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AnyForm: Google Forms as a form backend (also, customize Google Forms!)

Hey everyone

I'm looking for beta testers for my product, AnyForm (https://anyform.co/). AnyForm lets you hook up an HTML+CSS form to a Google Form. It's Google Forms with customization and it's a backend-free form for your website.

Skip to TL;DR if you want!

I put up lots of landing pages, and that means I setup lots of forms ('contact us', 'feedback', etc.). Setting up lots of forms means I deal with a lot of frustration, because it's a slog to setup a backend just for a form. There's an ocean of static form providers out there, but I've yet to find one that I'm really happy with + trust. Frankly, just trying to evaluate all the options gives me a headache. And I hate settling.

One day it occurred to me that Google Forms is actually everything I'm looking for in a form solution — integrates with sheets, emails me responses, the whole story (and all without Zapier/Integromat). The only problem is that the forms are real ugly. A Google Form embed will never match the style of your brand/landing page.

So, one day I hacked away for quite some time and managed to cobble together a Frankenstein solution which let me connect a simple HTML+CSS form to a Google Form I made.

This was great for a short while — I'd essentially found a way to "customize Google Forms". I was walking on sunshine for a week or two. Then came the inevitable realization: the Frankenstein was difficult to update, maintain and extend. And heavens forbid Google make any changes to its page layout. I got to work on improving the Frankenstein, to the point that it was no longer a Frankenstein, but actually quite pleasant to use.

At some point along this short journey, it occurred to me that many others must have this problem too. Either you're someone who loves Google Forms but hates its lack of customization, or you're someone who - despite the ocean of options - hasn't found a good form solution yet.

To answer to this problem, I've built AnyForm (https://anyform.co/). It's Google Forms as a backend for any form you've designed.

TL;DR

  • AnyForm lets you hook up an HTML+CSS form to a Google Form. It's Google Forms with customization and it's a backend-free form for your website.
  • Google Forms is a great backend for your site's forms because it comes packed with sheets integration, email notifications and other goodies.
  • I'm looking for beta testers at the moment - you'll get a 30% discount for joining!
  • You can sign up (and see AnyForm in action) here: https://anyform.co/
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on May 4, 2020
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