Show HN: Fireform – Hook your website form into a hosted private back end

Just in case it might be helpful for someone else (I know it&#x27;s been helpful for us at the college the past few years).<p>Here&#x27;s a great Wufoo-like self-hosted Forms Application (version 4.0 sounds like it&#x27;s right around the corner too): <a href="http://www.appnitro.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.appnitro.com&#x2F;</a><p>The software is called MachForms (I don&#x27;t remember how I found it, but I&#x27;m definitely glad I did). I was able to add in LDAP authentication on my own with some customization of the core code (I wish it would be built-in as a feature, but aside from that it works really nicely out of the box).

Anyone have the link to the other online form api&#x2F;processor that was posted the other day?<p>it was like POST someSite.com&#x2F;your@email.com<p>Just wanted to compare a few of them

All these static form hosting tools make me think maybe one of our side projects had some possible legs: <a href="http://formend.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;formend.com&#x2F;</a><p>It&#x27;s a backend for form data. The idea being you never set up a schema or layout ahead of time, you just send named fields and file uploads and it just works.<p>The implementation is a bit buggy though, it was more of a proof of concept.

What I want&#x2F;need is a more robust system to handle spam&#x2F;server side validation. i.e. filtering out known bad email addresses or domains, blocking IPs, blocking known spam phrases from text fields, validating selected dates between ranges etc. Any plans for things like that? Also what about email alerts for submissions etc?

Ahh.. this takes me back to when you had your page on something like Angelfire or Geocities and someone else would provide free guestbook or &quot;contact us&quot; type forms. You just had to plunk some code into your html and go.<p>This is the Web 2.0 version of that.

Awesome!!<p>Can I assign a custom tags on a form? I&#x27;d love to differentiate when the form was submitted on a dev environment, a landing page 1 or landing page 2..

It&#x27;s really awesome we were able to build this completely on Firebase&#x27;s system. The zapier integration for email was clutch too. Ne sweat on the scaling.

Their demo is really a pain to use in my 1024x700 browser windows. And even when I switch to fullscreen actually (but I&#x27;d rather not).

looks sharp, but doesn&#x27;t wufoo have a pretty solid foothold in this market?

Regrets for the sizing issue. Hopefully it still get&#x27;s the job done.

What are your thoughts on pricing for this? How about a form builder?

do you need to design a schema for the backend or does it automatically create it based on the form data that is posted through?