Show HN: Mailik – Effortlessly Receive Form Responses in Your Inbox

[PondSwimmer]

Hello, Mailik is a really simple tool mostly made by my "szwagier". It was our internal tool for a long time, but now, we want to make it public as it is useful.

Flow: User submits a form on any of your websites -> website uses mailik sdk -> form submission is sent to one or more emails you specified in mailik dashboard.

The reason we made it - we always missed those submissions when they were submitted to CRM somehow.

[pkage]

I like this! I feel like I've written a half-version of this a dozen times, it's nice to see a version which is fully fleshed out.

One feature request: you could likely fully remove the need for an NPM package by accepting POST requests from forms, and staple the API key in with either the URL or an <input type="hidden" value="key"/>—is that in the roadmap?

[maxibenner]

That's what I did here: https://www.simplecontactform.org The presentation isn't fleshed out because we mostly use it for our agency clients but it is the most minimal version I could come up with.

[PondSwimmer]

Good idea! We will add it!

[lord-squirrel]

Isn't it too technical for customers like "freelancers & small companies"? They have to know how to install a npm package and use it which excludes most standard cms sites like wordpress. Why is this not a "no-code" drop in snippet where stuff could be configured in the dashboard.

[godzillabrennus]

Wufoo.com does this. The MBAs won over there though so lots of opportunities to be better.

[oczek]

Nice idea, we will discuss how we could make it happen soon

[AndrewCopeland]

I like the website. Did you start with a specific template?

[oczek]

It's a modification of the https://shadcn-landing-page.vercel.app/

[reportgunner]

Typo in the following sentence on the landing page

> Set up a trigger action which will make Mailik send you the form resposne.

resposne instead of response

edit: another one

> Manage all your forms esponses.

esponses instead of response

[oczek]

Thanks!

[oczek]

fixed, thanks again!

[lr4444lr]

Nice. I always like to see email being leveraged.

[ranger_danger]

Conversely I feel like self-hosters and smaller email services are getting pushed out by spammers and the rotating IP reputation problem with RBLs.

[oczek]

Thanks

[marban]

This has been done a thousand times.

[namanyayg]

nice to see a simple solution to a common problem.

how do you handle spam submissions? do you have any built-in filtering or do you rely on the user's email provider to catch the junk mail?

also, what third party are you using to ensure deliverability of mail?

[oczek]

its not an issue as emails are always send from the same domain - mailik.dev, so you can whitelist in your inbox to make sure its not detected as spam. regarding the spam sumbmision, this is an interesting topic. as for now we're fully leaving building and handling forms for our users, what we do is just handling email delivery :)

[ranger_danger]

Is this FOSS?

[PondSwimmer]

No. We produce a lot of open source - we can definitely provide version to self-host later.