GitForms
Zero-cost contact forms using GitHub Issues as database
Details
- External ID
- 46304199
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- GitForms
- Website domain
- vercel.app
- Launched
- Dec. 17, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 40
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7843511450381679
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
got tired of paying $29–99/month for simple contact forms on landing pages and side projects (Typeform, Tally, etc.).So I built GitForms: an open-source contact form that stores submissions as GitHub Issues.How it works:Form runs on your Next.js 14 site (Tailwind + TypeScript) On submit → creates a new Issue in your repo via GitHub API You get instant email notifications from GitHub (free)Zero ongoing costs:No database, no backend servers Deploy on Vercel/Netlify free tier in minutes Configurable via JSON (themes, text, multi-language)Perfect for MVPs, landing pages, portfolios, or any low-volume use case.Repo: https://github.com/Luigigreco/gitforms License: CC-BY-NC-SA-4.0 (non-commercial only – fine for personal projects, not client work).Curious what HN thinks: would you use this? Any obvious improvements or edge cases I missed?Thanks!
Enrichment
- Theme
- git and repository workflow tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- contact forms backed by github issues
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The system simply accepts form submissions on a Next.js frontend and creates corresponding GitHub Issues via the GitHub REST API, maximizing developer utility with standard web APIs.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Google Forms with Google Sheets integration, Giscus (GitHub issues for comments), Utterances (GitHub issues hosting), Custom GitLab-based form solutions
Concerns raised: GitHub token exposure in frontend, GitHub may discontinue due to self-hosted runner fees, High spam without protection, Low barrier to entry makes business viability questionable, Trademark concerns with 'Git' prefix naming
Feature requests: Email backend flexibility (Resend, Mailgun instead of GitHub-only), Alternative spam protection providers (Cloudflare, Google), Support for private GitLab instead of public GitHub, Better naming option (e.g., 'FormGit')
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 88 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #17 of 89 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 47 days after the earliest competitor.
- Git repositories hosted directly on Freenet · hn · 2026-05-01 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Contribute to GitHub Anonymously · hn · 2026-01-16 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- PHPAML Cloud · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- GitClassic.com, GitHub circa 2015 without JS & AI · hn · 2026-01-19 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- GitShow Repo Showroom · hn · 2026-02-28 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- A free tool for non-technical folks to easily publish a website · hn · 2026-04-22 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- I built a GitHub application that generates documentation automatically · hn · 2025-12-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- GitClassic.com, a fast, lightweight GitHub thin client (pages <14KB) · hn · 2026-03-12 · 41 upvotes · similarity 0.40
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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