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Re: Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor

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Post by pshirshov »

philjohnson wrote: post #38
pshirshov wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Lots of options out there and everyone can choose for themselves. You are shilling your stuff at a wrong place, I think. Better apply to YC or, I dunno, go public. Also add some nice catch phrases (e.g. "Blazing Fast", "Production Ready") and emojis here and there.

Show HN is show your product. That's what I'm doing. It's not an open source forum. The only shilling is mentioning other products on someone else's post...

> BentoPDF (12.3k stars): https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf

> PDFCraft (3.6k stars): https://github.com/PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft

> PDFLince (31 stars): https://github.com/GSiesto/pdflince

Re: Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor

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Post by gwerbret »

philjohnson wrote: post #16
fn-mote wrote: post #14

Notice the IMO poor behavior of the author on the previous thread. [1] Search for 'philjohnson'. This post removes the contentious word "free" but still does not convey that no sign-up is required but you are apparently limited to 3 files without signup. Reading the previous thread was a turn-off enough for me to warn you. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47555636

Free is still in this post. It's free to use, you can use the editor as much as you want with 40+ tools. Just a limit of 3 exports.

You've had enough arguments with people in both this thread and the previous that I'm pretty sure you understand what the issue is with your use of the word "free".

What you are offering is NOT a free tool -- it is a demo, for a tool for which you are charging $12/month. No reasonable person would interpret a grand total of 3 exports as enough to justify calling this a "free" tool.

This is to say nothing of your violation of AGPL on the use of MuPDF, which has been pointed out here and elsewhere.

But of course, you're free to Show HN a paid product; just kindly don't insult our collective intelligences in the process.

Re: Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor

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Post by kevlened »

For those looking for an MIT alternative, there's an embeddable solution which uses PDFium (Apache) compiled to wasm instead of MuPDF (AGPL): https://www.embedpdf.com/

There's a hosted version for quick edits: https://app.embedpdf.com/

Discussion from several months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44901683

Neither fully handles XFA, but that's a perennial struggle.

Re: Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor

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Post by bavell »

gwerbret wrote: post #42
philjohnson wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Free is still in this post. It's free to use, you can use the editor as much as you want with 40+ tools. Just a limit of 3 exports.

You've had enough arguments with people in both this thread and the previous that I'm pretty sure you understand what the issue is with your use of the word "free". What you are offering is NOT a free tool -- it is a demo, for a tool for which you are charging $12/month. No reasonable person would interpret a grand total of 3 exports as enough to justify calling this a "free" tool. This is to say nothing of your viol…

> What you are offering is NOT a free tool -- it is a demo, for a tool for which you are charging $12/month

Commonly known as a "free trial"

Re: Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor

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Post by atoav »

philjohnson wrote: post #40
i000 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine a pizza place that allows you to pick from 40+ toppings but you can only order a margherita ;) /s

Bad analogy Imagine a pizza place where you can try three slices for free before you order one? Or that you can make a pizza at the shop, add and remove topping as you wish until you're satisfied?

Also a bad analogy. A slize of pizza has no onboarding cost for the user. You eat it and that is it. A PDF editor requires you to understand how to use it.

A better comparison would be a pizza shop at the end of a long hike that advertised itself online to offer infinite amount of free pizza. So you go on the hike and then it turns out you only get one slice and have to pay a fortune for the rest. You planned to get free food st the end of the hike, but it turns out the food you eventually will have to eat is not free and not even cheap.

This is not free, it is s free trial.

Re: Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor

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Post by tomalbrc »

philjohnson wrote: post #16
fn-mote wrote: post #14

Notice the IMO poor behavior of the author on the previous thread. [1] Search for 'philjohnson'. This post removes the contentious word "free" but still does not convey that no sign-up is required but you are apparently limited to 3 files without signup. Reading the previous thread was a turn-off enough for me to warn you. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47555636

Free is still in this post. It's free to use, you can use the editor as much as you want with 40+ tools. Just a limit of 3 exports.

- BentoPDF (12.3k stars): https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf - PDFCraft (3.6k stars): https://github.com/PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft - PDFLince (31 stars): https://github.com/GSiesto/pdflince

Re: Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor

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Post by Lockal »

1) Not free, also violates AGPL license

2) Please don't call black overlay rectangles as "Redact" - it is maliciously misleading. I checked https://pdfcrowd.com/inspect-pdf/ and I see original parts that I covered with these rectangles (images are stored twice: as originals and as images with cut out regions).

Re: Show HN: BreezePDF – Free, in-browser PDF editor

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Post by philjohnson »

bavell wrote: post #44
gwerbret wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You've had enough arguments with people in both this thread and the previous that I'm pretty sure you understand what the issue is with your use of the word "free". What you are offering is NOT a free tool -- it is a demo, for a tool for which you are charging $12/month. No reasonable person would interpret a grand total of 3 exports as enough to justify calling this a "free" tool. This is to say nothing of your viol…

> What you are offering is NOT a free tool -- it is a demo, for a tool for which you are charging $12/month Commonly known as a "free trial"

Nope. 3 free per month. You'd know that if you tried it. Commonly known as a "free plan"
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