knkella

Recently we launched a PDF generation service on cloud by the name of Pagify http://pagify.io for developers. Our main assumptions were:

1) It is tedious to code the layout and design of the PDF using code libraries such as FPDF, Prawn etc.

2) When it came to generating large no of PDFs it is difficult to scale.

3) Developer wants to focus on the core offering of their web product rather that spending their time on stuff like PDF generation, email, image processing, payments etc.

4) In cloud development model off-the-shelf components are preferred in the form of cloud services or cloud API over code packages or software. So PDF generation offered as a service instead of code library is better.

Targeting these assumptions Pagify offers a designer within the browser where users can design their PDF template and use an API to generate PDFs.

But after launching on HN and betalist we received mixed feedback on Pagify. Do you think our assumptions are correct? And does Pagify solve this problem?

Thanks, Kush.