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Finally shipping an API as my 8th startup at 18 🚀
Here are some of the thoughts I put into it:
Problem
Making PDFs absolutely sucks for devs. You either need to selfhost browsers, or use existing APIs which either look shit, are expensive or both.
Solution
Refile is a dead simple, fairly priced & extensible Markdown to PDF API.
You can sign up and get an API key in 10 seconds with free plan via Google log in.
It's easily self-hostable for enterprise customers & there's a simple API playground with a copy code button. You can literally implement it in 5 minutes with amazing DX.
Docs have guides and premade code for tons of platforms.
Stack (100% scale-to-zero)
- @nextjs + @vercel (site, api, cronjobs, blob storage)
- @neondatabase + @authjs + Google OAuth
- @polar_sh for payments
- Custom-made PDF generation stack
I'm using the least dependencies possible (no external auth, Vercel for everything) and keeping the stack as simple as I can. Everything is scale-to-zero so the project will always make a profit or break even.
TBD
- Marketing (lol)
- SDKs
- Further integrations (no-code, improving DX)
Happy for any feedback!
why is the square kiosk round?
introducing . . . [ SQUARE KIOSK ]
massive display, outrageous industrial design, integrated payments, and a DEEP intelligence layer
truly a beautiful piece of hardware!
of course, something only @Square is capable of
ONWARD -----> so proud of the team for this one
Your entire company will be a Git repo.
Docs? Markdown
Infra? Terraform
Project management? Notion as code
Onboarding? A README
just one folder of standard files you can take anywhere, branch out and roll back atomically
and it's ai-native
Just went through my whole X feed and marked everything politics & food related as "Not interested"
Finally back to an interesting tech feed, this is such a game changer
I pay more VAT than Lovable 😭
If you want to sell a service such as @Lovable globally and want to jump over VAT/tax everywhere is that OK and fair? Togheter with the journalist @emilhellerud we tracked Lovable receipts and found zero tax compliance(EU). Broadcasted on TV4.
I might be stupid about this but why is it recommending oled for a bright room?!
It’s time to question your browser.
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If you're not getting the battery life you want out of your macbook, try switching off Arc. Seriously.
My Mac lasts 2x longer now
I've deployed 19 projects on Vercel for $0
