How to add a contact form to a static site without a backend
Static hosts cannot run server code, so a plain HTML form has nowhere to post. Here are the four ways around that, and how to pick one that still works in a year.
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Notes on forms that have to work.
Guides for people who build sites for a living and would rather not run a form backend to go with them.
Formspree alternatives: how to actually choose one
Most Formspree alternative lists rank services by free tier size. That is the wrong first question. Here is what actually separates form backends.
Your contact form stopped working and nobody told you
Contact forms rarely fail loudly. They keep returning success while the emails stop arriving. Here is how that happens, and how to find out first.
Add a working contact form to GitHub Pages
GitHub Pages serves static files and cannot run server code, so a form has nowhere to post. A ten-line change gives you a real endpoint, spam filtering and an inbox.
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Put a real endpoint behind your next contact form.
Free for 500 submissions a month. No credit card, no server code, no cron job.
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Takes about a minute.