Ask HN: Is anyone interested in a PDF rendering service?

#1

Post by danioso » Thu, Aug 04, 2016, 5:18 AM UTC

We are generating PDF files from data in XML or JSON with a different approach from other available solutions. It is for hight quality output, simpler to use and very flexible. You will be able to use our tools to design your documents with ease and integrate your service with a simple API. It scales quickly from 1 to more than 100 million PDF files per month.

I will share more details soon. If you are interested, request access to the private beta at https://goo.gl/forms/FlLUSKuMHfeaDrlr2

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone interested in a PDF rendering service?

#2

Post by CyberFonic » Thu, Aug 04, 2016, 7:25 AM UTC

We render all our own PDFs. It's no biggie. So how is your service more useful? There needs to be some substantial benefit for our firm before I will approve investing tech resources to check out your beta site.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone interested in a PDF rendering service?

#3

Post by danioso » Thu, Aug 04, 2016, 2:56 PM UTC

CyberFonic wrote: post #2

We render all our own PDFs. It's no biggie. So how is your service more useful? There needs to be some substantial benefit for our firm before I will approve investing tech resources to check out your beta site.

Hello, thank you for asking!

Generating PDF files from XML or JSON is usually a very simple task, however, there are some use cases hard to address.

We recently worked with a team with needs to generate 15 million of PDF files with 10 thousand different designs and the main problem was they were spending one or two weeks with one full resource to develop any new design (with requirements to develop 5 to 10 additional designs per month). We were able to reduce the time to one or two days per design, not weeks, the substantial benefit was reducing time and costs.

If you have a similar or particular escenario contact us it will be nice to know if we can help.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone interested in a PDF rendering service?

#4

Post by allendoerfer » Sat, Aug 06, 2016, 8:23 PM UTC

If you want to sell something like that, I think you have to find a use-case for non-technical users they cannot satisfy for free elsewhere. Or you go after enterprise. "XML or JSON" inside the product description will probably attract only people, who will just pipe some OSS together. HN is probably not your target audience, either.

Re: Ask HN: Is anyone interested in a PDF rendering service?

#5

Post by danioso » Sun, Aug 07, 2016, 6:13 AM UTC

allendoerfer wrote: post #4

If you want to sell something like that, I think you have to find a use-case for non-technical users they cannot satisfy for free elsewhere. Or you go after enterprise. "XML or JSON" inside the product description will probably attract only people, who will just pipe some OSS together. HN is probably not your target audience, either.

Thanks for your feedback and I agree with you. I just wanted to know what could happen with the post, and it looks like it's not the right target audience. Anyway, I will post next month a demo on Show HN to see what happens :)