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Show HN: I Built an Invoicing App
It's probably not the most interesting tool out there, but this is my first time shipping a product solo and I'm so proud
- noduerme 2y agoI think that's cool. I built my first time tracking / invoicing site in 2004, that even had punch in/out links you could use from your flip phone. I charged $5/mo. unlimited or $0.10 per custom PDF invoice sent to clients. I think it peaked at around 40 subscribers. Not terrible. I closed it in 2012 but kept using it to bill my own clients until 2017 or so.
- automas_prime 2y ago2004 wow, not terrible indeed. I haven't gotten a subscriber yet, I think I'm going to use it bill my own clients
- noduerme 2y agoOut of curiosity, what do you use to generate PDF invoices? I run into this problem occasionally and I'm still using a really ancient encoder.
- automas_prime 2y agoI tried DOMpdf and it's variations but the problem was that they didn't support modern css, worse Tailwind, I used a laravel lilbrary, spatie/laravel-pdf, it use puppeteer and a chromium instance to take screenshots of a rendered html page