[HN Gopher] Self-Hostable Form Back End - OSS Alternative to For...
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Self-Hostable Form Back End - OSS Alternative to Formspree
Author : Oia20
Score : 44 points
Date : 2025-01-06 19:19 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| n3storm wrote:
| We have really easily implemented this service with Nocodb. I
| think the only feature missing would be the pow catpcha.
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| I would like to have a moment in my life to write down how we
| have done it.
| Oia20 wrote:
| Nice! I've used Nocodb quite a bit myself, a big fan of it,
| especially as a free self hostable alternative to Airtables
| (which is way overpriced imo).
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| You have the form data being placed into a table, or being sent
| somewhere external?
| n3storm wrote:
| We store submitted data for a while and purge periodically.
|
| We have implemented a multitenant table for multiple
| websites, depending on which site has been contacted a
| different webhook is triggered for notification.
| Oia20 wrote:
| very cool setup, I would be interested to read more into it
| if you do get around to writing it down!
| n3storm wrote:
| Also, we have tried in the past a Nocodb json field but was
| buggy. Nocodb 0.260 has been recently released and we would
| like to give it a try again to store extra data in some
| forms, like "Type of enquiry" or Support like contact forms,
| without having to create a table for each case.
|
| We are succesfully using Nocodb as a Headless CMS too (for
| +10 microsites)
| satvikpendem wrote:
| This used to be what StaticKit did...until they were acquired by
| Formspree.
| Oia20 wrote:
| interesting, I hadn't heard of StaticKit, looks like they were
| acquired by FormSpree in 2020, as I write this I realize that's
| now 5 Calendar years ago... Time is flying lol
| satvikpendem wrote:
| The founder was one of the cofounders of Drip, and now he
| runs SavvyCal. Apparently StaticKit wasn't profitable enough
| to run as a viable business.
| Oia20 wrote:
| Did statickit function as more than just a form backend? I
| do feel like a form backend alone is hard to run as a
| viable business, but I find it to be an interesting enough
| problem to maintain an open source solution for.
| satvikpendem wrote:
| Only a backend with some frontend React components if I
| remember correctly
| alin23 wrote:
| In case others are looking for a cheaper alternative to
| Formspree, I've been using https://formspark.io/ for all my
| websites [1] [2] [3]
|
| I paid $25 a few years ago (can't even remember when) and I still
| have 47k out of the 50k submission credits I bought.
|
| But I love to see a self-hostable alternative available,
| especially one that's as easy to use as running a `docker-
| compose` command. Sometimes you just need that control.
|
| For example in my case, I would get app support emails all day
| and night, and even if I had DND enabled, I would wake to 3-6
| emails that accumulated over night and my mornings would get
| hectic instantly. I would forget to eat for a long time and my
| mood would be irritable all day.
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| I had to place my own small API in front of Formspark to delay
| the emails for specific times of the day to avoid this. Something
| like FormBee would allow me to alter this in the server code
| directly instead of building yet another API.
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| [1] https://lowtechguys.com/contact
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| [2] https://lunar.fyi/contact
|
| [3] https://alinpanaitiu.com/contact
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