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What feature(s) should I add to fabform.io for static website forms


I have created https://fabform.io to save static website html form submissions to google sheets. I would like to expand it to submit forms to other platforms. I am creating fabform.io publicly and i'm looking to brainstorm so I can see what I am not seeing. Thanks for any input good or bad.


  👤 Jugurtha Accepted Answer ✓
Congrats for launching this. Some improvements:

Centering the content and header would make it better. Reducing the height of the header and making it take all the page's width helps.

The page's title is:

>"static forms google sheets as a database"

I'd change that to something else. A sentence with a subject-verb-object would be better. Even "fabform.io" or "fabform.io | Google Sheets as a Database" would be better in my opinion.

>Use google sheets as a database to save static website form >form submissions to google sheets

I'd write "Google" with a capital "G" and "Sheets" with a capital "S".

>Easy no code serverless solution

I'd drop the mumbo-jumbo "no code serverless solution".

There are ten (10) instances of the word google|Google in that page, that is too many.

>Save static website form data direct to Google sheets

It should be "directly", not direct. An adverb.

>Built in Google sheets integration

"Built-in", and I assume there's a built-in Google Sheets given that the whole product is about that.

>Add a row to Google Sheets when someone submits a static website form.

Why "static"? Does that not work in a dynamic website?

>Update a row in Google Sheets when someone submits a static website form.

What's the "primary key", given the reference to databases. When will it update a row, and when will it add a row?

>* restful google sheets api*

What does that mean?

>Use Google Sheets as a database for your static website.

This has already been mentioned.

>example html static website form.

Maybe "Example HTML:" (capitalized "E", and "HTML" ending with a colon ":" for what follows).

>* *

How to generate a public key for the Google Sheets API? Adding a link to a tutorial helps.

Adding GIFs and screenshots would clarify how this works.

All the best,