Build a feedback form with no backend at all

The moment a page needs to “collect” something, most tutorials send you off to build an API. For a lot of real-world cases — a quick poll, a signup interest check, collecting reactions to a prototype — that’s far more machinery than the job needs.

Pattern 1: the comment thread IS the form

If what you’re collecting is opinions, you may not need form fields at all — comments on the page may be the whole mechanism. Host the page on FileShare Pro, enable comments, and ask your question right in the page: “Which option should we ship — A or B, and why?” Respondents answer with their name attached, everyone can see the tally forming, and you never touched a database.

Pattern 2: mailto for tiny volumes

For a handful of responses, a plain HTML form with action="mailto:you@example.com" delivers submissions straight to your inbox. It’s inelegant — the sender’s mail client opens — but it’s zero infrastructure and fine for a dozen replies from people who know you.

Pattern 3: put the question on a proper mini-site

Mini-sites are live now. You can publish several HTML pages under one link, each at its own path, edited as a draft and published together — a better home for a survey or a decision than a single orphan file, because the question, the context and the options can each get their own page.

To be precise about what this does and does not do yet: the pages are static, and the comment thread is still what captures responses. The sandboxed data store that would let a form POST straight into your dashboard is in development, not shipped.