Just shipped German 🇩🇪 — and DSGVO made it an obvious target

Today I launched German language support for https://formpuppy.com — an AI email filter that sits between your contact form and inbox, blocking spam and cold sales outreach before it reaches you.

The product now supports English, Japanese, and German. Full UI translation, localized landing page, and two German blog posts targeting DSGVO-related keywords.

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Why Germany specifically?

I noticed a painful irony for German businesses: they're drowning in contact form spam, but the obvious fix — adding reCAPTCHA — creates a DSGVO headache. Google reCAPTCHA sends IP addresses, browser fingerprints, and behavior profiles to US servers. Several German data protection authorities have questioned the legal basis for this. So German SMBs are stuck.

formpuppy works at the email layer, not the form layer. No JavaScript loaded on the visitor's browser. No third-party requests on form submit. You just swap your notification email address — setup takes 5 minutes.

It's not a perfect DSGVO story (you still sign a DPA with us), but it sidesteps the visitor-side tracking issue entirely.

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Still early days. Would love feedback from anyone building for the DACH market — what am I missing about how German SMBs think about this?