PortForm
Form submissions to your inbox, without a backend
Developer Tools·Productivity·Operations & Logistics
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About
PortForm lets you add working forms to any website without building or running a backend.
Whether you're a founder, freelancer, designer, student, marketer, or developer, you can set up a contact form, waitlist, signup, survey, or lead capture form without knowing backend development.
Already have a form? Just point it to PortForm.
Building a new one? Describe what you want and let an AI coding agent wire it up for you.
PortForm provides pre-built prompts and MCP support for tools like Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents. Your agent can create the form, connect it to PortForm, and set up the submission flow in your project.
Once it's connected, PortForm handles the backend work:
- Stores every submission first\
- Sends it to your inbox\
- Filters spam\
- Retries failed deliveries\
- Sends submissions to Slack, Google Sheets, Notion, Airtable, webhooks, Zapier, Make, n8n, and more\
- Gives you a dashboard to manage everything
No server. No database. No email infrastructure. No JavaScript required.
Works with HTML, React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte, Astro, Hugo, WordPress, Framer, Webflow, and anything that can send an HTTP request.
Why I built PortForm
Building a form should not require building an entire backend.
You should be able to say:
“I need a contact form.”
…and have it working in your project without spending hours setting up storage, email delivery, spam protection, retries, and integrations.
That's what PortForm does.
Free to start with 300 submissions every rolling 30 days.
No credit card. No trial clock.
You can also explore the full demo without signing up.
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