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by secfirstmd 1920 days ago
This is very cool. Kudos for tackling this. At Security First (https://www.secfirst.org) we build free open source apps and tools for helping people learn about and manage physical and digital security. At one stage we spent a lot of time looking to how to built out smart forms like this for stuff like incidents. It gets very very complicated very quickly in terms of building out the backend brains of it. So massive kudos to you for tackling this challenge, I can only image how difficult it was. I look forward to testing it and seeing how we might be able to use it with groups like journalists and activists at risk. It's kinda hard to know at this stage from what's on your site but will there be some kind of api we can use with it?
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Very cool! Security awareness and training that doesn't suck (I'm talking to you, Java "training" Applets from 2000) is probably one of the highest impact "soft" things that companies can do to actually make their company (and people) more secure.

We've built on top of an API (primarily for data I/O), but haven't exposed anything for public consumption yet (the API's only used by our app), simply because we have so much to tackle already that we're not ready to support a developer community using the API quite yet.

Like you said, building arbitrary logic into forms is hard...

Awesome, look forward to seeing how it goes!