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Re: Show HN: Mailik – Effortlessly Receive Form Responses in Your Inbox

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Post by PondSwimmer »

iambateman wrote: post #22
maxibenner wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious to hear if you generally prefer to manage client's forms and billing through your own account or have them create their own and share credentials with you?

I think in a full build out, being able to manage forms+billing through a "developer account" that allows me to manage their stuff would be nice. I would _especially_ like that the developer account gets like 3 free forms as long as clients are paying.

This idea needs exploring. It is good, but a little bit complicated.

Re: Show HN: Mailik – Effortlessly Receive Form Responses in Your Inbox

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Post by maxibenner »

pkage wrote: post #19

I like this! I feel like I've written a half-version of this a dozen times, it's nice to see a version which is fully fleshed out. One feature request: you could likely fully remove the need for an NPM package by accepting POST requests from forms, and staple the API key in with either the URL or an —is that in the roadmap?

That's what I did here: https://www.simplecontactform.org The presentation isn't fleshed out because we mostly use it for our agency clients but it is the most minimal version I could come up with.

Re: Show HN: Mailik – Effortlessly Receive Form Responses in Your Inbox

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Post by oczek »

ranger_danger wrote: post #35
PondSwimmer wrote: post #30

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No. We produce a lot of open source - we can definitely provide version to self-host later.

> We produce a lot of open source Got a link?

https://github.com/aexol-studio

Re: Show HN: Mailik – Effortlessly Receive Form Responses in Your Inbox

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Post by Fire-Dragon-DoL »

PondSwimmer wrote: post #29
pkage wrote: post #19

I like this! I feel like I've written a half-version of this a dozen times, it's nice to see a version which is fully fleshed out. One feature request: you could likely fully remove the need for an NPM package by accepting POST requests from forms, and staple the API key in with either the URL or an —is that in the roadmap?

Good idea! We will add it!

I'd love this service but how are you going to handle bots? I wanted this for my personal website which will maybe receive an email once per month in the best case scenario, but with lambdas there is always the risk of having a malicious actor coming in and pushing your bill to astronomical levels

Re: Show HN: Mailik – Effortlessly Receive Form Responses in Your Inbox

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Post by Fire-Dragon-DoL »

maxibenner wrote: post #34
pkage wrote: post #19

I like this! I feel like I've written a half-version of this a dozen times, it's nice to see a version which is fully fleshed out. One feature request: you could likely fully remove the need for an NPM package by accepting POST requests from forms, and staple the API key in with either the URL or an —is that in the roadmap?

That's what I did here: https://www.simplecontactform.org The presentation isn't fleshed out because we mostly use it for our agency clients but it is the most minimal version I could come up with.

I always liked the idea for your service but the pricing didn't work (to be clear: it's not your fault, I'm not sure it is solvable). I wanted to use it for my personal website which will receive maybe 10 emails through the year (if I'm lucky), but at $5/month I can just spin up my own VPS, which can do way more than sending me emails.

Re: Show HN: Mailik – Effortlessly Receive Form Responses in Your Inbox

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Post by maxibenner »

Fire-Dragon-DoL wrote: post #38
maxibenner wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what I did here: https://www.simplecontactform.org The presentation isn't fleshed out because we mostly use it for our agency clients but it is the most minimal version I could come up with.

I always liked the idea for your service but the pricing didn't work (to be clear: it's not your fault, I'm not sure it is solvable). I wanted to use it for my personal website which will receive maybe 10 emails through the year (if I'm lucky), but at $5/month I can just spin up my own VPS, which can do way more than sending me emails.

That makes total sense. I set this up for our agency clients to be able to integrate email sending on a static site without having to manage a server or dive into spam filtering. For them the decreased complexity and time saved alone is usually worth the price.

Re: Show HN: Mailik – Effortlessly Receive Form Responses in Your Inbox

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Post by Fire-Dragon-DoL »

maxibenner wrote: post #39
Fire-Dragon-DoL wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always liked the idea for your service but the pricing didn't work (to be clear: it's not your fault, I'm not sure it is solvable). I wanted to use it for my personal website which will receive maybe 10 emails through the year (if I'm lucky), but at $5/month I can just spin up my own VPS, which can do way more than sending me emails.

That makes total sense. I set this up for our agency clients to be able to integrate email sending on a static site without having to manage a server or dive into spam filtering. For them the decreased complexity and time saved alone is usually worth the price.

I see! Makes sense, thank you for the response
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