Vibecode involve.me
track this build5 steps, step by step0%The core loop is buildable, but a dependable replacement becomes a real weekend or multi-day project. For involve.me, build an interactive quiz or calculator and capture its results. The hard boundary is templates, conditional content, calculations, lead integrations, and analytics, plus integrations, deliverability, and workflow depth.
You are building a lean indie version of involve.me. Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt. ===== README.md ===== # involve.me indie build ## Goal Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core involve.me workflow for one developer or a tiny team. ## Scope Build a public interactive quiz, calculator, or form, validate submissions, notify the owner, and provide a private response table with CSV export. ## Quick start 1. Install the documented dependencies. 2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. 3. Run the development command chosen during implementation. 4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`. ## Honest limits This build deliberately does not replace: - templates, conditional content, calculations, lead integrations, and analytics - advanced branching - payment and CRM integrations - large template libraries - enterprise compliance If those capabilities are essential, use Formbricks instead of pretending the gap is solved. ===== AGENTS.md ===== # Agent instructions - Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build. - Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief. - Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims. - Keep secrets out of source control and logs. - Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths. - Run the project checks before declaring the build complete. - Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs". ===== BUILD_PLAN.md ===== # Build plan ## Original build brief Build a personal replacement for involve.me in an empty repository. Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, SQLite, Drizzle ORM, and Resend; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: build a public interactive quiz, calculator, or form, validate submissions, notify the owner, and provide a private response table with CSV export. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Create a form builder with short text, long text, email, number, select, radio, checkbox, and file fields. Publish each form at a stable slug with server-side validation and accessible labels. Add honeypot, rate limiting, submission-size limits, and a clear privacy notice. Store responses in SQLite and provide search, filters, detail view, and CSV export. Send an owner notification without placing submitted values in logs. Support a thank-you screen and one simple conditional branch. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out payment collection. Deliberately leave out hundreds of third-party integrations. Deliberately leave out multi-brand enterprise workspaces and compliance attestations. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Required capabilities - Node.js 22 - Resend API key or SMTP credentials - self-hosted deploy target ## Delivery order 1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands. 2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow. 3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence. 4. Cover the critical path with automated tests. 5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step. ## Done when - A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README. - The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it. - Tests cover the highest-risk behavior. - Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden. ===== .env.example ===== # Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced. # Never put real credentials in this file. APP_ENV=development # Add only values required by the selected implementation.
You are building a lean indie version of involve.me. Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt. ===== README.md ===== # involve.me indie build ## Goal Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core involve.me workflow for one developer or a tiny team. ## Scope Build a public interactive quiz, calculator, or form, validate submissions, notify the owner, and provide a private response table with CSV export. ## Quick start 1. Install the documented dependencies. 2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. 3. Run the development command chosen during implementation. 4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`. ## Honest limits This build deliberately does not replace: - templates, conditional content, calculations, lead integrations, and analytics - advanced branching - payment and CRM integrations - large template libraries - enterprise compliance If those capabilities are essential, use Formbricks instead of pretending the gap is solved. ===== AGENTS.md ===== # Agent instructions - Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build. - Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief. - Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims. - Keep secrets out of source control and logs. - Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths. - Run the project checks before declaring the build complete. - Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs". ===== BUILD_PLAN.md ===== # Build plan ## Original build brief Build a personal replacement for involve.me in an empty repository. Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, SQLite, Drizzle ORM, and Resend; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: build a public interactive quiz, calculator, or form, validate submissions, notify the owner, and provide a private response table with CSV export. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Create a form builder with short text, long text, email, number, select, radio, checkbox, and file fields. Publish each form at a stable slug with server-side validation and accessible labels. Add honeypot, rate limiting, submission-size limits, and a clear privacy notice. Store responses in SQLite and provide search, filters, detail view, and CSV export. Send an owner notification without placing submitted values in logs. Support a thank-you screen and one simple conditional branch. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out payment collection. Deliberately leave out hundreds of third-party integrations. Deliberately leave out multi-brand enterprise workspaces and compliance attestations. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Required capabilities - Node.js 22 - Resend API key or SMTP credentials - self-hosted deploy target ## Delivery order 1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands. 2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow. 3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence. 4. Cover the critical path with automated tests. 5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step. ## Done when - A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README. - The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it. - Tests cover the highest-risk behavior. - Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden. ===== .env.example ===== # Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced. # Never put real credentials in this file. APP_ENV=development # Add only values required by the selected implementation.
You are building a production product version of involve.me. Create the following project files first, then implement the application by following them. Keep the files updated as decisions change. Do not collapse this into a single README or prompt. ===== PRODUCT.md ===== # involve.me product brief ## Problem The core loop is buildable, but a dependable replacement becomes a real weekend or multi-day project. For involve.me, build an interactive quiz or calculator and capture its results. The hard boundary is templates, conditional content, calculations, lead integrations, and analytics, plus integrations, deliverability, and workflow depth. ## Product outcome Build a public interactive quiz, calculator, or form, validate submissions, notify the owner, and provide a private response table with CSV export. ## Target user A serious builder who needs a maintainable product foundation rather than a one-off demo. ## Required capabilities - Node.js 22 - Resend API key or SMTP credentials - self-hosted deploy target ## Explicit non-goals for v1 - templates, conditional content, calculations, lead integrations, and analytics - advanced branching - payment and CRM integrations - large template libraries - enterprise compliance ## Success criteria - The primary workflow is measurable end to end. - Setup is reproducible in a clean environment. - Failure, recovery, and support paths are documented. - Product claims match what the implementation actually guarantees. ===== ARCHITECTURE.md ===== # Architecture ## Starting brief Build a personal replacement for involve.me in an empty repository. Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, SQLite, Drizzle ORM, and Resend; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: build a public interactive quiz, calculator, or form, validate submissions, notify the owner, and provide a private response table with CSV export. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Create a form builder with short text, long text, email, number, select, radio, checkbox, and file fields. Publish each form at a stable slug with server-side validation and accessible labels. Add honeypot, rate limiting, submission-size limits, and a clear privacy notice. Store responses in SQLite and provide search, filters, detail view, and CSV export. Send an owner notification without placing submitted values in logs. Support a thank-you screen and one simple conditional branch. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out payment collection. Deliberately leave out hundreds of third-party integrations. Deliberately leave out multi-brand enterprise workspaces and compliance attestations. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Boundaries Separate the product into replaceable modules for interface, application logic, persistence, external integrations, and operational concerns. Keep domain logic independent from delivery frameworks and vendors. ## Production baseline - Configuration: validated at startup with safe local defaults where possible. - Security: least privilege, input validation, secret redaction, rate limits on abuse-prone paths, and no invented security primitives. - Data: explicit schema and migrations, transactional writes where integrity matters, backup and restore instructions. - Integrations: adapters around third-party providers, idempotent webhook or job processing, bounded retries, and timeouts. - Observability: structured logs with request or operation IDs, an error-tracking hook, and health/readiness checks where a server exists. - Quality: unit tests for domain rules, integration tests at module boundaries, and one end-to-end critical-path test. ## Decision records For each major dependency, document why it was chosen, its failure mode, and how it can be replaced. Do not introduce infrastructure until a requirement justifies it. ===== AGENTS.md ===== # Agent instructions - Read `PRODUCT.md` and `ARCHITECTURE.md` before changing code. - Implement milestone by milestone; keep each change reviewable and leave the application runnable. - Treat authentication, payments, encryption, imports, webhooks, and destructive actions as high-risk boundaries when present. - Never invent cryptography or silently weaken a requirement to make a test pass. - Use provider interfaces for external services and deterministic fakes in tests. - Add migrations and rollback or recovery notes for persistent data changes. - Log useful operational context without credentials, tokens, passwords, or personal data. - Update documentation and run all checks before completing a milestone. ===== MILESTONES.md ===== # Delivery milestones ## M0 — Decisions and scaffold - Confirm the runtime, persistence model, threat boundaries, and deployment target. - Create a reproducible local environment and continuous checks. ## M1 — Core workflow - Implement the smallest end-to-end product path with validation and tests. - Keep integrations behind interfaces. ## M2 — Trust layer - Add secure failure behavior, recovery paths, audit-relevant events, and data safeguards. - Test abuse cases and destructive operations. ## M3 — Operability - Add structured logs, error reporting hooks, health signals, backup/restore documentation, and deployment configuration. ## M4 — Release gate - Run a clean-install test, critical-path end-to-end test, dependency review, and documented rollback exercise. - Compare the shipped behavior with `PRODUCT.md` and publish remaining limitations. ===== OPERATIONS.md ===== # Operations ## Before release - Validate configuration and secrets at startup. - Define backup, restore, and rollback procedures and test them. - Document logs, error tracking, health signals, and alert ownership. - Set dependency update and vulnerability review expectations. ## Incident checklist 1. Contain the issue without destroying evidence or user data. 2. Record the timeline and affected scope. 3. Rotate exposed secrets and revoke compromised sessions or credentials. 4. Restore from a verified source when needed. 5. Document the root cause, remediation, and regression test. ## Launch constraint Do not market omitted involve.me capabilities as implemented. The v1 non-goals in `PRODUCT.md` remain user-visible limitations until they are deliberately delivered.
# involve.me indie build ## Goal Build the smallest trustworthy replacement for the core involve.me workflow for one developer or a tiny team. ## Scope Build a public interactive quiz, calculator, or form, validate submissions, notify the owner, and provide a private response table with CSV export. ## Quick start 1. Install the documented dependencies. 2. Copy `.env.example` to `.env`. 3. Run the development command chosen during implementation. 4. Complete the acceptance checks in `BUILD_PLAN.md`. ## Honest limits This build deliberately does not replace: - templates, conditional content, calculations, lead integrations, and analytics - advanced branching - payment and CRM integrations - large template libraries - enterprise compliance If those capabilities are essential, use Formbricks instead of pretending the gap is solved.
# Agent instructions - Optimize for a working, understandable weekend build. - Prefer the fewest moving parts that satisfy the brief. - Do not invent cryptography, security guarantees, APIs, or compliance claims. - Keep secrets out of source control and logs. - Add focused tests for destructive, security-sensitive, and data-loss paths. - Run the project checks before declaring the build complete. - Record any deliberate shortcut in the README under "Tradeoffs".
# Build plan ## Original build brief Build a personal replacement for involve.me in an empty repository. Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, SQLite, Drizzle ORM, and Resend; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: build a public interactive quiz, calculator, or form, validate submissions, notify the owner, and provide a private response table with CSV export. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Create a form builder with short text, long text, email, number, select, radio, checkbox, and file fields. Publish each form at a stable slug with server-side validation and accessible labels. Add honeypot, rate limiting, submission-size limits, and a clear privacy notice. Store responses in SQLite and provide search, filters, detail view, and CSV export. Send an owner notification without placing submitted values in logs. Support a thank-you screen and one simple conditional branch. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out payment collection. Deliberately leave out hundreds of third-party integrations. Deliberately leave out multi-brand enterprise workspaces and compliance attestations. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Required capabilities - Node.js 22 - Resend API key or SMTP credentials - self-hosted deploy target ## Delivery order 1. Scaffold the smallest runnable application and document its commands. 2. Implement the primary data model and core workflow. 3. Add validation, safe failure states, and persistence. 4. Cover the critical path with automated tests. 5. Exercise a clean install from the README and fix every missing step. ## Done when - A new user can go from clone to first successful workflow using only the README. - The core workflow works without paid infrastructure unless the brief requires it. - Tests cover the highest-risk behavior. - Known limitations are explicit rather than hidden.
# Copy to .env and document every variable when it is introduced. # Never put real credentials in this file. APP_ENV=development # Add only values required by the selected implementation.
# involve.me product brief ## Problem The core loop is buildable, but a dependable replacement becomes a real weekend or multi-day project. For involve.me, build an interactive quiz or calculator and capture its results. The hard boundary is templates, conditional content, calculations, lead integrations, and analytics, plus integrations, deliverability, and workflow depth. ## Product outcome Build a public interactive quiz, calculator, or form, validate submissions, notify the owner, and provide a private response table with CSV export. ## Target user A serious builder who needs a maintainable product foundation rather than a one-off demo. ## Required capabilities - Node.js 22 - Resend API key or SMTP credentials - self-hosted deploy target ## Explicit non-goals for v1 - templates, conditional content, calculations, lead integrations, and analytics - advanced branching - payment and CRM integrations - large template libraries - enterprise compliance ## Success criteria - The primary workflow is measurable end to end. - Setup is reproducible in a clean environment. - Failure, recovery, and support paths are documented. - Product claims match what the implementation actually guarantees.
# Architecture ## Starting brief Build a personal replacement for involve.me in an empty repository. Use Next.js 15, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, SQLite, Drizzle ORM, and Resend; do not offer alternative stacks. The core loop is: build a public interactive quiz, calculator, or form, validate submissions, notify the owner, and provide a private response table with CSV export. Make the first run work locally with one documented command. Store all user data locally by default and make export straightforward. Put secrets in .env, ship .env.example, and never commit credentials. Create a form builder with short text, long text, email, number, select, radio, checkbox, and file fields. Publish each form at a stable slug with server-side validation and accessible labels. Add honeypot, rate limiting, submission-size limits, and a clear privacy notice. Store responses in SQLite and provide search, filters, detail view, and CSV export. Send an owner notification without placing submitted values in logs. Support a thank-you screen and one simple conditional branch. Include clear empty, loading, success, and recoverable error states. Add input validation, safe filenames, and graceful handling of unavailable APIs. Write focused tests for the core transformation and one end-to-end happy path. Create a README with setup, architecture, permissions, data location, and backup steps. Do not add accounts, billing, telemetry, analytics, or a hosted control plane. Deliberately leave out payment collection. Deliberately leave out hundreds of third-party integrations. Deliberately leave out multi-brand enterprise workspaces and compliance attestations. Finish by running the tests and listing the exact commands used. ## Boundaries Separate the product into replaceable modules for interface, application logic, persistence, external integrations, and operational concerns. Keep domain logic independent from delivery frameworks and vendors. ## Production baseline - Configuration: validated at startup with safe local defaults where possible. - Security: least privilege, input validation, secret redaction, rate limits on abuse-prone paths, and no invented security primitives. - Data: explicit schema and migrations, transactional writes where integrity matters, backup and restore instructions. - Integrations: adapters around third-party providers, idempotent webhook or job processing, bounded retries, and timeouts. - Observability: structured logs with request or operation IDs, an error-tracking hook, and health/readiness checks where a server exists. - Quality: unit tests for domain rules, integration tests at module boundaries, and one end-to-end critical-path test. ## Decision records For each major dependency, document why it was chosen, its failure mode, and how it can be replaced. Do not introduce infrastructure until a requirement justifies it.
# Agent instructions - Read `PRODUCT.md` and `ARCHITECTURE.md` before changing code. - Implement milestone by milestone; keep each change reviewable and leave the application runnable. - Treat authentication, payments, encryption, imports, webhooks, and destructive actions as high-risk boundaries when present. - Never invent cryptography or silently weaken a requirement to make a test pass. - Use provider interfaces for external services and deterministic fakes in tests. - Add migrations and rollback or recovery notes for persistent data changes. - Log useful operational context without credentials, tokens, passwords, or personal data. - Update documentation and run all checks before completing a milestone.
# Delivery milestones ## M0 — Decisions and scaffold - Confirm the runtime, persistence model, threat boundaries, and deployment target. - Create a reproducible local environment and continuous checks. ## M1 — Core workflow - Implement the smallest end-to-end product path with validation and tests. - Keep integrations behind interfaces. ## M2 — Trust layer - Add secure failure behavior, recovery paths, audit-relevant events, and data safeguards. - Test abuse cases and destructive operations. ## M3 — Operability - Add structured logs, error reporting hooks, health signals, backup/restore documentation, and deployment configuration. ## M4 — Release gate - Run a clean-install test, critical-path end-to-end test, dependency review, and documented rollback exercise. - Compare the shipped behavior with `PRODUCT.md` and publish remaining limitations.
# Operations ## Before release - Validate configuration and secrets at startup. - Define backup, restore, and rollback procedures and test them. - Document logs, error tracking, health signals, and alert ownership. - Set dependency update and vulnerability review expectations. ## Incident checklist 1. Contain the issue without destroying evidence or user data. 2. Record the timeline and affected scope. 3. Rotate exposed secrets and revoke compromised sessions or credentials. 4. Restore from a verified source when needed. 5. Document the root cause, remediation, and regression test. ## Launch constraint Do not market omitted involve.me capabilities as implemented. The v1 non-goals in `PRODUCT.md` remain user-visible limitations until they are deliberately delivered.
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People still pay for involve.me because a basic form is trivial; people pay when the form feeds a dependable business workflow and never loses a response. The recurring cost buys spam control, email delivery, storage, exports, accessibility, conditional logic, and integrations, not just the visible interface.
xtemplates, conditional content, calculations, lead integrations, and analytics
xadvanced branching
xpayment and CRM integrations
xlarge template libraries
xenterprise compliance
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involve.me pricing
| plan | monthly | annual (per mo) | what you get |
|---|---|---|---|
| free | $0/workspace | $0/workspace | 2 live funnels; 50 submissions/month or 500 visits/month; 30-day data retention; 1 user; 100MB storage; 2MB maximum file; 1 website; 0 AI credits |
| start | $49/workspace | $29/workspace | 3 live funnels, 1 user, 50 AI credits/month, 500MB storage, 20MB maximum file, 1 payment platform and 1 website |
| grow | $99/workspace | $69/workspace | 5 live funnels, 2 users, 100 AI credits/month, 1GB storage, 50MB maximum file, 1 custom domain, 2 payment platforms and 1 website |
| scale | $199/workspace | $139/workspace | 25 live funnels, 5 users, 300 AI credits/month, 5GB storage, 200MB maximum file, 3 custom domains, 10 payment platforms and 3 websites |
| enterprise | — | $499/workspace | Custom funnels, traffic, submissions, users, retention, storage, domains, payment platforms and websites |
free tier2 live funnels; 50 submissions/month or 500 visits/month; 30-day retention; 1 user; 100MB storage; 2MB maximum file; 1 website; 0 AI credits
billingmonthly + annual prepaid (up to 40% off); Enterprise is annual-contract only; 14-day premium trial requires a card and auto-converts unless canceled
hidden costsExtra seats cost $10/user/month on Grow and Scale, and extra custom domains cost $10/month. EU VAT is extra. Paid-plan submission caps are not disclosed on the current public pricing page.
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Vibecode involve.me
Kinda. The core of involve.me is buildable in a weekend with the prompt on this page, but there are real gaps: templates, conditional content, calculations, lead integrations, and analytics, advanced branching. Read the honest list above before committing.
How much does involve.me cost?
involve.me costs about $29/month (Starter, checked 2026-07-31), which is $348 per year.
What do I lose by replacing involve.me?
Honestly: templates, conditional content, calculations, lead integrations, and analytics; advanced branching; payment and CRM integrations; large template libraries; enterprise compliance. If any of those are load-bearing for you, keep paying.
Is there an open-source alternative to involve.me?
Yes: Forminator (Forms, polls, quizzes, calculations, and payments, free as long as you already live inside WordPress) Typebot (Conversational forms with serious branching; free to self-host, fair-source, and not a weekend Docker toy) Tally (A very generous free form builder; branding and custom domains are the tax) All 3 curated free alternatives are at vibecodeit.com/involve-me/alternatives. The prompt is for when you want it exactly your way.