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WordPress plugin: would love to have some feedback!

By Nishant Agrawal on 18 Comments / 3550 views

I should have written this post sooner.

So I wanted to make an amazing form builder. I had some keywords in my mind: drag and drop UI, lightning-fast adding of fields, gorgeous CSS, AJAX-powered, custom-made fields etc …

I was on a long journey, so I made a MVP first. But I still wasn’t sure, so I made a MVP of a MVP. I released the MVP of the MVP on CodeCanyon, the largest WordPress marketplace. People liked it. Then, after 5 – 6 months, I released the MVP (FormCraft). Here is the link:

https://codecanyon.net/item/formcraft-premium-wordpress-form-builder/full_screen_preview/5335056?ref=ncrafts

The response has been pretty good till now. Within a month, it’s one of the top 20 selling plugins on the marketplace. I haven’t done any marketing, organic or paid. I posted this on Hacker News the day after launch. Unexpectedly, within 10 mins, it was on the front page! Unfortunately, I was on shared hosting. And shared hosting can’t support something that is on the front page of HN 😀

I would love to have some feedback from fellow Rodinhooders! Do aesthetics matter? If you are using some other form builders / managers, would you mind using something like FormCraft? If not, what is lacking?

My next step is to take FormCraft to the next step by implementing more features, and launching it as a hosted, cross-platform solution. Will it work?

 EDIT

The online app can take some time. You can signup below to get early beta access 🙂

https://ncrafts.net/blog/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/form.php?id=1

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  1. Does it integrate with Aweber or mailchimp?

  2. Yes, it integrates with AWeber, MailChimp and Campaign Monitor. I am making extensive online docs as well:

    https://ncrafts.net/formcraft/docs/mailchimp-form-integration/

  3. I like it!! Very useful stuff!!

  4.  would love to see how do you compare it to something like wufoo. 

    We have been using wufoo for forms since a couple of years – It can be embedded to WordPress, you can integrate with different services , mailchimp and highrise is the one we use the most.  The form management is easy as we have 20 users.  You can create reports on the data collected. 

    However will definitely suggest my team to try your product. Meanwhile if you can share a quick comparison. Thanks 

  5. I wanted this question!

    Wufoo is a good, and comprehensive form builder. It offers tons of features, and is scalable. But it’s old. Wufoo has made it easier to manage forms, but it hasn’t added anything to the ‘forms’. The forms look, and work, like they are out of the 90s. If you had the time to program, you could make forms like Wufoo does. Wufoo gives you convenience. The same coud be said of most form builders out there.

    This is what makes FormCraft different. My focus, apart from providing you with a good form management tool, is to give you amazing forms. Something you cannot program yourself. Awesome UI, custom-made fields (star rating, smily rating, thumb rating), live conditional logic, auto-saving of form data, etc … I am trying to take forms to the next level. What you see in the preview is a MVP. I can’t match the feature-set of Wufoo, for now.

    My focus on UI (for the front-end, as well as the back-end) seems to be working. When I do support, I often see people using my form builder, and having Gravity Forms lying disabled in their plugins directory. Gravity Forms is like the Wufoo of WordPress. It offers tons of features. But it doesn’t have what FC has – an awesome UI.

    There is a lot more to come to FormCraft. I will now start work on a hosted, cross-platform solution.

  6. I agree your forms look super cool and the UI part is where wufoo lacks big time. 

    How ever the ease with which forms can be created and managed it has saved hundreds of hours of development time and coordination time for us. 

    While all the great looking things are definitely a huge plus – for someone like us to move from wufoo to any other service – the form and data management part is critical. 

    You are on the right track and we will look forward to trying out and improvisations in your offering. 

  7. Yep. You can signup here to get info and beta access to the online app when it comes out

    https://ncrafts.net/blog/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/form.php?id=1

    No other emails / spam will be sent 🙂

    I am looking forward to having your feedback, specially since you are a big-time Wufoo user 

  8. This is fantastic. Can I use this for lead generation?

  9. I’m not sure what you mean. Please elaborate?

  10. Does this screenshot help ? https://clip2net.com/s/5E5QAR

  11. Definitely! That is a very basic use of the form. You can get email notifications of each submission. You can also add emails of people filling out the forms to your mailing list on MailChimp / Aweber / Campaign Monitor. If your users leave behind half-filled up forms, they can come back with their auto-saved data! 

    Tons of features 🙂

    You can read all the features here:

    https://codecanyon.net/item/formcraft-premium-wordpress-form-builder/5335056

  12. Ah yes, I have read that. Can it go one step ahead and lets others access the leads  because eventually ht campus or any other portal will be selling those leads to educational institutes. 

  13. Yes. You can see all form submissions in the WordPress admin panel. So you can give WP access to people.

    Also, you can specify email recipients for each form. On every successful form submission, these recipients will get the form data / leads.

  14. Dear RODINHOOD….KUDOzzzzz for FormCraft ! Glad to share, M building eForms ( comprehensive ) for our portal iDh@ni.Com & also intent to newly integrate FormCraft into it. We need UR xpertized support to conceptualize the most intuitive UI process in iDh@ni eForms ! Kindly do revert on this. Best, MRP

  15. Pl email me your contact credential to spv@anant.co.in

    Have need for your form builder with some extra some Forms related development

  16. Hello,

    I am not taking up custom development work. Sorry!

  17. brilliant man . 

    you have rocked this 🙂

    cheers

    karan 

  18. Hi Nishant, tried playing around and creating sample forms. Found it very good.

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