UI looks way more polished than the competition — without having fully set it up, the app sounds very promising as an alternative to SaaS tools. Any plans to monetise?
Probably the best OAuth tutorial on the internet. Also it's amazing marketing, it just gets scarier every paragraph. By the end you're 100% put off implementing OAuth yourself haha
True, probably not the best choice of wording haha! Of course, Palform can't fix everything — I'm just trying to highlight that forms are an area where I think software security specifically needs more attention.
I'm working on an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Forms (because Google is creepy).
It has all the same features plus many more: advanced conditional branching, webhooks, thorough design customisation, better question types (e.g. address autocomplete), etc.
I've bootstrapped it into a (very) small startup. The idea is to maintain an ethics- and privacy-driven form builder that people don't have to trust, since nobody can see your responses. It also makes GDPR way easier for you!
Hi! Analytics has been a struggle to implement due to the E2EE meaning we have to download _all_ responses client-side. However, we're very happy with where the implementation is right now.
To start with, you get pretty graphs to summarise each question, with the exact graphic depending on the question type (e.g. a heatmap for the "address" input). This is a quick, simple summary and anyone can understand these. They're also easy to download and share.
Then there's correlation analysis, showing which pairs of questions have the most strongly related answers. We summarise this using plain English to ensure people without stats degrees can understand it! You can also view the regression graph for each question pair, which can help determine other patterns.
Despite the complexity, we've done some initial benchmarking (which we're hoping to formalise and publish soon) that shows these analyses perform very well at scale, hardly exhibiting lag even with tens of thousands of responses. Overall, it's a great groundwork that'll be nice to build upon in the future as we add more sophisticated analysis without compromising on the simplicity aspect.
