🆕 Introducing PDFGen - Dynamic PDF Generation for your app. With PDFGen, you can create an HTML template, send data to our API, and get a PDF back. Includes Tailwind out-of-the-box for styling Would you give it a try and let me know what you think? 🙏

In almost every project of mine, I need to generate PDFs. I always do the same thing: * Fight with Docker to install puppeteer * Hit the 50mb limit with serverless functions * Eventually get it working after days

As I was working on the invoicing module for @courselift, I decided I didn't want to have to recreate the same stuff for PDFs for every project anymore. So I decided to take a quick detour and create PDFGen

I'll add more features over time but for now hopefully it can add some value for you! Appreciate you trying it out and any feedback you may have 🙏

I did struggle with this exact use-case for one of my projects. Super helpful! Thanks a lot 🙏 Just curious, how do you solve for the api limit problem of the serverless function?

thanks! for the most part I would just defer to a small dedicated server that only runs PDFs. there are some products that help to optimize puppeteer for serverless but I haven't given them a good shot.

is a similar product. Pain points I’ve seen after extensive usage: - expression language is limited. Would be great to be able to write procedural (let me use variables) low code anywhere (like Retool) - drag and drop interface can be clunky

@markhalonen2 thanks for sharing your experience there! I haven't used that product but I think I inherently shy away from the template-builder type stuff for this kind of thing. Being able to express your template with code seems better imo.

Super clean, bookmarked for future use, thanks for sharing!

Many thanks!

Just in time when I need this feature for my project. Do you have any plan to monetise it near future?

Awesome! No concrete plans yet, free to use for now :) probably introduce some pricing for higher volumes.