How do you add forms to your website?

Zapier gets you a free Zap with unlimited entries. I set up a webhook that accepts JSON and inserts the data into a Google Sheet. Your static HTML form can then just shoot an AJAX request to the Zapier webhook. Completely free and works well. Let me know if you need more info.

Could try out FlexyForm - https://www.indiehackers.com/product/flexyform. Saw it posted a few days ago :). Free tier (50 form submissions/month) might even be enough, depending on how much traffic you're expecting.

TypeForm is pretty nice. A cross-provider option would be StaticKit.

Use the sign-up form of your mailing list service (MailChimp etc).

That way you can email the signed up people with updates of your progress and continue nurturing the relationship. Otherwise, you'll be proudly watching a list of email addresses that you've collected with generic form, while the leads grow cold and forget you...

I've had success using Form Spree (https://formspree.io/)

Check out Typeform, pretty simple to setup and embedded dynamic forms.

I use https://carrd.co/ with AirTable. I know you said your wouldn’t be using something like Carrd, but I believe AirTable has a pretty solid way to submit form data into their system whether embed or API submitting.

https://statickit.com/ for 100 free submissions, most solutions start costing around $10+ a month for 1000 submissions.

You can also look at embedding them from a email marketing platform like Mailchimp, but they're usually hard to edit and can slow the page down a lot.

If you think you're going to get more than 100 submissions a month and the landing page is for a SaaS have a look at https://versoly.com/ we do 1000 submissions and handle your hosting. We're also about to launch blogs so you don't have to self host that.

I've tried several tools such as typeform.com, surveysparrow.com and the form features at airtable.com - I end up using typeform.com for my side project. It works pretty well so far, easy to implement and customize.

I have done it with netlify for https://vaultasy.com
I just created a landing page and captured the form entries (emails) through netlify (just added a bunch of ids to the form html if I remember correctly.

Does it sound like what you are looking for?

There are lots of form backend products you could use if you want to maintain control of content and styling for your form. Take a look at https://www.indiehackers.com/product/basin, as I'm confident it would fit the bill. I founded it though, so I'm biased ;)

Are you planning to capture email addresses with these forms? If so, I would use the ones from email marketing platforms like Mailchimp and Mailerlite - you can customize the form design to match your existing template and just copy and paste the embed code. This is the easiest way and also makes sure you're complying with opt-in requirements.

Hi,

I implemented same thing for https://pageam.com (subscribe for the early access) using https://formito.com. The free plan could cover such a basic email collection.

P.S. I'm the maker of both products.