I was tired of writing backend code for every contact form

I have a confession. For the longest time, whenever a simple project needed a contact form, I'd just use a mailto: link and call it a day, because I couldn't be bothered to set up a whole backend just for that.

When I did it "properly," it always felt like a chore. Writing a serverless function meant boilerplate. Pulling in a full BaaS felt like bringing a cannon to a knife fight.

So, I finally built a little utility for myself to solve this: formcare.io.

It's basically just an endpoint that you can point any existing HTML form to.

How it works

1. Sign up and create a new endpoint.
2. It gives you a unique URL.
3. You stick that URL in your <form action="..."> attribute. Done.

Here's an example:

<form 
  action="https://formcare.io/api/submit/your-unique-slug" 
  method="POST" 
  enctype="multipart/form-data"
>
  <input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Your Name" />
  <input type="email" name="email" placeholder="Your Email" />
  <input type="file" name="attachment" />
  <button type="submit">Send</button>
</form>

It handles multipart/form-data (so file uploads work out of the box) and also application/json for JS-heavy sites. The submissions just show up in a simple dashboard.

I'd love your feedback

I'm posting this here because I'm genuinely not sure if this is just a 'me' problem or if other devs find this as annoying as I do. I'd love for you to take a look and tell me what you think.

Is it solving a real problem? Is something totally broken? Did I just reinvent the wheel for the 1000th time?

Maybe it helps someone save some time at least. Thanks to everyone who reads this.