Watch it work Collect 10 seconds
Responses land, live
A survey goes out, and for the rest of the day the question is whether anyone is answering. The answer sits behind a login, in a table.
10 seconds, silent. The running product on our demo workspace, no narration and nothing added to the frame.
What Forma does
Every Forma form has a live pulse page: one link, no login, the count and nothing else. It checks for new responses every ten seconds, so a submission shows up while the page is open. Forward the link to whoever asked, and they watch the number move on their phone.
How it works
Any published form can carry a pulse link. Turning Share on from the responses page mints an opaque token, 24 random bytes, and stores it on the form. That token is the whole credential: no account, no login, and it stays valid until you turn Share off.
The pulse page asks the server for the form’s numbers every ten seconds. The server answers with aggregate counts only: how many responses have landed and how many are in progress. Answers, names, emails and devices are never in that reply, so there is nothing on the page to leak.
Turning Share off drops the token. The link stops working at once, and a dropped or mistyped token returns a plain not-found page rather than a hint that the form exists.
What the clip does not show
- The submission that lands mid-clip was sent by our recording script to the form’s public endpoint, the same call a member’s browser makes on Submit. It was removed after the take, which is why the count reads 57 again in the other clips of this form.
- The page can trail a real submission by up to ten seconds, one poll. The clip holds through the interval rather than faking an instant update.
- The workspace is our Demo Association on a staging copy of the product. The pulse page is the same code that serves customers.