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Put that in AWS Lambda and charge $1 each. Boom, Saas-retirement-fund.
by astockwell 9y ago
Put that in AWS Lambda and charge $1 each. Boom, Saas-retirement-fund.
- untog 9y ago$1 is going to struggle to beat free: https://online2pdf.com/remove-pdf-restrictions https://online2pdf.com/remove-pdf-restrictions
- diggan 9y agoJust make the UX really great. And be sure to have a really complicated-but-looking-nice UI for downgrading, and people will blog about it.
- jermaustin1 9y agoI always find it hard to trust free. Even with T&Cs/ToS/Privacy, if I'm not paying for it, I feel that its all lies. Combine that with a site that looks like that, and I'm assuming my PDF will have a virus attached to it.
- untog 9y agoSure, but you're thinking about that kind of stuff even slightly, you're not going to be uploading your documents anywhere. I suspect the Venn diagram overlap between "thinks about online security" and "uploads documents to random web sites, even if they cost money" is small.
- piracykills 9y agoIf it's anything I need to care about privacy with, I'm not uploading it to someone else's server even if I pay for it, I'm doing it locally. But if it's say, as a friend recently experienced, a handout from a teacher in Corel Draw format, you bet your ass I'm uploading it to whatever the top google result for "convert corel draw to pdf online" is.
- thephyber 9y agoI don't pay anything to use HackerNews. How much do you pay?
- uptown 9y agoIf time is still money ... way too much!
- jermaustin1 9y agoThat is a completely different beast. I was talking specifically about uploading and downloading files I intend to open.
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- zmk_ 9y agoOpen in Chrome and print the PDF as PDF; also removes any editing restrictions while maintaining ability to select text.