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Show HN: I made a form builder that saves data in Google Sheets

142 pointsby a_bandover 3 years ago

15 comments

eatonphilover 3 years ago
That is what Google Forms does, but it looks like you&#x27;ve added the benefit of more custom styling which Google Forms is not very flexible about.<p>I run my blog&#x27;s subscription system off of Google Forms -&gt; Google Sheets. It&#x27;s free and very simple but I definitely don&#x27;t like how ugly Google Forms is.
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sirius87over 3 years ago
Each year for my nephew&#x27;s birthday, I set up a web page with a guestbook for people we know to leave messages for him. I&#x27;m &quot;tripod.com guestbook CGI scripts&quot; years old.<p>Each year I intend to write a tiny script that accepts form data and stores it in a Google Sheet, and deploy it to AWS Lambda. Maybe I&#x27;ll finally do it this year? Or maybe I&#x27;ll use your service ;)
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advisedwangover 3 years ago
Neat project. Are you worried that SurveyMonkey will attack you for having a similar name to their trademark?
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livatlantisover 3 years ago
Although I&#x27;m not in the target audience (because Google), I think some of my less nerdy friends would find this extremely useful. I&#x27;ve had quite a few ask me for an easy way to create a quick form to gather responses when organising an event or to run a little survey. Thanks for creating it, bookmarked. Will recommend.
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hardtkeover 3 years ago
I&#x27;ve been asked to maintain the contact info for a non profit club. Something like this is almost what I need, but I would also need to be able to edit existing entries as well as to run some simple queries (who has not paid their dues?). Does any such cloud based open source software exist? CRM systems are overkill, and there are some downloadable tools, but nothing cloud based AFAIK.
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Biologist123over 3 years ago
This is great. Two questions:<p>1. Could I have “code” in subsequent sheets to manipulate data coming in through the form and output results.<p>2. Could you embed questions in an android app? If you could I would immediately have a lot of use for this.<p>Thanks and well done!
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jasonleowsgover 3 years ago
This is great. I use Google Forms a lot and love the tight seamless integration with Google Sheets, but hate the styling when embedded. This solves that problem well.<p>But the way you described it in the HN post header almost threw me off, made me think - &quot;Isn&#x27;t that Google Forms already? Why reinvent the wheel?&quot; I wonder if targeting the painpoint of styling the embedded form would be a better proposition.<p>So instead of &quot;A form builder that saves data in Google Sheets&quot;, what if it was something along the lines of &quot;Custom styling for your ugly Google Forms.&quot;
mro_nameover 3 years ago
I wonder what this enthusiasm to throw data at google should be good for.<p>I made a commandline binary <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mro.name&#x2F;form2xhtml" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mro.name&#x2F;form2xhtml</a> that turns server side form dumps back into html for ease of processing.<p>Put that into your tool pipeline (offline processing is fine) and be good. No 3rd parties involved.
rajuover 3 years ago
Neat! Quick question—your pricing says &quot;3 forms • 100 submissions&quot; — Is that 100 submissions a month, or once you cross a 100 you have to sign up for the subscription?<p>I have a use for this, so I think I will sign up regardless.
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midrusover 3 years ago
It looks great, and very professional. I&#x27;m impressed.<p>Did you build it yourself? Because it honestly looks like a full blown company had built it by how good it looks from the outside. If so, you&#x27;re a f**g machine!! Congrats.
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sheepyover 3 years ago
Great project! The artwork makes it look very friendly. Did you have any issues with Google API quotas?
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usaphpover 3 years ago
Videos on your homepage don’t work on iPhone, show black screen
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programmarchyover 3 years ago
It&#x27;d be cool if this could work with Airtable, too.
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FailMoreover 3 years ago
Love how you load the page with the logo first
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sillycubeover 3 years ago
Why not just use Google form or other form builder?<p>What is the benefit to use 2 tools instead of 1 to do the same thing?