2023 way to do contact form

Question

I'm about to launch my revamped business web site; the old one got blown away along with a cancelled dedicated server in a colo, backups forgotten.I'm a little late to the public cloud party, you might say, but better late than never. I'm hosting the new site in an S3 bucket fronted by CloudFront.My natural instinct would be to wire a contact form to a mailer running on the web server hosting the site, which, as we know, is so Jurassic an impulse as to be wholly ruled out in this brave new serverless world. Putting such functionality in Lambda gives me the sense of taking a labourious detour to reinvent some kind of wheel, since people with far less technical acumen are throwing up contact forms every day.I have experience with some third-party overlay products for contact and engagement, e.g. www.livechat.com. Maybe I'll come back to that idea, but today I want a contact form that generates an e-mail, or perhaps calls a webhook/POST-back.I'm embarrassed to say, I don't really know how to get a high-quality contact form going in a truly turn-key, serverless, 2023 way. Recommendations appreciated!

surprisetalk · Accepted Answer

I host DreamDaddy on Cloudflare Pages (like S3), and use a Cloudflare Worker (like a lambda) to email myself contact submissions. Cloudflare is free and "just works" -- I have not liked my hodge-podge experiences with AWS, especially for simple projects.
I've also found that people are generally pretty happy to schedule short meetings. I've personally had a very good experience with calendly! I've posted my schedule as an example below. Feel free to say hello :)
[1] https://dreamdaddy.io
[2] https://calendly.com/taylor-town/30min

thoughtpalette · Answer

I've found a resource in the past to get form values posted to a Google Sheet if that works for you. I can't remember the article, but I saved the code. You add to the "scripts" in sheets.https://gist.github.com/thoughtpalette/d2cc6b88d32cb4613b037...

dieselgate · Answer

Am curious on this topic and am in a similar situation with a droplet - but am running a rails app so it's more a solved problem (though I've not worked directly with rails mailers in the past). Which stack are you using for this? that may help folks direct you to a solution if it makes a difference

kgodey · Answer

I'm using https://formspree.io/ with our new static website. I put the form URL as the action attribute in the HTML form tag, and it just works.

mattl · Answer

This is a way I've seen it done server less, https://www.netlify.com/products/forms/

1xdevloper · Answer

After spending a lot of time researching this for one of my websites, I found Tally forms [1] to be a great fit.[1] https://tally.so

codegeek · Answer

I came across https://fieldgoal.io which seems like a simple no sense solution.

tpmx · Answer

First I thought: surely there must be an obvious effective and cheap way to do this. Then I googled a bit. Now I also want to know.