> An open-source alternative to Typeform and Google Forms
Those two are the two extreme ends of the target audience archetypes. So, decide which is yours.
> I was using Typeform, but as time went by and more people submitted forms, it got more and more expensive.
When people say they build cheaper alternatives, I often assume that the original is becoming better and more successful. Competing on price rarely wins.
I've found https://formbricks.com to be kinda the closest competition to Typeform, and also Open Source.
I used to work at Typeform and I think it's a testament to their product that people have been inspired to make open source versions of it multiple times over the past decade or so.
A lot of comments here are saying that competing on price is a losing proposition, but I think they’re forgetting that this is a solo project and not a 500 person company that’s trying to be as profitable as possible to be attractive for acquisition like Typeform. The bar for success for a solo project is far lower.
Typeform has to blow money on a lot of overhead that this author doesn’t have.
And let’s not just ignore a whole bunch of products that ousted market leaders specifically because they competed on price/value. Examples include: Google Docs, Mailchimp, a gigantic list of Adobe competitors, Unity, Backblaze, Robinhood, and the list goes on.
Didn't Google Docs win because it was online and (more) mobile-friendly, not because it was free? Almost everyone had Office on their PCs at the time, but not on their tablets.
Those two are the two extreme ends of the target audience archetypes. So, decide which is yours.
> I was using Typeform, but as time went by and more people submitted forms, it got more and more expensive.
When people say they build cheaper alternatives, I often assume that the original is becoming better and more successful. Competing on price rarely wins.
I've found https://formbricks.com to be kinda the closest competition to Typeform, and also Open Source.