I love this pricing model of .02 per submission for the pro plan. Often, as an agency, our customer or project needs are “lumpy” in terms of usage and the monthly base fees are a serious margin killer. The usage based fee like a cloud provider would charge is awesome for our use case.
This is very important. I'm rather averse to signing up for paid service which is only limited by the option I provide for payments. It took me years to be willing to put a service on autopay which is merely variable, such as a power bill.
- free plan no CC needed (e.g. 100 submissions) - extended free plan with CC (e.g. 500 submissions) - paid plan with cost control (e.g. don't spend more than 25$)
Cost control is important, but I appreciate that structure. I skipped all services like this because it costed me less to have a dynamic website hosted on digital ocean than a static website with a form service.
With this service that is pay-per-use, I can finally "afford it". Thank you!
This is very cool, there's definitely a need for something that sits between the completely no-code tools and a completely DIY approach.
Your submission-based pricing is also very approachable to small-volume forms -- the industry standard is about a $25-35 minimum monthly, and even though there's often a free tier it usually includes a small subset of features.
One thing that's a blocker for me at the moment is that I can't seem to add text besides the field name to a field in the no-code tool. It's useful for providing instructions on the field, but I don't see a way to do it.
Overall this feels pretty polished, I'm impressed.
thanks for the feedback, Paul :-) currently you can add text blocks above or below the questions and add there any instructions you like. but you are right, there are no dedicated help texts, etc. at the moment. but I think we will have a good solution for that very soon
As a former Typeform user, I like this. I actually like that it doesn't look too much like Typeform. I did notice in a comment that you want to have an option to "Typformerize" a form, which is neat because it gives the user the option for it even if I wouldn't use it myself. I also really like your landing page design, very easy to parse and read.
thanks! :) Correct, we see the appeal from the Typeform UX but actually see snoop as more than a tool to create beautiful forms. Data collection is just the entry point.
Data privacy is a key driver for me to not use something like Typeform and to choose something with supposedly better privacy features.
It’s a shame to nitpick on the name, but I do feel that having “snoop” in the brand name is not a good move for the target audience segment that I fall into!
I might be an outlier but not a big fan of the pricing model.
$0.02 per submission can get very expensive very fast. For 10,000 submissions, it will cost the user $200 where as Typeform costs $83 for the same[1]. Is it really that expensive to store 10,000 rows of data?
I understand the other features provided with the storage such as analytics and integrations but it still doesn't justify the cost imo.
While you can argue that you offer self-hosting as well and as someone who is a big fan of self-hosting(I self-host over 8+ apps[2]), It's another thing I can self-host if I need to someday and I thank you for making it self-hostable/open-source. But from my experience, only very technical users self-host apps.
If it's really not that expensive, couldn't you just self-host it? I think the developer is just trying to make a reasonable amount for providing a service for those who don't want to self-host.
As someone who self-hosts a lot of apps myself[1], I can assure you it's not easy to self-host/maintain the apps. Even for very technical people, it still takes a lot of effort to self-host apps(setup server, run in docker, configure a web proxy like caddy/nginx, provision ssl certificates, add firewall security etc) along with doing regular db backups just for one person.
Typeform costs $83 for 10,000 responses[1](it's reliable, been around for almost a decade, used by leading companies around the world and it provides way more features than this) where as snoopforms will cost $200 for the same number of responses. That is more than 200% markup.
You are absolutely right and we are aware of this as we calculated it through.
Pricing an OS project isn't easy and we will introduce scaled prices per submission e.g. 500-2.000 -> 0,02$, 2.000-10.000 -> 0,01$ and > 10.000 -> 0,005$ or so.
We just didnt want to make it too complicated early on.
That makes sense. All the best. I will definitely recommend Snoopforms to people I know. I generally self-host whenever I can and I will self-host this when I need this in future. I hope I can still pay one-time fee down the line when I need it/self-host to support the project. Thanks
Great looking site! It took less than a minute to create a first form. Very intuitive. Just the 'Submit' button on the form create page was a bit confusing as it didn't do anything. Good job!
Is there a form SaaS that allows the admin to give feedback on the form submission and then have the user resubmit their form?
I run a coaching business and I’d like my students to be able to submit their work for feedback and review. Then if they need to make changes, I’d like to make it as easy as possible for them to resubmit the form with tweaks to their submission.
Oh really? It would be super valuable to talk to you about what you built and why. Please shoot me a message at hola@snoopforms.com or in the Discord - I'll try to reach you via Codeday.org as well :)
we just launched the first public beta of Typeform open-source tool snoopForms.
Apart from OS, we want to differentiate by:
- offering code & no-code interfaces to create forms (beta) - offering in-depth form analytics & improvement tools like A/B testing (tba) - granular and conditional data piping i.e. "if newsletter checkbox is set, send name & email field to SendGrid". Essentially, well integrated and GDPR compliant Zapier
You are right, sorry about that. In the last iteration of our footer redesign these informations were accidentally removed. We have added the pages again and republished the website. Since the discord plugin also concerned you, we now removed it from our website.
I threatened the report because I wanted to annoy the OP who seems to be a leftist. I can only threaten OP this way because leftists created this stupid GDPR legislation, which I have to deal with almost every day.
A report to the ULD will also most likely only result in a slap on the wrist.
I actually did them a favor by pointing out their problems, because some german law firms use crawlers to detect GDPR and other violations. They then send cease-and-desist orders and collect expensive legal fees for that.
An aggression uncalled for. Be better than that. Provide feedback, show empathy, and assume people here are acting in good faith - because more often than not - they do so.
Why do you respond in such a hostile manner to a legitimate question? Why even put this stuff on the page? It makes you look like a really bitter, childish and hateful person.
I took his response to be that of uncertainty, and asking if it was related to the (definitely inappropriate) Elon reference. Your response is coming across just as hostile, as is the top-level comment you posted. There are other ways you could have approached both of these comments.
