Is my form builder helpful?
Short & sweet:
I made a form builder to help devs build forms quickly and easily. You can build forms and grab the HTML for free without signing up.
The longer story:
I've always hated writing form code so I built a form builder and form backend to help make handling forms really easy. I thought devs would love the idea of using a form builder and API to add forms to their websites and collect submissions.
It seems that I was entirely wrong since I've really struggled to get devs excited about it. Because of that, I've made the form builder completely free - you don't even have to create an account.
Making the form builder public has two main goals:
- To give devs the tool I wish I had earlier in my career
- To figure out if other devs find it useful and how I can improve it
Give it a try: https://app.fetchforms.io/form-builder
Any and all feedback is welcome!
I made this mistake of going free hoping to get more users. Funnily, it's usually the opposite - you go from useless & free to saving a lot of time + decent pricing. Can help you figure out positioning to make this leap or to pivot it such way that people pay to join, let's connect on Twitter.
I'll reach out!
Your project is almost identical to an abandoned project I wrote a couple of years ago. I also implemented a webhook system to push form captures to custom endpoints. For reasons other than the product it never really got a proper launch because both myself and my partner got burned out before getting traction.
I had built it because of a single client I had at the time who wanted to have single pages capturing leads for his products. We did speak to a other few people before writing it.
One thing I've noticed about developers in general (and this is a sweeping generalisation) is that they don't like to pay for anything they can write for themselves,e even if it means spending an inordinate amount of time building it from scratch. I personally would pay for something as a one-off but I never like the ongoing expense of hosting something like form capture.
However, I think a developer building on behalf of their own client would be happy to shortcut the build process provided their client is willing to foot the ongoing cost. It's really that client who wants to collect and use the data and be able to wire it up to forward to other services like Slack, Zapier and so forth.
I think you've done a great job getting your project to where it is now. I know personally that there is a lot of work that goes into this.
You're 100% right about devs not wanting to buy things they can build. One of my ideas for this is to sell it as a self-hosted app. So customers would pay one time and then could host it themselves forever.
That's definitely pointing at bigger companies!