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Show HN: invoiceto.me (Make a free invoice PDF online)

17 pointsby 1asabout 14 years ago
http://invoiceto.me/<p>My weekend project was this edit-in-place style invoice maker, with one button PDF generation and localStorage for everything. Aside from the PDF generator step, everything is jQuery powered and there is effectively no backend. This is (I suppose) an Alpha version, only really tested on webkit (iPad, Safari, &#38; Chrome).<p>Feedback would be great: it's my first foray into web app development and I'm finding it hard to look at the page with fresh eyes—although I have my doubts about its usability in certain areas! All comments are welcome.<p>Part of me is tempted to attempt a platform for edit-in-place documents of this nature, I'd be interested to know if there is a similar approach taken elsewhere.<p>Many thanks, Stephen<p>(Note that this is a sort of follow up to my Ask HN http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2394319. I've taken on board the excellent advice there and have been doing lots of reading and experimenting. Want to get into the habit of shipping things ASAP though, so this is a small first step in that direction; it's also a tool that's handy for me.)

6 comments

iworkforthemabout 14 years ago
I like it!<p>Here's a few suggestions you could think about.<p>- Link the generation of invoices to existing apps/online services. No invoices work alone, probably you need to tap onto existing apps/services to help simplify users's adoption of your app.<p>- Er.. why are you not making $$$ from it? Have a paid and a free options. One way I can think of the paid option is to allow users to save generated invoices.
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_shabout 14 years ago
It's very simple. I like it. Unfortunately, I don't have a use for it.<p>As for in-place editing, Neyric's javascript library has something along these lines.<p><a href="http://neyric.github.com/inputex/" rel="nofollow">http://neyric.github.com/inputex/</a>
Omni5cienceabout 14 years ago
<a href="http://invoiceto.me/" rel="nofollow">http://invoiceto.me/</a> clickable
_ud4aabout 14 years ago
looks good and very helpful.<p>one thing i would add is the ability to add a logo beside the "company name" as a lot of people want their logo on their invoices.<p>other than that, looks pretty good. GJ and nice domain!
eswabout 14 years ago
This is neat. How do you plan to make money on it?
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togasystemsabout 14 years ago
Are you using wkhtmltopdf for the generation?