Jumprock.co
Infrastructure
form handling for static sites
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
7 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 30 comments about the project. Thread score +0.03.
Idea: 3 for, 5 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful alternative to Formspree, with email aliasing
From 3 comments
Seems similar to Formspree[0], which one can self-host[1], but lacks the aliasing feature of your solution. Looks very cool! [0]: https://formspree.io [1]:…
wanda on HNNice! The alias (or the lack thereof) is one thing that keeps me from using Formspree, as I don't want the email addresses to be exposed. One suggestion I have is to support…
sntran on HNVery cool. Good job. I use a relatively simple AWS API Gateway -> AWS Lambda -> AWS SES for this. But as trivial as it was to set up it is still way more work than this looks…
throwaway2016a on HN
Turn-key setup is easier than building on AWS
From 2 comments
Very cool. Good job. I use a relatively simple AWS API Gateway -> AWS Lambda -> AWS SES for this. But as trivial as it was to set up it is still way more work than this looks…
throwaway2016a on HNI mentor and teach a lot of designers and beginning front-end developers. Services like this and FormSpree are a godsend for allowing them to create functioning contact forms on…
jordanlev on HN
Objections
Emails are lost if the site goes down, and delivery is not guaranteed
From 2 comments
Excellent questions. It is free unless you want to use custom fields. The emails go into a queue which is listened for and processed when items are added. I have 3 that listeners…
therov on HNFYI, there's no guarantee of delivery, ever, where e-mails are involved. Guaranteed delivery is not one of its features. Best-effort store-and-forward, yes; for guaranteed…
Piskvorrr on HN
Honeypot spam protection may be easy for bots to defeat
From 3 comments
This will not take a lot of time for spambots to figure out. Would it? Are there any web-application-firewall level spambot filtering that would ensure that the bot traffic can…
foo101 on HNIn my previous job an honeypot field with a random name in the form of email__($randomString of 3 to 6 chars) was enough to block 100% of the spam. Simplicity is the ultimate…
napolux on HNI am sure that worked for you and I do not want to undermine the importance of simplicity. However my question was drawn from my previous experience where it was one hell of a…
foo101 on HN
Similar services already exist
From 2 comments
Why do these apps keep getting upvoted and created? Formspree has been around a long time, I don't understand it :P
zackify on HNWhat goes around, comes around I guess. Back in the maelstrom that was Web 1.0, where every person and their dog were uploading static html pages to their 'webspace' via FTP,…
Jaruzel on HN
Requests
Support aliases in CC and BCC fields
From 1 comment
Nice! The alias (or the lack thereof) is one thing that keeps me from using Formspree, as I don't want the email addresses to be exposed. One suggestion I have is to support…
sntran on HN
Cookie-based session variable across multi-page forms
From 1 comment
I was thinking there might be a piece of javascript to read and write a cookie to a hidden field so you could keep a session variable for multiple page forms.
sharemywin on HN
Use input type hidden for the honeypot instead of display none
From 1 comment
Suggestion: use input type=hidden instead of display:none on the honeypot
captn3m0 on HN
Use tel and email input types for phone and email fields
From 1 comment
Cool. You should consider using input type="tel" for capturing phone numbers - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/tel On a mobile device, it will…
edent on HN
Questions
Is there a daily or monthly limit
From 1 comment
Is there a daily/monthly limit?
sidyapa on HN
Is the service free and what is the catch
From 1 comment
It looks real good. but I don't get the catch: is it free service ? is there a guarantee on the time between the user posting the form and me receiving the email ? what if your…
lozzo on HN
Can messages be delivered encrypted
From 1 comment
Is it possible to deliver the messages to the email server in an encrypted way? I would not want my business communication being sent via cleartext/email.
appleflaxen on HN
Alternatives named
Formspree
From 2 comments
Seems similar to Formspree[0], which one can self-host[1], but lacks the aliasing feature of your solution. Looks very cool! [0]: https://formspree.io [1]:…
wanda on HNI use Formspree [0] for GitHub Pages hosted stuff, and it is dead simple. I've never been spammed, as it requires a human click ("I'm not a robot") for the email to send. [0]…
antibland on HN
Staticman
From 1 comment
Staticman[0] is great. Same principle where you only have to POST to an API but with user content stored in Github. There's a free hosted version and it's open source. [0]…
JeanSebTr on HN
Netlify form handling
From 1 comment
Things like this and Formspree are great for setting up a one-off site. If you get to choose the hosting though, Netlify offers form submission handling as part of their free…
rebolyte on HN
Formkeep
From 1 comment
For completeness, there’s also Formkeep (https://formkeep.com/) which is similar.
simonhamp on HN