Show HN: SnoopForms – Open-Source Typeform Alternative

I love this pricing model of .02 per submission for the pro plan. Often, as an agency, our customer or project needs are “lumpy” in terms of usage and the monthly base fees are a serious margin killer. The usage based fee like a cloud provider would charge is awesome for our use case.

This is very cool, there&#x27;s definitely a need for something that sits between the completely no-code tools and a completely DIY approach.<p>Your submission-based pricing is also very approachable to small-volume forms -- the industry standard is about a $25-35 minimum monthly, and even though there&#x27;s often a free tier it usually includes a small subset of features.<p>One thing that&#x27;s a blocker for me at the moment is that I can&#x27;t seem to add text besides the field name to a field in the no-code tool. It&#x27;s useful for providing instructions on the field, but I don&#x27;t see a way to do it.<p>Overall this feels pretty polished, I&#x27;m impressed.

As a former Typeform user, I like this. I actually like that it doesn&#x27;t look too much like Typeform. I did notice in a comment that you want to have an option to &quot;Typformerize&quot; a form, which is neat because it gives the user the option for it even if I wouldn&#x27;t use it myself. I also really like your landing page design, very easy to parse and read.

From the name &quot;snoop&quot; forms, I genuinely thought this was some kind of tracking&#x2F;telemetry forms tool. It&#x27;s not.

You should really fix the spelling of &quot;HIPAA&quot; on the front page if you want to be taken seriously as advertising a HIPAA-compliant piece of software.

Nice project. I&#x27;m not sure about the name though. &quot;snoop&quot; has some nefarious connotations...&quot;snooping around&quot;:<p>&gt; investigate or look around furtively in an attempt to find out something, <i>especially information about someone&#x27;s private affairs.</i>

Be careful using the Typeform name. Someone I know did a tutorial on how to build a typeform clone and got a cease and desist. They aren’t friendly.

I might be an outlier but not a big fan of the pricing model.<p>$0.02 per submission can get very expensive very fast. For 10,000 submissions, it will cost the user $200 where as Typeform costs $83 for the same[1]. Is it really that expensive to store 10,000 rows of data?<p>I understand the other features provided with the storage such as analytics and integrations but it still doesn&#x27;t justify the cost imo.<p>While you can argue that you offer self-hosting as well and as someone who is a big fan of self-hosting(I self-host over 8+ apps[2]), It&#x27;s another thing I can self-host if I need to someday and I thank you for making it self-hostable&#x2F;open-source. But from my experience, only very technical users self-host apps.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.typeform.com&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.typeform.com&#x2F;pricing&#x2F;</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vikashbajaj.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;the-slippery-slope-of-self-hosting&#x2F;comments" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vikashbajaj.substack.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;the-slippery-slope-of-sel...</a>

Great looking site! It took less than a minute to create a first form. Very intuitive. Just the &#x27;Submit&#x27; button on the form create page was a bit confusing as it didn&#x27;t do anything. Good job!

Is there a form SaaS that allows the admin to give feedback on the form submission and then have the user resubmit their form?<p>I run a coaching business and I’d like my students to be able to submit their work for feedback and review. Then if they need to make changes, I’d like to make it as easy as possible for them to resubmit the form with tweaks to their submission.

Looks great! Is there a company (e.g., LLC) behind this? I don&#x27;t see any information about it in the Imprint section.

Wow this is awesome! We have been building similar pipelines on top of CognitoForms but this is a much easier fit.

Is there an API to pull answers from?

hoi!<p>we just launched the first public beta of Typeform open-source tool snoopForms.<p>Apart from OS, we want to differentiate by:<p>- offering code &amp; no-code interfaces to create forms (beta) - offering in-depth form analytics &amp; improvement tools like A&#x2F;B testing (tba) - granular and conditional data piping i.e. &quot;if newsletter checkbox is set, send name &amp; email field to SendGrid&quot;. Essentially, well integrated and GDPR compliant Zapier<p>What do you think?

Since you are german: Your website is in violation of the GDPR and german law in general. Fix those problems immediately or I will report you.

Is that politically loaded marketing working?