Show HN: Secure Typeform and Jotform Replacement – at lower cost
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Show HN: Secure Typeform and Jotform Replacement – at lower cost
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Re: Show HN: Secure Typeform and Jotform Replacement – at lower cost
#2this is years of work. taking on the big guys in the industry. wish us luck.
Re: Show HN: Secure Typeform and Jotform Replacement – at lower cost
#3Looks like the recent Twitter hack tells us about potential security risks when it comes to data collection as well ;)!
First impression is good! Will try it out!
Re: Show HN: Secure Typeform and Jotform Replacement – at lower cost
#4this is years of work. taking on the big guys in the industry. wish us luck.
I'd suggest a name change. It doesn't seem to relate to forms at all, which will make it hard for users to remember and awkward to share.
Re: Show HN: Secure Typeform and Jotform Replacement – at lower cost
#5Unfortunately, this does not seem to be suitable for replacing Typeform, as the design is not really competing with the design that Typeform is providing. Quick look at the three examples on the landing page shows inconsistent white-spacing, poor contrast, not-ideal color matchings and outdated design in the forms (especially the bullets from the example in the middle, that almost look like a bug).
It's great to see a platform focused on security though, as Typeform has less-than-stellar record regarding that.
Something else that quickly got noticed was the long loading times when changing page.
Would be awesome to see "offline forms" feature though, maybe you could share a bit on how you are thinking of the implementation of that? When I used to work at Typeform (many many years ago), we had some smaller chats around it, and I think we always ended up in the corner of either having the users needing to keep the browser tab open until online (feels unlikely) or providing a native app for supporting background tasks.
Re: Show HN: Secure Typeform and Jotform Replacement – at lower cost
#6this is years of work. taking on the big guys in the industry. wish us luck.
I'd suggest a name change. It doesn't seem to relate to forms at all, which will make it hard for users to remember and awkward to share.
its a bit too late for that now!!! but yeah I know what you mean. the name has a story behind it because this whole thing was built with a service focus that's not specifically related to forms, and there will be more branches totally unrelated to forms later too. A bit like Richard Bransons "Virgin" branding, except way poorer. In future they will likely be under their own subdomains. https://www.globalpatron.com/blog/our-startup-story/
Re: Show HN: Secure Typeform and Jotform Replacement – at lower cost
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd suggest a name change. It doesn't seem to relate to forms at all, which will make it hard for users to remember and awkward to share.
its a bit too late for that now!!! but yeah I know what you mean. the name has a story behind it because this whole thing was built with a service focus that's not specifically related to forms, and there will be more branches totally unrelated to forms later too. A bit like Richard Bransons "Virgin" branding, except way poorer. In future they will likely be under their own subdomains. https://www.globalpatron.com/bl…
oh one thing! did you mean people will feel awkward to share the link to the platform, or a link to their forms? (the forms themselves can be embedded in any website/domain).
Thanks for your feedback btw. it's valuable.
Re: Show HN: Secure Typeform and Jotform Replacement – at lower cost
#8Unfortunately, this does not seem to be suitable for replacing Typeform, as the design is not really competing with the design that Typeform is providing. Quick look at the three examples on the landing page shows inconsistent white-spacing, poor contrast, not-ideal color matchings and outdated design in the forms (especially the bullets from the example in the middle, that almost look like a bug). It's great to see…
thanks for the feedback Victor, it's appreciated. I'll get some professionally selected colour themes/designs added. Fortunately that's easy to do. The screenshots on the homepage don't do justice to what users can actually do in terms of styling so i'll get those screenshots replaced too (users can edit almost anything, padding, borders, colours, navigation styles, even add transitions). I'll ask a pro designer to create some forms in the editor, and we'll save the styles as pre-made themes that others can use.
Was there anything else you felt stood out as needing improvement?
Yeah offline forms will be cool. All of the form types (currently Typeform, multi-step, and classic single step), will work offline. It's on our dev mobile phones atm, but we're not releasing it yet until some additional security checks and cleanups are done. It's native apps so they can collect responses, files etc, then the app later pushes to server when they are in an internet-available area.