How to add a contact form to your static site — no backend, no monthly fee
I got tired of paying for form services or spinning up a backend just to handle contact form submissions. So I built RG Forms — a contact form endpoint backed entirely by a Google Sheet you own. No server, no monthly fee, no third-party storing your data. The idea Most form tools store your submissions on their servers. You pay monthly, you depend on their uptime, and your data lives in their database. RG Forms does the opposite: every submission goes straight into a Google Sheet in your own Google Drive, sent by an Apps Script that you own and control. RG Forms provisions that sheet and script for you in about 90 seconds. After that, your endpoint runs forever at no cost — completely independent of any RG Forms server. Built for static sites If you host on GitHub Pages, Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, or just plain HTML on a CDN, you've hit this wall: there's no backend to receive a form POST. The usual workarounds are a paid form service, a serverless function you have to write and maintain, or standing up a whole backend just for a contact form. RG Forms is built exactly for this. Your endpoint is a plain HTTPS URL you POST to straight from client-side JavaScript — no build step, no serverless function, no server of any kind. Drop the fetch call into your page and you're done. It pairs naturally with any static-site generator (Hugo, Jekyll, Astro, Eleventy, Next export) and any no-code builder that lets you add a snippet of JS. Your static site stays static; the form just works. How it's built RG Forms is a fully static web app. There's no RG Forms server, no database, no backend. Every API call during setup goes directly from your browser to Google using your own OAuth token. Setup (one time, in your browser): Your Browser ├─── Google OAuth ──▶ Short-lived token (memory only) ├─── Google Drive API ──▶ Creates Sheet + Drive folder └─── Apps Script API ──▶ Creates & deploys form handler Live endpoint (after provisioning): Your Website / App └─── POST to script