Jamform Day 3: Jamform Alpha is LIVE!
Hard to believe it is only day three of working on JamForm! I guess being on Thanksgiving holiday away from work has allowed me to work way too many hours a day on this. If you missed it, I discussed in my previous thread that I was going to be working on a form backend service called Jamform. Today I'm happy to announce that the very-early-alpha-use-with-caution version is live! You can check it out yourself at https://jamform.com.
So far it has been a lot of fun working on it, and not a lot of hurdles to overcome, though I've barely scraped the surface with functionality and features. I think my biggest takeaway so far is that I'm actually EXCITED to keep working on it. Most of the time I try to push my projects to the bare minimum for release and then give up if it's not an instant success. With Jamform I feel like I'm in it for the long haul.
What have I done since the last post?
Well as you can see I got the basic MVP up and running on https://jamform.com, you can:
- View the homepage
- Sign up/sign in to your account
- Verify your email address
- Forgot your password functionality
- Create new forms
- View form submissions, setup instructions, and delete forms
- Submit forms to your Jamform endpoint to collect submissions
- Logout/change your password on your account page
- Contact support (that uses a Jamform form!)
To get to production I also:
- Created a separate prod database
- Deployed to Vercel and setup my domain
- Setup Sendgrid for transactional emails
What's next?
Next steps are to keep building out the basic functionality such as changing your email on file, sorting/deleting submissions, emailing you new submissions, etc. Then I'll start on the "must have" features including file uploads, spam prevention/recaptcha support, maybe start on Zapier integration. As I go I need to update my homepage to reflect any features I build. I also need to rework my TOS and privacy policy since I just used basic templates.
Thats all for now
As I said, lots to go still until I start really pitching it to people, but technically it is live and completely usable (though I'm sure there will be a few bugs) if you want to be a very early adopter. I'm going to have to take a break to celebrate thanksgiving but then it's right back to development!
Thanks for reading!
