Built FormRoute: a form backend that routes submissions anywhere. Free tier, no backend needed.
Hey folks! 👋
I'm finishing FormRoute, a form backend for static sites, React, Next.js, Astro, or anything that can send a POST request.
The problem I kept hitting: you build a landing page or static site, you need a contact form, and suddenly you're setting up a backend just to receive an email. Or you're paying $30/month for a tool that still makes you use Zapier for everything.
FormRoute fixes that. One endpoint, paste it into any form, done. Validates fields server-side, blocks spam with Cloudflare Turnstile, stores submissions for up to 30 days (or not at all, your call), and delivers to your destinations.
The routing part is coming next, send each submission to multiple destinations simultaneously based on rules you define. No Zapier, no glue code.
Free tier: 1,000 submissions/month, unlimited forms, dashboard included.
Would love honest feedback, especially from anyone who's hit this problem before.
👉 formroute.dev
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good positioning. the unsexy moat for form backends is spam handling. once a public form is up, you get hammered by botnet submissions in the first 72 hours. the form backends that fail are the ones that did not ship rate limits, honeypots, and adaptive captcha by default. how are you handling that on the free tier? if you can offer a clean experience without forcing users to add hcaptcha themselves, you have a real differentiator vs the $30/month tools. good luck with the launch.
@thenameisarian Thanks! And you're right, spam handling is where most form backends quietly fail. We're shipping three layers on the free tier by default:
Honeypot fields (invisible to real users, catches the dumb-bot wave before anything else runs).
Cloudflare Turnstile: invisible to real users in most cases, no "click the traffic lights" friction.
AI spam classifier that scores submission content semantically, so even submissions that pass bot detection get filtered if they're junk.
The key decision was making all three free tier by default, no manual setup, no opt-in. The form just works clean from day one.
Appreciate the signal on rate limits, that's shipping before launch too.