About OnBackend

OnBackend was born out of a real problem.

I was building a course — The Voice AI Agency Blueprint — teaching people how to start their own business selling AI receptionists to local businesses like plumbers, electricians, dentists, and roofers. The kind of businesses that lose customers every time they miss a call.

As part of the course, I built website templates for my students. Editing the templates was easy — they could use AI to change their business name, colors, and content. Deploying them was easy too — push to GitHub, deploy to Vercel, connect a domain. AI handles the heavy lifting.

Then came the hard part: the contact form.

On my own site, the form connects to a database, sends me a notification, and emails the lead a confirmation. I'm a developer — I can wire up Supabase and SendGrid without thinking about it. But my students aren't developers. They're ordinary people starting a business. Asking them to configure a backend, a database, and a transactional email service just to capture a name and email was never going to work.

I looked at existing services like Formsubmit and Formspree. They work, but I didn't want my students signing up for yet another service, and I didn't want their leads sitting in someone else's system.

So I built OnBackend.

One line of code. That's all it takes. Add your API key to a hidden input, point the form action at our endpoint, and you're done. Submissions are stored, emails are sent, and everything shows up in a clean dashboard. No backend, no database, no code.

It started as a tool for my students. Now it's for anyone who needs a form backend without the backend.