation: assuming low costs, $100/year is on the order of 1000 users per software engineer if the engineer also does support. Make it $10/year and the engineer has 10k users to support. 10x users mean 10x probabilities of long tail support events. The long tail of support is unbounded in negative consequences while the best support interaction is zero bound. It’s not worth building a business for u…
I understand why one wouldn't necessarily target users who just need a contact form for noncommercial use. However, you could have a business product that allows for team access to forms + support that offsets the cost of the super low cost personal accounts that can't share forms or form results or use support. The actual computational resources required by personal users is likely to be minuscule, especially for so…
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 :)
I've been recently looking for form solutions Free https://www.staticforms.xyz/ https://formsubmit.co/ Paid https://formbucket.com/ https://formspree.io/ You can also check out Netlify Forms
I'm currently using formsubmit and I'm pretty happy so far. As far as I know, I haven't had any issues getting responses
Anyway a few more I found when I had to switch last time, I went with usebasin.
https://liveformhq.com/ https://www.formbackend.com/ https://www.netlify.com/products/forms/ https://formbucket.com/ https://www.formking.io/ https://formspree.io/ https://www.staticforms.xyz/ https://formcarry.com/ https://formkeep.com/
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There's a donation button at the top of the page. Also, perhaps it's going to gauge volume and costs before developing a premium model. Looks like an early adopter model. Also, providing a service like this with the trade off being able to use and learn from the data for improving the product isn't uncommon (google forms, google mail...). One thought I had that could avoid the harvesting data aspect would be to encry…
... but where would the encryption happen? You're still just hoping they don't harvest before the encryption step.