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Dev tools · October 4, 2015

Getform – Simple effortless form processing

Headless form backend API that handles submissions, validation, file uploads, notifications, and webhooks. You build the frontend, Forminit handles the rest.

Getform – Simple effortless form processing launched on October 4, 2015 with 11 votes, #2,011 of 4,175 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

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In plain words

Forminit (formerly Getform.io) is a headless form backend API that processes form submissions, validates data, handles file uploads, sends notifications, and triggers webhooks. It works with any frontend framework and technology stack, including Next.js, Node.js, Python, PHP, and serverless functions. Users build their own frontend while Forminit manages the backend infrastructure for form handling and spam blocking.

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From the sources

Forminit (formerly Getform.io) is a form backend API that collects submissions, validates data, blocks spam, stores files, and sends notifications. Works with any stack. Works with any stack. Our docs are LLM-ready. Paste them into your AI coding assistant and get working integration code in seconds. Server-side applications Next.js , Nuxt.js , Node.js , Cloudflare Workers , PHP , Python , Flask , Django , FastAPI , Ruby , serverless functions Done. Your contact form and its file uploads are wired to Forminit (form c7k2p9 ). Submissions, including attached files, now show up in your Forminit dashboard. Collect names, emails and international phone numbers with built-in validation and data…from getform.org

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