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How Submits.dev works

Submits.dev is a form backend for static sites. You get a URL, point an HTML form at it, and every submission is checked for spam. The clean ones are emailed to you and, if you want, added to a Google Sheet.

You don't run a server, write code that handles the post, or create a password.

What happens to a submission

  1. A visitor fills in your form and presses Send. Their browser posts the fields to your form URL.
  2. Submits.dev saves the submission and sends the visitor to a thank-you page.
  3. In the background, Jev, TypeSafe's spam model, scores the submission.
  4. A clean submission is emailed to your verified addresses and added to your sheet. Likely spam goes to the sheet only, marked as suspected spam. Obvious spam is kept on your dashboard and sent nowhere.

What you need

  • An email address. That address is your login.
  • A site where you can edit the HTML of a form. Any static site works, and so do React, Astro and site builders that let you set a form's action.
  • Optionally, a Google Sheet you can share.

Privacy lists what we store about you and your visitors, who else sees it and how long we keep it.

New here? Create your first form takes about a minute.