How I replaced Next.js API Routes for Forms with Cloudflare Workers

For the longest time, whenever I needed a simple "Contact Us" or "Waitlist" form in a Next.js app, my workflow looked like this: Create a route.ts API endpoint. Install zod for validation. Install resend or nodemailer to actually get the email. Set up an API key, write the HTML email template, handle rate limiting, and write a bunch of boilerplate JSX. It took hours for what should have been a 5-minute task. Worse, when I started getting spam, I had to figure out how to integrate Google reCAPTCHA, which completely ruined the UX of my site. The Cloudflare Workers Pivot I realized that form handling doesn't belong in my edge computing framework—it belongs on the absolute edge network itself. I built FormGuard , an AI-native form backend that runs entirely on Cloudflare Workers. Here is how you use it: <form action= "https://api.formguard.strivio.world/submit/YOUR_ID" method= "POST" > <input name= "email" type= "email" required /> <button type= "submit" > Join </button> </form> That's it.