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Guides, tutorials, and updates from the InputHaven team.

Guide2025-01-158 min read

Why You Should Use a Form Backend Instead of Building Your Own

Building a form handler sounds simple until you need spam filtering, email notifications, file uploads, rate limiting, and a dashboard. Here's why a form backend saves you weeks.

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Feature2025-01-106 min read

How AI Spam Filtering Works in InputHaven

Traditional spam filters use keyword lists. InputHaven uses Claude to understand context and intent. Learn how our AI spam filtering catches what rule-based filters miss.

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Tutorial2025-01-0510 min read

Build a Contact Form in React with InputHaven

A step-by-step guide to building a production-ready contact form in React. Includes form validation, loading states, error handling, and spam protection.

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Guide2024-12-209 min read

Form Handling in Next.js: Server Actions vs API Routes vs Form Backend

Compare three approaches to handling forms in Next.js. When to use server actions, when to use API routes, and when to use a form backend service.

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Feature2024-12-155 min read

Route Form Submissions to the Right Team with Email Routing Rules

Send sales inquiries to your sales team and support requests to support. Learn how to set up conditional email routing in InputHaven.

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Comparison2024-12-107 min read

InputHaven vs Formspree: A Detailed Comparison for 2025

A detailed comparison of InputHaven and Formspree. See how InputHaven offers 10x more free submissions and 80% lower prices with more features.

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Tutorial2024-12-056 min read

How to Add Forms to Static Sites (Astro, Hugo, Jekyll, 11ty)

Static sites can't process form submissions. Here's how to add working contact forms to Astro, Hugo, Jekyll, Eleventy, and other static site generators.

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Guide2024-11-288 min read

Form Security Best Practices: Protecting Your Web Forms from Abuse

Web forms are one of the most attacked surfaces on the internet. Here are the security measures every form should have, and how InputHaven implements them.

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Tutorial2024-11-207 min read

How to Set Up Webhooks: Forward Form Submissions to Slack, Zapier, and More

Connect your forms to Slack, Discord, Zapier, Make, n8n, or your own backend using InputHaven webhooks with HMAC-SHA256 verification.

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Feature2024-11-155 min read

Build Forms Visually and Export Production-Ready Code

InputHaven's visual form builder lets you drag, configure, and export forms as HTML, React, or Next.js code. No more writing form markup by hand.

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Tutorial2024-11-087 min read

Form Integration Guide for Vue and Svelte

Complete integration examples for Vue 3 (Composition API) and Svelte/SvelteKit with InputHaven. Loading states, error handling, and TypeScript included.

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