Your contact form goes nowhere

Somebody may have tried to hire you through your website last week. You'll never know.

Of all the traps people fall into vibe coding their own website, this is the cruellest one. Ask AI for a website and it will build you a lovely contact form. Name, email, message, a send button, a polite thank you when someone submits.

But a form needs plumbing behind it. Something has to catch each message and deliver it to your inbox. The AI builds the part you can see, and very often there is nothing behind it at all.

So the visitor hits send, reads thanks for your message, and walks away believing they've contacted you. The enquiry goes nowhere.

And nobody chases up a form they think went through. They assume you ignored them, and they ring your competitor instead. Every day the site is live like that, it's quietly turning away the exact people who wanted to pay you.

Two steps fix it.

First, tell the AI: connect this form to a free form service that emails me every submission. It will pick one and wire it in for you. You don't need to know how the plumbing works, only that it exists.

Second, the test. Before you share your site with anyone, fill in your own form and check the message lands in your inbox. Then repeat that test after any refactor or tidy-up, because this is exactly the kind of thing a restructure silently breaks.

Go and send yourself a message through your own website right now. Two minutes, and you'll know whether your front door is actually open.