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I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software

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Re: I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software

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I work at https://www.pdf-tools.com and we hear this again and again. Despite the proliferation of cloud services, most large enterprises DO NOT want their sensitive documents entering the cloud. And in some cases, e.g. patient medical records, there are strict regulations about how those documents can be stored, which means on-premise is a requirement. Good news for us, as that's what we specialise in, but also perp…

Looks interesting. However, the pricing page with no actual numbers and the ambiguous ‘Contact Us’ is a huge turn off. I cannot stand the dance with business people who want to have a bunch of calls and meetings to know how big a company they’re dealing with is before they decide on a good rate to gouge them. Pricing pages should be straight forward. Have tiers if you want to cover your rear but only at the limit of…

> the pricing page with no actual numbers and the ambiguous ‘Contact Us’ is a huge turn off.

It’s also one of the top-10 web usability mistakes as defined by the Nielsen Norman group.

As in, it drives away far more potential clients than it can possibly convert. It’s a massive anti-pattern.

Re: I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software

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the web app i.e the front end part is next.js and typescript mostly, the landing page is built using astro.js, and the back end is heavily python, flask and some javascript for web-to-pdf and markdown-to-pdf, the rest is mostly python

just curious: what do you use to convert web pages to pdf?

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Re: I built an online PDF management platform using open-source software

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If this is entirely build using open-source software why not open source the site itself? Especially if you aren't planning to turn it into a commercial service.

i'm open-sourcing the backend, but not 100% of the code.
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