Formpost.co
Infrastructure
form handling service
SHOW HN2016
19points
7comments
#1,233of 2,264 in 2016
Top 55%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
1 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 3 comments about the project.
Idea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Email alias avoids exposing addresses and removes need to validate each page
From 2 comments
This is great. I've used https://formspree.io before, but it was a headache to obfuscate the emails, so your alias functionality looks awesome. Do you have any sending limits…
ezekg on HNSo with formspree you had to validate every page I believe. Which was impossible for my use case, I wanted to add contact forms at the bottom of each blog post and didn't want to…
unfathomable on HN
Objections
Soft cap of 200 emails per hour
From 1 comment
Thank you! Right now during this phase we don't have any imposed sending limits, but we do have a soft cap of 200 emails per hour. This is simply to combat against spam. If…
therov on HN
Requests
File upload forwarding
From 2 comments
Can this handle file uploads as a forward? Or do you have any plans to include that functionality?
ekpyrotic on HNThis is a planned feature that will most likely come out with the custom fields in the beginning of the year.
therov on HN
Multiple aliases and alias forwarding
From 1 comment
Thank you! Right now during this phase we don't have any imposed sending limits, but we do have a soft cap of 200 emails per hour. This is simply to combat against spam. If…
therov on HN
Questions
Whether the form works across changing blog post URLs
From 2 comments
So with formspree you had to validate every page I believe. Which was impossible for my use case, I wanted to add contact forms at the bottom of each blog post and didn't want to…
unfathomable on HNThis is not a problem for formpost. The alias is all you need to get your form. If you have a contact form on each blog post you will receive a submitted form regardless of URL.
therov on HN
Sending limits and monetization plans
From 2 comments
This is great. I've used https://formspree.io before, but it was a headache to obfuscate the emails, so your alias functionality looks awesome. Do you have any sending limits…
ezekg on HNThank you! Right now during this phase we don't have any imposed sending limits, but we do have a soft cap of 200 emails per hour. This is simply to combat against spam. If…
therov on HN
Alternatives named
Formspree
From 2 comments
This is great. I've used https://formspree.io before, but it was a headache to obfuscate the emails, so your alias functionality looks awesome. Do you have any sending limits…
ezekg on HNSo with formspree you had to validate every page I believe. Which was impossible for my use case, I wanted to add contact forms at the bottom of each blog post and didn't want to…
unfathomable on HN