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It's a fun idea, but why is it $20/month? I feel like I could throw this together for free. Am I missing something?

I love the idea as well but feel as though there should be some sort of free option

Thanks for the feedback.

Obviously for developers it's something you could throw together, but I'm planning on adding more features later if there's real interest in this for them.

The target audience right now is more towards non-developers who just want to throw something together with as little investment as possible to validate/iterate their idea.

I would've thought most non-developers would find a developer and ask them to partner or quote? Or try Wufoo or Weebly or something like that.

I clicked "Sign Up", then pressed "Cancel" on the Javascript input prompt. You cannot close the this prompt without either forcing your browser to stop creating prompts, or by providing a valid address.

Disabling my "cancel" button is not friendly behaviour at all.

Fixed it - thanks for your feedback :)

Doesn't look fixed; I just tried it a minute ago. I almost had to kill my browser. (Frankly, I'm disappointed in my browser that it didn't detect abusive behavior from the website.)

Try Chrome - they give you an option to check a box and not allow any more popups.

So does FF (normally at least)

Yeah, it's still happening for me (Safari)

thanks for the tip about safari. I just assumed safari would follow the convention, but nope. Should be fixed now :)

So how is this better than a page with an iframe form? (http://www.wufoo.com/)

No time to set up a form, just include your questions in the js call.

I just clicked on sign up and now I can't and I would close my browser.

Fixed it- thanks ;)

MVPs all the way down

Yeah, are the emails from this service sent manually?

Nope, that part is automatic.

Ha. This is identical to most of my tech backend!

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