It'd be even greater if you could edit all the content, including table headers and field titles, so that users could, for instance, translate their invoices into different languages.
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#12Love this lead gen strategy - offer free super simple tool to your target audience, and you get lots of opportunities to convert them to your full tool.
Adds a ton of value and shows you 'get' your customers before you engage them with your main pitch.
I also really like the personality (e.g. see https://twitter.com/invoiceomatic).
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#13Add the ability to upload a logo and that's the definitive winner in that field
This feature is planned, hopefully will be available soon.
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#14Very nice CSS animation :)
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#15I wrote something similar to this a few years ago:
There's nothing wrong with a bit of competition and it makes me wonder if this space needs something... Why do these keep appearing?
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#16I dont get it. How is this so much better than having
a, say, rtf document template on your own computer and emailing attachments from there? Or if you want to email a pdf there's printing to e.g cute pdf.
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#17I wrote something similar to this a few years ago: http://billable.me There's nothing wrong with a bit of competition and it makes me wonder if this space needs something... Why do these keep appearing?
Ditto, but I never made it public.
I think things like this are nice because they are fun to design and build, but they also provide real value.
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#18That's all? I expected something like duetapp or better.. :/ Here's the same, but opensource so that you can customize to your own needs. http://css-tricks.com/html-invoice/
Note how that doesn't create a PDF.
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#19I wrote something similar to this a few years ago: http://billable.me There's nothing wrong with a bit of competition and it makes me wonder if this space needs something... Why do these keep appearing?
I think because it's a relatively easy idea to come up with, and the implementation details aren't earth-shattering. A year ago I was fixed on making a similar business called MeteorBill and worked part-time on it for a couple months before scrapping it .. I'm happy I did now, as my market research was clearly incomplete, and my UI was startlingly similar to yours and OP's. No great loss, I learned Erlang/OTP and Mnesia via that project.
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#20What does this do for me that the MS Word template that comes installed with Office does not?
EDIT: I'm serious. I can think of several reasons why I would not want to use this, ranging from "I don't want to have to remember a specific URL for this one purpose" all the way up to "I don't want to be sending my invoice data over an unsecured connection to some random statup-of-the-month."