Hello HN,<p>I’m Jan, creator of DocTemple.<p>The idea came from doing much more advanced version for one of my customers where he needed a tool to fill repetitive templates with data from the database. Employee enters database id and based on the data it filled it accordingly (with loops and conditional statements within document).<p>After working on it I was like „Wait a minute, there has to be more companies that are underserved in that specific area of filling templates manually.” So I created a completely new app based on the same idea - to let people fill thousands of templates in minutes instead of hours. And to let them do it in simple fashion. I truly hope I achieved that.<p>After long 6 months of developing my own product (there where months that I had only 2 days to work on it because day job and life + never implemented payments before) and making sure everything works as I wanted I can finally say it’s ready to show it to the world.<p>For sure the biggest challenge here will be to find the companies that actually need it.<p>I hope you will like this little tool! If anything you can reach me out here and on the chat on the site as well.<p>Thanks and looking forward to your thoughts and feedback!
Nice work!<p>I believe you should make the video visible, many people prefer a short intro, and the link isn't that large. Also, I'm not sure whether you intended to have it play the music or that was what you were listening to while recording the screen cast, it was a bit confusing to me.<p>It's similar to Word's serial letters, only that it produces individual files, right? Maybe you can put that into simple sentence and why it's better than using serial letters. How does it prevent (common) errors? A short "don't you hate it when ... happens? We've got you covered by doing ...." or something similar will make it easier for people to understand the value, as if you're telling a co-worker about this new cool thing that solves/improves something you've both been working with.<p>Since data will be uploaded (which likely will include PII), especially in a corporate context, you might want to put more emphasis on being GDPR compliant, and offer an automated way to sign a data processing agreement so users can stay compliant as well.<p>It made me remember the first time I used the serial letter system to print a mailing and I somehow managed to edit some fields and turn them into text, so I ended up with "Dear {firstname} {lastname}", but only noticed it when I picked up the 500 pages from the printing shop.