Online Survey and Form Builder Typeform Raises €1.2M

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21 points·diggan··7 comments

Hi, a few question i hope HN people can answer. I don't want to offend anybody and think that typeform forms are really beautifuls but if i think of all the "lean startups principles" i find hard to give a positive answer to the question "does this product really meet an unsatisfied need?" Did you tried idea validation? Have you built a prelaunch landing page and gathered hundreds of emails from people really interested in your product? Mine is really curiosity so i hope not hurt nobody!

How does Typeform compare to FormStack, Wufoo or even Google Forms?

Disclaimer, I work at Typeform.

It's like comparing a beautiful swan to ugly ducks. Just by having a look at Typeform, you'll see that Typeform is on a whole different level when it comes to UX and UI, compared to any other form creator.

We have a lot of people loving Typeform. I bet you'll have a hard time finding anyone even liking Google Forms, most people use Google Forms because they have to and don't know any alternatives.

Incumbents could easily copy your UX, if it proved to be a competitive advantage

If it were as simple as that, we'd all be running cloned iPhones.

An iPhone is a lot harder to knock off than a form.

Typeforms are substantially different in how they ask for information. Since switching to typeform for a not-for-profit social initiative [0], we've seen quite a lot of difference in form completion rates.

This is specially true in case of community building etc, where there isn't a direct reward for the user or a task to be done.

[0] http://funoonfoundation.org

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