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Re: Show HN: Typeform alternative, turns Markdown to forms

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mmastrac wrote: post #5

This style of form is aggravating to fill out, but kudos on making it beautiful. If you want to be kind to your users, allow them to scroll through the entire form, see it on one screen and ideally skip ahead without filling out required options but block submission.

You can actually have more than one form field within the same slide. I haven't made that very obvious, but one of the advantages here compared to Typeform is the flexibility.

Re: Show HN: Typeform alternative, turns Markdown to forms

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nikolayasdf123 wrote: post #44

nice product. but prohibitively expensive. 60$ and even more concerning "Varies" price for actual use is pretty much no-go for this product. if you are small startup this is too expensive, if you are big company, you might as well built it yourself. got to be cheaper! UPD: typeform charge more but they provide hosting and analytics, very convenient for people who don't want/cant to code anything. this library is "bri…

Hmm I'm still trying to figure out pricing. The "Varies" Enterprise option is just there so people who are interested and I can have a proper chat because the product is so new. Definitely not a typical sales call, although I haven't done a good job to explain that.

Re: Show HN: Typeform alternative, turns Markdown to forms

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rafram wrote: post #6

This is more like a DSL with Markdown embedded for the textual parts, but still cool. An actual Markdown syntax extension for forms would be interesting. [_____] for text fields?

I thought about the ____ syntax, but found it quite hard to fit in extra parameters in a nice way.

Re: Show HN: Typeform alternative, turns Markdown to forms

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breck wrote: post #38
bberenberg wrote: post #2

I feel like this falls into an uncanny valley between requiring the skill to cognitively model forms in your mind as text, which is fairly close to coding and using a form builder UI.

> uncanny valley Yes, but he's very close to the obvious solution that will spark web 4.0. Closest I've seen yet.

Would love to catch a chat with you about this if you don't mind. My email is tahmid(dot)hm(dot)dev(at)gmail.com.

Re: Show HN: Typeform alternative, turns Markdown to forms

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lottamus wrote: post #13

Looks interesting, but I’m having a hard time seeing why a team would adopt this over something like MDX. A comparison page between the two would be great!

Great idea, I want to build comparison pages like that, challenging to do everything on my own, but trying to manage.

Re: Show HN: Typeform alternative, turns Markdown to forms

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compootr wrote: post #39

Nice Design, however: 1. I don't understand why there's a pricing model for some CSS on forms. if I'm hosting the form & submission endpoint why do I need your backend (? not even sure what your role is here) 2. why not make it into a selfhosted typeform alternative; would be cooler than this saas bs

Thank you, yes trying to figure out the best way to market this product. A self-hosted Typeform alternative is definitely an idea on that list.

Re: Show HN: Typeform alternative, turns Markdown to forms

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Post by darkhorse13 »

codersfocus wrote: post #17

Why are you using Paddle? Using a MoR for a product like this is really dumb. MoRs are common in very shady areas (gambling, adult, etc.) where getting credit card processing approval is difficult. Yet some marketing genius has decided he can hoodwink indiehackers into giving him 12% of his revenue, while also hurting the indiehacker's sales.

This was the easiest and quickest to start with. I don't know about MoRs' reputation in general, I saw Tailwind using Paddle so figured I would too. By the way, I applied to Lemon Squeezy as well, but their verification process made me wait 2 weeks and then asked for an Instagram account, which was crazy because this is such a techy nerdy product.

Re: Show HN: Typeform alternative, turns Markdown to forms

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breck wrote: post #37

Oh this is right up my alley. Love it! Some really good design decisions. My user test: https://www.loom.com/share/9287cfe4e7024330bfe752ef8b9ad9bd

Hey, really appreciate this user test. Like I mentioned in another comment, I would love to catch a chat with you if you're interested: tahmid(dot)hm(dot)dev(at)gmail.com. Thanks again for taking the time to make a video.
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