Freeform Update: Why Vibe Surveys Beat Static Forms
Cassius Kiani / Source Code
Length9m
About this audiobook
TLDR: Today we’re sharing an update onFreeform, first launched inSource Codeas an experiment on January 8 by one of Every’s entrepreneurs in residence,Cassius Kiani. He’s been exploring how forms that are fun and uncover the “vibe” of the user are more effective than static ones. We’ve been using Freeform internally for things like job applications and product market-fit surveys, and have seen significant increases in the quality of responses and completion rate.—Brandon GellWas this newsletter forwarded to you?Sign upto get it in your inbox.AI-based vibe coding tools have a blind spot. Sure, they’ve genuinely changed how software is built, allowing developers to work faster and more efficiently. And they’ve proven wildly popular, with legions of customers diving into products that have been carefully designed to create an intuitive, frictionless, even delightful experience for coders.But in this rush to cater to the whims ofdevelopers, less consideration has been paid to whether all this glorious software being churned out is helping the people who use it—the end users.Take online forms, for example. We all know the sinking feeling we get when we go to sign up for a service, apply for a job, or submit our information somewhere and are confronted with an interminable scroll of radio buttons, drop-down menus, and open response fields. While apps and websites have evolved to feel more dynamic and personal, forms remain stubbornly stuck in the checkbox era.Click hereto read the full postWant the full text of all articles in RSS?Become a subscriber, orlearn more.
