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That is what Google Forms does, but it looks like you've added the benefit of more custom styling which Google Forms is not very flexible about.

I run my blog's subscription system off of Google Forms -> Google Sheets. It's free and very simple but I definitely don't like how ugly Google Forms is.

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You got it 100%. Google Forms is great until you have to integrate it with a website. This is meant to work just like Google Forms but with the ability to be embedded right into any layout.

Nice, I liked the blog post you've got too [0]. I forgot my other gripe with Google Forms is that there's probably lost conversions to subscribers because it leaves my own site.

I keep meaning to follow one of these guides to embedding a form and posting to Google Sheets but the Google Sheets API is confusing and everyone's guide for doing this has a different method.

I just need to spend the time on it...

[0] https://sheetmonkey.io/articles/how-to-submit-a-html-form-to...

Thanks! Glad you found that post helpful. Yeah, the Google APIs are very powerful but not user-friendly at all for developers looking for a quick way to save data into a sheet.

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