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Form, by Mason — Build and deploy stunning Airtable-enabled forms
Customize beautifully designed template forms built for customer feedback, user research, and event registration. Every form is already connected to Airtable for easy record collection and management.
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@allnick Hey Nick, thanks for the love. We're really excited to be solving these problems especially when internally we've had to decide on either stitching frankenstein marketing stacks with Zapier or solve the problem. Fun fact.. the whole landing page is 1 Mason component and additionally, all our sign-up forms and half of our product is built on Mason. The sign-up forms connect to our production backends and creates real accounts for our users, while submitting info to Hubspot at the same time. I would love to get your thoughts after you have a chance to check us out.
How is this better than using the endlessly-adaptable @Typeform ?
@kayleighkarutis @theclairbyrd @simongu @thomasmclaughlin @hellodusko @kareemsabri
Hey @elizabethhunker - it's a really good question - we love @Typeform too.. Mason is just a much different product for different uses.
Typeform is *amazing* at forms - anything you want to do, you can do out of the box. For the most part those forms stand on their own, and Typeform lets you really easily capture and handle all the data from your responses in a super clean way, where that data flows into your own Typeform admin view. Very clean
Where a tool like Mason might come into play is if you want to create beautiful forms that are meant to live *within your existing product and tie directly into your product's data*. Sometimes that form might need to grab data from two or three different API endpoints that live in some database somewhere, combine that data with the form response on user submission, and post the data to another API endpoint in your backend. That's where Mason forms fit in.
A really common workflow might be something like:
- Your Frontend layer is powered by a mix of Mason features and your application's existing custom code
- Your Backend is powered by a database like Firebase or Airtable (or anything with a REST API)
- Your standalone form flows (like surveys, feedback flows, NPS, job applications... ie forms where submission data doesn't need to be intermingled with product data) are powered by Typeform
- Your in-product forms are powered by Mason forms, which to your product's backend and any other datasources you might be using.
Feel free to shoot me a note at tom[at]trymason.com and we'd be happy to show a few code samples if you're interested
@elizabethhunker @typeform @thomasmclaughlin Not to mention Mason forms also include powerful and easy to setup integrations like 2 Factor Auth, SSO and re-captcha for login and Stripe for payments.
Today we’re excited to share our newest feature kit, built in Mason and free to use—meet Form, an Airtable-enabled kit that lets you build, customize, and deploy Airtable-connected forms without writing a single line of code.
We built Form because while many Mason users have had some amazing success deploying front-end features, others have run into a common challenge: no back-end to connect their Mason-built features to. Form solves that problem by providing pre-built form templates that are *already connected to Airtable.* That’s right—you pick a form, any form, customize it, and deploy it, and it’s already set up to pipe your form data into Airtable.
The implications for this are major, and we hope you’re as excited about it as we are. What’s more, your Mason-built form will also send data *back* to Mason, where you can further customize how you sort and view it for additional internal management.
That means anyone with a free Airtable account and a free Mason account can create a custom, beautiful form and use it to collect data in literally minutes. No lock-in to a set template; no restrictions in how you choose to design. And if you decide to you want to make a change to your form, you can do so in seconds using Mason’s powerful builder.
We created form with templates for user research, customer feedback, and event registration, but you can use these forms for virtually anything your imagination cooks up.
We are thrilled to put Form out into the wild, and can’t wait to see what you’ll build with it. Thanks!
@jonasmeier Hey Jonas - you certainly could create a blog using Mason as the frontend and your CMS of choice as the backend
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