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Typebot: A conversational form builder that you can self-host

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In the demo, first question was "What's your name?". I wrote, "I'm James", and it responded, "Nice to meet you, I'm James".

A dad joke bot!

But I think this simple example suggests conversational forms can be unintuitive for consumers, and it can be more costly for both the asking side and the answering side to communicate the same information.

They probably shouldn't embed a live, unmoderated version of their AirTable db on their front page. Some of the results displayed there are... interesting..

"Cum guzzling is fun"

"Reddit makes me moist"

"I'm pooping"

"Cunt"

https://airtable.com/shr8nkV6DVN88LVIv/tblehvqqwBsnlMiCB?bac...

Really cool project! I like this new trend of building SaaS products as open source, and still delivering a hosted free tier. https://cal.com/ is another example of this. And super proud that both are using Prisma!

I was just looking for a solution in this space, but I want a strong and stable API. This API mentions that it is a "work in progress"[0] unfortunately. Does anyone have a comparable solution that focuses on an API?

0. https://docs.typebot.io/api

Raytio[1] forms are defined as json schema[1] and can be chained together[2] to create a very flexible workflow[3]. Although our focus is on users creating a reusable profile[4] it may fit your needs[5]. We do have an option to self-host in AWS for enterprise customers. Our documentation needs work so contact me directly if you want to discuss further - email in profile.

1. https://www.rayt.io 2. https://api-docs.rayt.io/#operation/addSchema 3. https://docs.rayt.io/docs/identityproof/data-receiver/create... 4. https://docs.rayt.io/docs/tutorials/how-it-works-business 5. https://docs.rayt.io/docs/features/form-features

That "stay up to date" section with the animated image. Are we really treating Github like Youtube now?

this looks great. I like that it exports json, would be cool (from my narrow perspective) if json spec + gui were side-by-side and you could edit either.

I think more sites are going this way (bitrise mobile builds is an example; theirs is still clunky but getting there). Have been tinkering with 'json first admin', a toolset for hosting config schemas and providing semi-automatic gui previews (v1) and edit controls (v2).

I wonder how much of nocode will converge to 'declarative config with minimal custom logic', rather than 'gui first / gui only'.

But this is very slick, good work.

Not bad but trying it out on mobile the UX isn’t as good as I expected it to be

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