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TL;DR: 12 years ago I built a service that forwards simple HTML forms to an email address. I&#x27;ve been procrastinating on finishing it ever since, until today. You point your form at it and every submission lands in your inbox. It runs on credits, 1 credit = 1 message, no subscription. Perfect for static websites.<p>—<p>Hey folks, back around 2014, alongside my job as a software engineer, I was building a lot of static websites for my own clients, mostly small businesses that just wanted a simple site. To avoid headaches, I went fully static, often hosted on GitHub Pages and similar.<p>But most clients also wanted a contact form, and a form needs a server running somewhere. I had my own weekend-hacked service for this, which literally just forwarded the form to the client&#x27;s email.<p>I didn&#x27;t invent anything here: one service I particularly remember was FormKeep by thoughtbot, that I really liked.<p>So I started building my own, mostly because I loved losing myself in side projects like this, and also because I was a cheap ass and thought I could do something similar for less, and without a subscription.<p>By 2016 I had done about 90% of what I&#x27;m showing you today. I called it &quot;The Great Forwarder&quot;. Everything was ready: backend, frontend, hosting, Stripe, landing page. I even had a designer friend help with the design (sorry, Valentin, if I&#x27;ve botched it since). Then I started another project, which took off right away and took all my attention for a while. Fun fact: that project has been using this service ever since, and almost every message ever sent through it came from there.<p>So for years, I kept Forwarder.cc up to date, upgrading libraries and trying new ones: axios, got, Redux, Zustand, create-react-app, webpack, Vite… It became my laboratory for everything I wanted to explore, while always staying up and maintained (again, for my own use only).<p>The only thing that ever held me back from launching it was a missing help center, and, more honestly, the fear of putting it in front of people.<p>So today&#x27;s the day: after 12 years of procrastination, I finally finished the help center.<p>I know there are a ton of similar services nowadays, but anyway, what do you think of that help center?

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