Wufoo is a startup that wants to ease the creation of web forms. While I agree that form design is a pain-point and could use some standard tools, this really strikes me as something that should be an (open-source) library rather than a full company.

We have plans for Wufoo to do far more than just building a form and spitting out some markup. I do agree with your point though, and hopefully when you see the full product it will begin to grow on you.

Thanks for the link and feedback.

Ryan, thanks for your response – I’m excited to see what you guys have in store, as the site looks very slick already.

There is a new player in the online forms space:

http://www.theblueform.com They have a great drag and drop form builder as well as providing approval workflows which can be attached to the forms and mapped to existing business processes. A lot more than just the usual online form builder here.

There’s a more recent and detailed review of Wufoo, including a live data-entry form and several screen captures, plus links to other AJAXified formbuilders at http://oakleafblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/wufoo-challenges-infopath-for-form.html.

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