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Formsify | Let's Create Better Forms 📋

Project Links 🔗

📌 Website (formsify.vercel.app)

🌐 Twitter (@formsifying)

💻 GitHub Source Code: Web3 App | Smart Contract

Formsify In A Tweet ✒️

Your forms are Good, but they can be Better 💯

👉 Formsify helps you in creating better forms, which are Decentralized, Trustless & Distributed.

Project Evolution 🚀

👉 All the below links show the evolution of project - from building idea to shipping features and finally current state.

Inspiration 📌

👉 Currently available "Online Survey Services" are Centralized, Trust-Based & Dependent.

" Thus, we have challenges of Integrity, Transparency and Accessibility. "

🔎 Let's have a discussion on the problems and drawbacks of Online Survey Services

1. Integrity 🤝

Definition 👋

The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.

Problems 💢

How do you make sure 👇

that the server which holds your information wouldn't be compromised?
that the platform which holds your forms, wouldn't go down?
that the system which holds your data, wouldn't betray you?

2. Transparency 📋

Definition 👋

Operating in such a way that it is easy for others to see what actions were performed.

Problems 💢

How do you confirm 👇

that your data was unaltered?
that your forms were fair to all respondents?
that no-one filled forms on behalf of others?

3. Accessibility ✅

Definition 👋

The information that the user needs must be perceivable to them.

Problems 💢

How do you ensure 👇

that your data will be accessible, even when system goes down?
that your forms can be independently interacted with at all the times?
that access to your information cannot be revoked?

What Formsify Does 💯

👉 Formsify helps in creating Decentralized, Trustless & Distributed forms by giving each form their own digital identity in terms of smart contract and storing them on-chain.

" Thus, we address the challenges of Integrity, Transparency and Accessibility. "

🔎 Let's have a discussion on how Formsify solves the problems and drawbacks of Online Survey Services

1. Integrity 🤝

We make sure 👇

that your data is decentralized and therefore, it remains uncompromised because there isn't any single point of failure.
that your forms are platform independent and the interface can be re-built by anyone if we go down.
that the system isn't controlled by any single entity, therefore betrayal isn't possible until majority of the network gets compromised.

2. Transparency 📋

We confirm 👇

that data is immutable by storing it on Blockchain.
that your forms are unbiased in all scenarios by ensuring that they cannot be altered.
that no-one can fill forms on behalf of others, until and unless respondent's wallet is compromised.

3. Accessibility ✅

We ensure 👇

that your data is accessible, even if go down by storing it on-chain.
that your forms can be independently interacted with by representing them as separate smart contracts.
that access to your information cannot be revoked because no single entity can stop you from accessing it.

Improvements in Web3 Ecosystem 🌐

1. Accountability ❗️

Respondent cannot deny, once their transaction is recorded on-chain which makes them accountable to their responses.

2. Spam Infeasibility ⚠️

Since each form submit will be backed by some amount of gas, it makes the intention of spam entries infeasible in a long run.

3. Independency ☑️

Forms are unbiased and have their own digital identity which cannot be tampered with.

How We Built It 🧱

Each form is represented as an indiviudal smart contract The Smart Contract has following main features:

Owner (Form Deployer)
Fills (Total fills of the deployed form)
maxFills (Maximum fills that are allowed per form)
startTime and endTime (Opening and closing times of form)
allowedTotalFills (Number of fills allowed per user for a particular form)
formHead (Headers of the form which includes the initial parameters of heading and description)
fields (Question fields of the form)
records (Stores responses of the deployed form)
filledRecords (Tracks fill id and total number of fills of a particular address)

We had to make sure that each form response, although stored on-chain, would still remain unreadable to ensure data privacy.

We achieved it using AES Cryptography, where key of each form would be unique, generated using react-uuid and encryption-decryption is carried out using crypto-js.

App is based on following:

made using React
styled using Tailwind
designed using DaisyUI
data is stored on Firebase
chain on which forms are stored is Polygon
connect wallet funtionality is abstracted from RainbowKit
chain APIs are fetched from Alchemy
web3 app is deployed on Vercel

Challenges Tackled Down 😎

deploying smart contracts from frontend
synchronizing block time and local time of forms deployed on-chain
maintaining data privacy while storing data on-chain
cryptographic encryption and decryption of fetched form data locally
setting form parameters of smart contracts to ensure fill frequency and limits

Accomplishments 😇

👉 Formsify has been a part of 🦄 Buildspace's Nights and Weekends Program - Season 1 and was also presented under their "Demo Day" held on 6.8.2022

What We Learned 🎓

Added the following learnings to our portfolio:

Pre-planning of solution before coding does matter. (We learnt it the hard-way. 😅)
Making separate components helps in saving a lot of development time. (Reusability is highly underrated! ⌛️)
Take proper backups before forcing a git repo to commit back to previous release. (Just in case you mess up like us, there is a command called 'git reflog', use it wisely. May the force be with you! 🌌)
Things which work locally, can create serious problems after deployement, if left untested. (What happens on localhost, stays on localhost. 😬)
Conduct experiments on a trial project before breaking up the main code. (Breaking & fixing is the endgame after all. 😌)

What's Next For Formsify 👀

We are looking forward on the inclusion of following features:

make dynamic smart contract creation based on forms
include more customization options
have forms record information as solitary variables instead of a JSON string
provide saving & editing functionalities for form respondents
add editable smart contract functions for after deployment changes