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Ask HN: What are some good free/cheap hosted contact form services

5 points by shannah78 ↗ HN
I frequently set up static websites for my projects, and I usually want to add a contact form rather than an email address. I currently use Mailchimp for this, but it is inconvenient because they aren't set up for managing multiple website contact forms (you need to create a separate account for each site, and re login to each one to manage it).

What are some good hosted contact form services that can easily be embedded or linked from a static website? Preferably I can have a single account and manage multiple contact forms.

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giantg2
I'm working on my own using an AWS Lambda (site is on S3).
approxim8ion
If your static websites are hosted on Netlify, they have their own forms feature. You just need to add a tag to your existing form HTML to have responses show up on your console. This is free, even if you want to hook it up to a custom domain. They even have some basic spam filtering on their free option. I use it for my personal site, works fine.
smeijer87
I had this exact same issue a while back, and created https://rake.red/ to fix that. Simply point the action attribute of your form to "https://rake.red/{your-project}/{your-form}" and your data will start coming in.

You create your form, so you can use the flexibility that you're used to. Including file uploads. To view your data, you either login at https://rake.red, or use one of the integrations such as sending results to your email, to discord, slack or via webhooks.