3 Months, 96 Signups, and 2 Paying Customers: What I Learned Building Formgrid in Public

Three months after launching Formgrid , I got my first paying customer. That sentence looks simple. It wasn't. What Formgrid Does Formgrid is an open-source form backend and form builder in one place. If you're a developer building a static site, portfolio, or landing page, you already know the pain. Your HTML form looks great, but you have no way to actually receive the submissions without spinning up a server. Formgrid solves that with one endpoint URL: <form action= "https://formgrid.dev/api/f/your-form-id" method= "POST" > <input type= "text" name= "name" required /> <input type= "email" name= "email" required /> <textarea name= "message" ></textarea> <button type= "submit" > Send </button> </form> Point your form at it. Receive submissions in your inbox. Spam protection, email notifications, file uploads, and CSV export are all included. Self-hostable with Docker. Fully open source under the MIT license. But that's only half the story now. More on that below. The First Three Month