Why I'm building a Form spree alternative (and what $27-forever gets you)

Shahroz Cheema — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:02:23 +0000

I build a lot of small static sites — portfolios, landing pages, local
business sites — and the contact form question always comes up the same way.

Form spree's free tier is 50 submissions a month. After that, it's $15-29/month
for what is, fundamentally, just forwarding form data to your inbox. For a
small client site that gets a handful of inquiries a month, that's a strange
amount of money for a strange amount of value.

So I started building Form Clip.

The core idea: you keep your existing

exactly as
it is. Point it at a Form Clip endpoint, and submissions get forwarded
instantly to Telegram, Discord, or email. That's it. No dashboard full of
analytics you didn't ask for, no database storing your visitors' info — the
data passes through and gets forwarded, nothing more.

The pricing angle: instead of another monthly subscription, Form Clip's
main offer is a one-time $27 "lifetime" pass — pay once, never again. For
freelancers managing a handful of client sites, that's the cost of about two
months of a typical form-backend subscription, and then it's done forever.

I'm still finishing up infrastructure work (currently it's a Base44 frontend

a Cloudflare Worker backend, which has been its own learning experience —
happy to talk through that setup if anyone's curious).

Genuinely asking: for those of you handling contact forms on static
sites — what's your current setup, and is there anything about a "just
forward it, don't store it" approach that would worry you (compliance,
spam, reliability)? Trying to make sure I'm not missing an obvious
dealbreaker before going further.

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Why I'm building a Form spree alternative (and what $27-forever gets you)

Why I'm building a Form spree alternative (and what $27-forever gets you)