Google Forms VS Hydrus

Google Forms Reviews

1. ✓ Adrian | Mobile Forms - Digital Inspections - Enterprise Checklists - Data collection    

   Marketing at Mobile Forms | almost 4 years ago
   A good beginners tool to start your digital transformation.

   One of our customers said: Our small mining operation needed to go from paper based process to digital forms. At first, Google forms allowed us to use this Web-based platform that lets individuals and businesses of all sizes build customizable forms to conduct surveys and generate real-time response charts.

   We saw that a small sample of our field workers quickly adopted the new way of working.

   Step 1: accomplished.

   Now unto step 2.

   How do we deploy this unto our whole team? We needed email notifications, offline response collection when without wifi on the field. Our CIO and his director of operations needed deep data and trends analysis as well. Our inspectors, when doing their audits, needed to capture approx. 25 high definition pictures, some audio notes and a video which wasn't really possible with google forms.

   So, we can 100% credit the use of google forms to our transition towards a paperless process, but as we navigated saashub.com a little more, we were able to discover a world of alternatives. We strongly suggest to start using google forms before undergoing a big implementation plan towards such enterprise level inspection tools like nspek or even cheaper solutions like prontoforms.

   I am not sure if we would start with google's solution first if we would to do this digital transformation all over, but it did allow us to discover it's limits pretty quickly.

   At some point, we needed custom fields and functions, and none of us was able to code, so the nSpek training that comes with the application definitely sets it's self apart, giving us full autonomy.

   🏁 Competitors: nSpek, ProntoForms

   👍 Pros:    No sign up cost

   👎 Cons:    Customization|Customer support|Data protection and security|No video|No pictures

Hydrus Reviews

Google Forms mentions (0)

Hydrus mentions (9)

• I need some pointers on cataloging audio files

  This may be useful: https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Searching for a media tagging website like Tagspace but self-hosted and free

  Hydrus? It's not quite true "self-hosted" (more of a standalone program with the ability to be configured to accept external api requests) but with the api and external programs set to interface with it, you can sort of set it up that way. https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Embed url into downloaded file

  If you want a concrete recommendation, all I can say without knowing exactly what you're doing is: you should at the very least consider solutions other than editing the file. This could mean sidecar files (e.g. info.txt), containers with metadata (e.g. warc), database applications (e.g. hydrus, even though it's a mess), etc. Source: over 2 years ago

• Image library sorting solution.

  Hydrus (https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/)? Not necessarily self-hosted but it does have a docker image, and I think there's ways to turn it into a self-hosted solution (hydrus.app comes to mind). Source: almost 3 years ago

• Looking for a self-hosted Google photos alternative with tags

  Hey Data Curators, I need your advice! I've been using Google Photos to 'organise' my picture library for the past few years, but now I'd like to replace it. For many obvious reasons. What I need is something that I can host myself (like piwigo or lychee), with decent mobile support and reliable auto upload from android. As well as that I really fancy some kind of tag-based file management system on top of that,... Source: almost 3 years ago