involve.me

Build an interactive quiz or calculator and capture its results

KINDA · partial replacement
price $29/mosubscription / year $348estimated build time one sittingreplaced by 0 people

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.

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What you give up

  • templates, conditional content, calculations, lead integrations, and analytics
  • advanced branching
  • payment and CRM integrations
  • large template libraries
  • enterprise compliance

Why people still pay

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.

Your build guide

The stack, security requirements, and agent rules for a focused replacement.

Before you start

  • Runtime and tools: TypeScript, React, Node and PostgreSQL with versioned form schemas and server-side validation.
  • Before starting: A public HTTPS origin, an administrator account, sample valid/invalid responses and optional verified notification delivery.
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TypeScript, React, Node and PostgreSQL with versioned form schemas and server-side validation
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Data design: Store QuizVersion, Question, Branch, Formula, Submission and Consent; score inputs exclude hidden answers and formula evaluation allows only documented arithmetic operators.
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Setup: A public HTTPS origin, an administrator account, sample valid/invalid responses and optional verified notification delivery
engineering roadmap

Implementation plan

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Phase 1

Pin the working slice and create its example input: Build a short eligibility quiz or calculator with branching questions, a deterministic score explanation and an optional lead capture step. Confirm setup: A public HTTPS origin, an administrator account, sample valid/invalid responses and optional verified notification delivery.

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Phase 2

Implement persistence and write-time invariants before decorating the UI: Store QuizVersion, Question, Branch, Formula, Submission and Consent; score inputs exclude hidden answers and formula evaluation allows only documented arithmetic operators.

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Phase 3

Connect the working view to real saved state. Pin submissions to a published schema version. Re-evaluate branching and required fields on the server, rate-limit public intake, and keep notifications in an outbox separate from accepted responses.

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Phase 4

Expose the app-specific limits and recovery path in context: Use one calculator template and no arbitrary code evaluation. Financial/health outputs must not become personalized professional advice, and generated marketing copy cannot invent outcomes.

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Phase 5

Walk through this concrete acceptance case and preserve its exported evidence: Change an answer so a branch disappears; recompute the score without its previous values and allow the user to view results without silently consenting to marketing. Finish the README and backup/restore instructions; report unfinished capabilities explicitly.

the pro prompt
download AGENTS.md
Build the following focused alternative to involve.me. This is a deliberately limited personal or small-team substitute, not parity with the paid service.

WORKING SLICE
Build a short eligibility quiz or calculator with branching questions, a deterministic score explanation and an optional lead capture step.

SETUP AND ARCHITECTURE
Use TypeScript, React, Node and PostgreSQL with versioned form schemas and server-side validation. Prerequisites: A public HTTPS origin, an administrator account, sample valid/invalid responses and optional verified notification delivery. Before integrating anything, record actual versions and permissions, plus model files or provider limits only where used, in the README; make unavailable dependencies visible rather than simulating success.

DOMAIN MODEL AND INVARIANTS
Store QuizVersion, Question, Branch, Formula, Submission and Consent; score inputs exclude hidden answers and formula evaluation allows only documented arithmetic operators.

IMPLEMENTATION CONTRACT
Pin submissions to a published schema version. Re-evaluate branching and required fields on the server, rate-limit public intake, and keep notifications in an outbox separate from accepted responses. Provide an input/setup view, the main work view, and a review/export view appropriate to this workflow. Preserve the last saved state if a job or save fails. Include empty, loading, permission-denied, partial and retryable-error states. Log identifiers and error categories without secret values or unnecessary private content.

APP-SPECIFIC BOUNDARY AND RECOVERY
Use one calculator template and no arbitrary code evaluation. Financial/health outputs must not become personalized professional advice, and generated marketing copy cannot invent outcomes.

ACCEPTANCE SCENARIO
Change an answer so a branch disappears; recompute the score without its previous values and allow the user to view results without silently consenting to marketing. Also reopen the app after an interrupted operation, confirm the saved record/export remains inspectable, and document the recovery action. These are implementation acceptance requirements, not a claim that this guide has been tested.

DELIVERY
Deliver a runnable repository with migrations or project-format versioning, a non-sensitive example, environment/permission setup, the exact manual acceptance steps, and a backup/export-and-restore walkthrough. Implement the working slice before optional integrations; list any deferred paid-product capabilities honestly. Do not add capabilities outside the working slice just to resemble the original product.

PROJECT RULES FOR AGENTS.md
Keep the domain invariants above executable at the write boundary. Propose scope changes before adding providers or permissions. Never fabricate source evidence, publish results, identity matches or successful delivery. Preserve user originals and require an explicit confirmation for destructive changes or external publication.

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Alternatives to building your own

ForminatorForms, polls, quizzes, calculations, and payments, free as long as you already live inside WordPress$0free↗TypebotConversational forms with serious branching; free to self-host, fair-source, and not a weekend Docker toy$0free↗TallyA very generous free form builder; branding and custom domains are the tax$0free↗

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involve.me pricing

planmonthlyannual (per mo)what you get
free$0/workspace$0/workspace2 live funnels; 50 submissions/month or 500 visits/month; 30-day data retention; 1 user; 100MB storage; 2MB maximum file; 1 website; 0 AI creditsAt the cap, funnels lock until the next calendar month.
start$49/workspace$29/workspace3 live funnels, 1 user, 50 AI credits/month, 500MB storage, 20MB maximum file, 1 payment platform and 1 website
grow$99/workspace$69/workspace5 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/workspace25 live funnels, 5 users, 300 AI credits/month, 5GB storage, 200MB maximum file, 3 custom domains, 10 payment platforms and 3 websites
enterprise—$499/workspaceCustom funnels, traffic, submissions, users, retention, storage, domains, payment platforms and websitesAnnual contracts only; published as starting from $499/month.

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.

pricing sources checked 2026-08-12 · pricing source ↗

Questions about involve.me

Can you build your own involve.me with AI?

Partly. 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.

What does the involve.me build prompt cover?

The prompt starts with this scope: Build a short eligibility quiz or calculator with branching questions, a deterministic score explanation and an optional lead capture step. Full-product capabilities excluded from the comparison include: templates, conditional content, calculations, lead integrations, and analytics; advanced branching; payment and CRM integrations. Follow the implementation plan and its prerequisites before expanding the build.

How do I use the prompt, AGENTS.md and agent skills?

Start with the involve.me prerequisites and stack, then copy the prompt into your coding agent. Save the project rules as AGENTS.md in the project root. Linked skills are optional packages or source instructions for specific tasks; review their current contents and install only those matching the chosen stack. A skill does not supply API credentials or verify the finished app.

How long will this involve.me project take?

The catalogue estimate is one sitting for the limited scope. Setup, integration approvals, debugging, deployment and ongoing maintenance can add time. This is an estimate, not a delivery guarantee.

What would I give up by replacing involve.me?

templates, conditional content, calculations, lead integrations, and analytics; advanced branching; payment and CRM integrations; large template libraries; enterprise compliance. 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.

What price is this guide comparing against?

The recorded Starter plan is $29/mo (monthly), checked 2026-07-31. Check the linked pricing source before buying. Building your own also has hosting, API and maintenance costs; the recorded amount is not a guaranteed saving.

What can I use instead of building involve.me?

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. Compare all listed options at https://howtovibecodeit.dev/involve-me/alternatives. Check each option's license, hosting needs and feature limits.

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