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Re: Show HN: I made a form builder that saves data in Google Sheets

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Post by WaffleIronMaker » Sat, Nov 13, 2021, 4:38 AM UTC

sirius87 wrote: post #35

Each year for my nephew's birthday, I set up a web page with a guestbook for people we know to leave messages for him. I'm "tripod.com guestbook CGI scripts" years old. Each year I intend to write a tiny script that accepts form data and stores it in a Google Sheet, and deploy it to AWS Lambda. Maybe I'll finally do it this year? Or maybe I'll use your service ;)

Consider using Google Forms?

https://www.google.com/forms/about

Re: Show HN: I made a form builder that saves data in Google Sheets

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Post by jasonleowsg » Sat, Nov 13, 2021, 11:51 PM UTC

This is great. I use Google Forms a lot and love the tight seamless integration with Google Sheets, but hate the styling when embedded. This solves that problem well.

But the way you described it in the HN post header almost threw me off, made me think - "Isn't that Google Forms already? Why reinvent the wheel?" I wonder if targeting the painpoint of styling the embedded form would be a better proposition.

So instead of "A form builder that saves data in Google Sheets", what if it was something along the lines of "Custom styling for your ugly Google Forms."

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