Static Forms – open alternative to Formspree for static websites
Static Forms is a new tool designed for static websites, allowing users to easily collect form submissions without needing a backend. It offers features like email notifications, Telegram alerts, and spam protection, making it suitable for freelancers and agencies. The service is free to start and supports multiple client sites from a single account.
- ▪Static Forms allows users to receive form submissions via email or Telegram with minimal setup.
- ▪The service includes spam protection and a dashboard to manage submissions.
- ▪It offers a free tier with essential features and paid plans for additional functionalities.
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
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| Original publisher | Static-forms |
| Canonical URL | https://static-forms.com |
| Publication time | Wed, 27 May 2026 11:01:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-27T11:07:58.868Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-27T11:07:58.868Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | Tb5n-myBJdYU |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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StaticFormsSign inGet started freeYour contact form, actually workingAdd one line to your HTML form and start receiving submissions by email or Telegram. No backend to write, no server to maintain.Start for free →Sign inOne line. That's it.Point your form's action attribute at your unique endpoint. Everything else is handled.contact.html<form action="https://static-forms.com/f/a3kD9xBq" method="POST"> <input type="text" name="name" /> <input type="email" name="email" /> <textarea name="message"></textarea> <button type="submit">Send message</button> </form>Works with any HTML site — Hugo, Jekyll, Astro, Webflow, plain HTML.Everything you needFor freelancers, agencies, and anyone who builds static sites for clients.Email notificationsGet an email the moment someone submits your form — from…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Static-forms.
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