Formcake – A Form Back-End API

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17 points·webappsecperson··6 comments

There is startlingly little information on this landing page, even though the service is still in an early access stage. I'm reluctant to sign up for "updates and early access" without knowing what "Flexible and powerful integrations" includes or getting a glimpse of the "Clear documentation" or "Advanced, easy-to-use API."

Clever, but I wonder who the target demographic is.

We're lucky to be in an era that has too many options for backend integration, both self-hosted and cloud, "monolith" and microservice.

I can't help but feel that anyone who can set up something to receive webhook notifications would likely just cut out the middleman.

People who don't know what a webhook is have SurveyMonkey and Google Forms.

What am I missing?

If this lets you configure how the webhook is sent, you might not need to set anything up. Example: form is posted to Formcake, which then sends a webhook to Twilio that sends an SMS to the inserted number (for validation).

The Zapier integration, on the other hand, is even more flexible. Using a similar service, I built a fully static website for a Mother's Day campaign, where the form was processed by a Zapier action that added the info as a row to a Google Sheet. No custom backend at all.

Is this in any way different then https://formspree.io/ ?

I can't open the navigation on mobile (chrome) and if I switch the "desktop version" feature on the navigation button in the top right corner disappears.

Probably it would be better to wait to submit this until it is actually available.

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