Show HN: ServerlessFORM – no back end for a simple form needed

Re:Show HN: ServerlessFORM – no back end for a simple form n... by flukus on Thursday August 04, 2016 @11:39PM (#12229907)

This is about as severless as "the cloud". There are still server just other peoples.

That doesn't make it useless, just misleading.

Edit - I guess I should be clear, this was a short rant about the term "serverless", not the product itself, which looks quite nice for static sites.

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Re:Show HN: ServerlessFORM – no back end for a simple form n... by w1zeman1p on Thursday August 04, 2016 @11:43PM (#12229916)

Fair point. My goal was to make something so that static sites that need a simple email or contact form don't need to setup anything serverside.

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Re:Show HN: ServerlessFORM – no back end for a simple form n... by Freak_NL on Friday August 05, 2016 @02:39AM (#12230457)

Calling it serverless when there is in fact a server feels weazily though. That taints your product.

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Re:Show HN: ServerlessFORM – no back end for a simple form n... by smt88 on Friday August 05, 2016 @12:04AM (#12229974)

> That doesn't make it useless, just misleading.

I don't necessarily agree. The most popular usage of "serverless" is as a label for things like AWS Lambda.

Again, in that situation, there is a server, but it requires zero configuration by the user. This product has the same pros/cons.

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