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by CoreSet 2217 days ago
As someone who recently added a "fremium" / "free for solo developers" tiers to their form service this is fascinating.

We give you unlimited forms but gate on submissions, offering more features / submissions in higher tiers etc.

Reading the blog it doesn't look like there is anything malicious about selling user data or some "you are the product"-type bait and switch, but with one dev and no financial incentive I don't see how he keeps this going (No knock to him, asking unlimited free work is a lot).

Forms seem like sort of a small thing, but you really want them to _work_. Having a whiff on even a contact form can miss a lead and looks bad. And if the service breaks, all of a sudden you have to change a bunch of source code pointing to a defunct service, and hope they have an export function.

(shameless plug for the curious, since some people are suggesting services: https://formcake.com

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Shouldn't your tag line be "The Form Backend Built For Developers", with "built" not "build". And a little more unsolicited feedback: the rendering/display of code example under /How It Works/ looks kind of sloppy -- I think it might actually look better when JS is disabled. Similarly, not a big big fan of the fullwidth Codepen embed.
Thank you for the feedback!