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We have really easily implemented this service with Nocodb. I think the only feature missing would be the pow catpcha.

I would like to have a moment in my life to write down how we have done it.



Nice! I've used Nocodb quite a bit myself, a big fan of it, especially as a free self hostable alternative to Airtables (which is way overpriced imo).

You have the form data being placed into a table, or being sent somewhere external?


Also, we have tried in the past a Nocodb json field but was buggy. Nocodb 0.260 has been recently released and we would like to give it a try again to store extra data in some forms, like "Type of enquiry" or Support like contact forms, without having to create a table for each case.

We are succesfully using Nocodb as a Headless CMS too (for +10 microsites)


We store submitted data for a while and purge periodically.

We have implemented a multitenant table for multiple websites, depending on which site has been contacted a different webhook is triggered for notification.


very cool setup, I would be interested to read more into it if you do get around to writing it down!


Neat idea, Nocodb is pretty capable. Makes me want to also check if Supabase/Budibase has any decent ability to protect against malicious traffic.

Other things I've considered:

- Appwrite might be another one to look into (might be able to put some or all of these behind cloudflare for another layer).

- Post to some kind of workflow, like n8n and move on from there.

- Use a simple API gateway, pretty easy to isntall Tyk, Kong, etc that can detect malicious traffic.


I've done contact form -> Google sheets -> to my email before for a static react (?) website. Worked quite well and was pretty simple iirc.


nocodb fan here. also would love to see your work.




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