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Launched JSONPost: a headless formbackend I built to scratch my own itch

Hey IH đź‘‹

For years I’ve been juggling multiple websites — at one point I was running 15+ little directories and projects. The funny thing is, the hardest recurring problem wasn’t SEO or traffic… it was forms.

Contact forms ended up wired to random inboxes I forgot to check.
Client sign-up forms all used different hacks (PHP mail, Zapier, Netlify).
Feedback forms had data scattered across Google Sheets and Airtable.

It felt dumb — every frontend was modern (Astro, Next.js, React), but the backend for handling submissions was stuck in 2007.

So I hacked together something small for myself: a universal form backend where I could point all my forms to a single endpoint and see submissions in one place. Slowly, I added:

Email notifications with templates
Webhooks for Slack/Zapier
Spam protection
CSV exports
Basic analytics

That little internal tool became JSONPost
🎉 — and I’m making it public today.

What’s live now:

Free tier with 500 submissions/month

Centralized dashboard
Email notifications
Webhooks
Spam protection

Who it’s for:

Freelancers & agencies who manage multiple client sites and don’t want 10 different backend hacks.
No-code builders (Webflow, Carrd, Bubble) who need a plug-and-play backend for forms.
Indie founders launching MVPs/landing pages without backend boilerplate.

👉 I’m looking for early beta testers who can push it to the limits. If you sign up, you’ll get an email from me personally — and I’d love to hear how it fits (or doesn’t fit) into your workflow.

Link: https://jsonpost.com

Would love feedback from this community:

Do you already centralize form submissions? How?

What’s the #1 feature you’d expect from a “universal form backend”?

Would you consider this part of your stack, or just stick with Zapier/Sheets forever?

Thanks IH — excited (and a little nervous) to put this out there 🚀

on September 22, 2025
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