[HN Gopher] Show HN: SnoopForms - Open-Source Typeform Alternative
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Show HN: SnoopForms - Open-Source Typeform Alternative
Author : beanclap
Score : 107 points
Date : 2022-08-01 10:16 UTC (12 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (snoopforms.com)
| RichardDL wrote:
| Great looking site! It took less than a minute to create a first
| form. Very intuitive. Just the 'Submit' button on the form create
| page was a bit confusing as it didn't do anything. Good job!
| bobbitthehobbit wrote:
| As a former Typeform user, I like this. I actually like that it
| doesn't look too much like Typeform. I did notice in a comment
| that you want to have an option to "Typformerize" a form, which
| is neat because it gives the user the option for it even if I
| wouldn't use it myself. I also really like your landing page
| design, very easy to parse and read.
| paulgb wrote:
| This is very cool, there's definitely a need for something that
| sits between the completely no-code tools and a completely DIY
| approach.
|
| Your submission-based pricing is also very approachable to small-
| volume forms -- the industry standard is about a $25-35 minimum
| monthly, and even though there's often a free tier it usually
| includes a small subset of features.
|
| One thing that's a blocker for me at the moment is that I can't
| seem to add text besides the field name to a field in the no-code
| tool. It's useful for providing instructions on the field, but I
| don't see a way to do it.
|
| Overall this feels pretty polished, I'm impressed.
| matthiasnannt wrote:
| thanks for the feedback, Paul :-) currently you can add text
| blocks above or below the questions and add there any
| instructions you like. but you are right, there are no
| dedicated help texts, etc. at the moment. but I think we will
| have a good solution for that very soon
| throwawayaway9 wrote:
| From the name "snoop" forms, I genuinely thought this was some
| kind of tracking/telemetry forms tool. It's not.
| beanclap wrote:
| hey! Interesting, this is kinda where we came from.
|
| We thought that with a form you always try to get as much
| information as possible, hence your "snooping" around.
|
| You took it a step further, good that extensive form analytics
| are coming :)
| nprateem wrote:
| I wouldn't want to have to list on my privacy policy that we
| use a tool called snoop anything.
|
| Change the name.
| beanclap wrote:
| fair point, we'll consider
| aaaaaaaaata wrote:
| SomethingForm (by SnoopTool)
| beanclap wrote:
| forms.com :D
| dotcoma wrote:
| OpenForms dot something
| tailspin2019 wrote:
| Sadly I have to agree.
|
| Data privacy is a key driver for me to not use something
| like Typeform and to choose something with supposedly
| better privacy features.
|
| It's a shame to nitpick on the name, but I do feel that
| having "snoop" in the brand name is not a good move for the
| target audience segment that I fall into!
| samatman wrote:
| I don't disagree in this case, yet Little Snitch doesn't
| really have this problem. Then again, it's more obvious
| that the Snitch is on your side.
| r_hoods_ghost wrote:
| Yep. My gdpr obsessed dpo would have kittens. Other than
| that it looks great!
| tylermenezes wrote:
| Wow this is awesome! We have been building similar pipelines on
| top of CognitoForms but this is a much easier fit.
| lmarcos wrote:
| Looks great! Is there a company (e.g., LLC) behind this? I don't
| see any information about it in the Imprint section.
| beanclap wrote:
| hoi!
|
| we just launched the first public beta of Typeform open-source
| tool snoopForms.
|
| Apart from OS, we want to differentiate by:
|
| - offering code & no-code interfaces to create forms (beta) -
| offering in-depth form analytics & improvement tools like A/B
| testing (tba) - granular and conditional data piping i.e. "if
| newsletter checkbox is set, send name & email field to SendGrid".
| Essentially, well integrated and GDPR compliant Zapier
|
| What do you think?
| FionnMc wrote:
| Will handling signatures be on your roadmap?
| aviramha wrote:
| Awesome. Always good to have more open source products. Will
| you make it easier to make forms look like Typeform?
| beanclap wrote:
| Hey! Yes, this has been requested a few times. Thinking of a
| "Typformerize" Toggle :)
| sebastianconcpt wrote:
| Is that politically loaded marketing working?
| beanclap wrote:
| what do you mean? Elon?
| sebastianconcpt wrote:
| Yes, do you see an impact in conversion if you A/B test that
| with or without political load?
| jebronie wrote:
| Why do you respond in such a hostile manner to a legitimate
| question? Why even put this stuff on the page? It makes you
| look like a really bitter, childish and hateful person.
| elliottcarlson wrote:
| I took his response to be that of uncertainty, and asking
| if it was related to the (definitely inappropriate) Elon
| reference. Your response is coming across just as hostile,
| as is the top-level comment you posted. There are other
| ways you could have approached both of these comments.
| scottydelta wrote:
| I might be an outlier but not a big fan of the pricing model.
|
| $0.02 per submission can get very expensive very fast. For 10,000
| submissions, it will cost the user $200 where as Typeform costs
| $83 for the same[1]. Is it really that expensive to store 10,000
| rows of data?
|
| I understand the other features provided with the storage such as
| analytics and integrations but it still doesn't justify the cost
| imo.
|
| While you can argue that you offer self-hosting as well and as
| someone who is a big fan of self-hosting(I self-host over 8+
| apps[2]), It's another thing I can self-host if I need to someday
| and I thank you for making it self-hostable/open-source. But from
| my experience, only very technical users self-host apps.
|
| [1] https://www.typeform.com/pricing/
|
| [2] https://vikashbajaj.substack.com/p/the-slippery-slope-of-
| sel...
| twostorytower wrote:
| If it's really not that expensive, couldn't you just self-host
| it? I think the developer is just trying to make a reasonable
| amount for providing a service for those who don't want to
| self-host.
| scottydelta wrote:
| As someone who self-hosts a lot of apps myself[1], I can
| assure you it's not easy to self-host/maintain the apps. Even
| for very technical people, it still takes a lot of effort to
| self-host apps(setup server, run in docker, configure a web
| proxy like caddy/nginx, provision ssl certificates, add
| firewall security etc) along with doing regular db backups
| just for one person.
|
| [1] https://vikashbajaj.substack.com/p/the-slippery-slope-of-
| sel...
| victor106 wrote:
| I am sorry I failed to understand, so you just want
| everything for free?
|
| The developer should not only open source his/her work but
| also host it free for you?
| scottydelta wrote:
| Typeform costs $83 for 10,000 responses[1](it's reliable,
| been around for almost a decade, used by leading
| companies around the world and it provides way more
| features than this) where as snoopforms will cost $200
| for the same number of responses. That is more than 200%
| markup.
|
| I am merely comparing prices here.
|
| [1] https://www.typeform.com/pricing/
| the_common_man wrote:
| Try something like cloudron or yunohost for selfhosting
| scottydelta wrote:
| I will try them out, thanks for the suggestion
| hhw3h wrote:
| Is there a form SaaS that allows the admin to give feedback on
| the form submission and then have the user resubmit their form?
|
| I run a coaching business and I'd like my students to be able to
| submit their work for feedback and review. Then if they need to
| make changes, I'd like to make it as easy as possible for them to
| resubmit the form with tweaks to their submission.
| social_quotient wrote:
| I love this pricing model of .02 per submission for the pro plan.
| Often, as an agency, our customer or project needs are "lumpy" in
| terms of usage and the monthly base fees are a serious margin
| killer. The usage based fee like a cloud provider would charge is
| awesome for our use case.
| beanclap wrote:
| that was the idea, great to hear it resonates!
| nivertech wrote:
| Is there a hard limit/upper cap?
|
| What stops some spammer from ramming the bill?
| samatman wrote:
| This is very important. I'm rather averse to signing up for
| paid service which is only limited by the option I provide
| for payments. It took me years to be willing to put a
| service on autopay which is merely variable, such as a
| power bill.
| maxwell_smart wrote:
| You should really fix the spelling of "HIPAA" on the front page
| if you want to be taken seriously as advertising a HIPAA-
| compliant piece of software.
| jebronie wrote:
| Since you are german: Your website is in violation of the GDPR
| and german law in general. Fix those problems immediately or I
| will report you.
| lorn3 wrote:
| Yikes. Even the Discord embed is saving some cookies. How can
| you launch something in this day and age and not loose a single
| thought on GDPR?
| lloydatkinson wrote:
| Who pissed in your cereal?
| [deleted]
| matthiasnannt wrote:
| You are right, sorry about that. In the last iteration of our
| footer redesign these informations were accidentally removed.
| We have added the pages again and republished the website.
| Since the discord plugin also concerned you, we now removed it
| from our website.
| jebronie wrote:
| Great
| twostorytower wrote:
| There's a way to point this out without the hostility.
| jebronie wrote:
| I threatened the report because I wanted to annoy the OP who
| seems to be a leftist. I can only threaten OP this way
| because leftists created this stupid GDPR legislation, which
| I have to deal with almost every day.
|
| A report to the ULD will also most likely only result in a
| slap on the wrist.
|
| I actually did them a favor by pointing out their problems,
| because some german law firms use crawlers to detect GDPR and
| other violations. They then send cease-and-desist orders and
| collect expensive legal fees for that.
| bastardoperator wrote:
| Is there an API to pull answers from?
| matthiasnannt wrote:
| we don't have an official API documentation yet. But we have a
| REST-API for everything that the frontend uses, so that
| shouldn't be a problem.
| xwowsersx wrote:
| Nice project. I'm not sure about the name though. "snoop" has
| some nefarious connotations..."snooping around":
|
| > investigate or look around furtively in an attempt to find out
| something, _especially information about someone 's private
| affairs._
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