Show HN: Mailik – Effortlessly Receive Form Responses in Your Inbox

Re:Show HN: Mailik – Effortlessly Receive Form Responses in ... by oczek on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @08:27AM (#41299431)

its not an issue as emails are always send from the same domain - mailik.dev, so you can whitelist in your inbox to make sure its not detected as spam. regarding the spam sumbmision, this is an interesting topic. as for now we're fully leaving building and handling forms for our users, what we do is just handling email delivery :)

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Re:Show HN: Mailik – Effortlessly Receive Form Responses in ... by iambateman on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @09:31AM (#41299917)

For me to consider this an option, spam filtering is a must.

I often point forms at client email addresses and can’t risk them getting a bunch of spam.

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Re:Show HN: Mailik – Effortlessly Receive Form Responses in ... by PondSwimmer on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @09:50AM (#41300055)

Yes but mailik only sends mails to your addresses not clients. However we will think how to filter spam ofc

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Re:Show HN: Mailik – Effortlessly Receive Form Responses in ... by iambateman on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @09:54AM (#41300103)

Oh then I misunderstood.

Sending to in-the-loop third parties is a must. I’ve set up 1 form that goes to me directly and hundreds which go to others.

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Re:Show HN: Mailik – Effortlessly Receive Form Responses in ... by PondSwimmer on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @10:35AM (#41300469)

Maybe just sending the confirmation without the actual message. World is transforming and sending to people who filled out the form may open the gates to spammers. What do you think?

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Re:Show HN: Mailik – Effortlessly Receive Form Responses in ... by iambateman on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @11:23AM (#41300904)

I think looking at how Gravity Forms (and similar) handles this within the WP ecosystem is a helpful starting point. A lot of expectations around what a form service does and doesn't do are set by those plugins – for better or worse.

I personally believe that sending a confirmation to the person filling out the form is a requirement, in some cases, and not having it would be a mistake.

Forms are tough! Glad ya'll are working on it.

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Re:Show HN: Mailik – Effortlessly Receive Form Responses in ... by PondSwimmer on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @11:36AM (#41301009)

Ok I will definitely take a look. Making integrations is a good next step for mailik. Thank you very much!!!

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Re:Show HN: Mailik – Effortlessly Receive Form Responses in ... by maxibenner on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @10:25AM (#41300366)

Curious to hear if you generally prefer to manage client's forms and billing through your own account or have them create their own and share credentials with you?

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Re:Show HN: Mailik – Effortlessly Receive Form Responses in ... by iambateman on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @11:20AM (#41300866)

I think in a full build out, being able to manage forms+billing through a "developer account" that allows me to manage their stuff would be nice.

I would _especially_ like that the developer account gets like 3 free forms as long as clients are paying.

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Re:Show HN: Mailik – Effortlessly Receive Form Responses in ... by PondSwimmer on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @11:39AM (#41301044)

This idea needs exploring. It is good, but a little bit complicated.

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Re:Show HN: Mailik – Effortlessly Receive Form Responses in ... by PondSwimmer on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @10:36AM (#41300477)

I think there are 2 situations: - 1 client is not technical at all - so you manage on your acc - client is ok with having their own acc, then it is much better option

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Re:Show HN: Mailik – Effortlessly Receive Form Responses in ... by maxibenner on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @10:52AM (#41300619)

That makes sense. Are you currently using something more involved, e.g. Form Spree?

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Re:Show HN: Mailik – Effortlessly Receive Form Responses in ... by PondSwimmer on Tuesday August 20, 2024 @11:35AM (#41301002)

nope

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