02Developer tool2025
Formforge
A tiny backend for forms that matter.
Role
Product & engineering
Year
2025
Stack
Next.js, Express, MongoDB, Tailwind CSS
Formforge turns an HTML form into a reliable endpoint in under a minute. Submissions are validated, filtered, stored and forwarded — while the frontend stays a frontend.
Static sites need form handling without a backend, but most form services feel like a black box. The goal was transparent behaviour: predictable validation, visible delivery logs and zero lock-in.
A single Express endpoint handles ingest; a queue isolates delivery from the request. Spam is filtered with a layered approach rather than one brittle captcha, and every submission gets a human-readable event log.
A tiny backend for forms that matter.
- 01One-line HTML integration
- 02Layered spam filtering with a human-readable score
- 03Email and webhook delivery with retries
- 04Exportable submission history
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