First landing page for a PDF API SaaS. Feedback?
Finally, I had some time to finish the first version of a landing page for my side-hustle. At least the first version I'd call complete.
It's for a SaaS allowing you to generate PDFs from any data layer.
Open for feedback and suggestions, about the page and the copy. Also your opinions about the product itself would be so helpful.
Thank you!
Hi @kriswep,
It's great to generate a PDF through an API, I would be keen to know how you can generate a PDF with images and styling ?
We would like to implement it on our app, CurieDoc.com for a treatment plan (with images and custom styling).
Regarding the landing page:
Thanks for the feedback.
There will be some global styling options (think brand color or the like). Also they are components with different styling options. One example would be a table or a card component. You'd provide the adjustment via API parameters.
Images will probably be passed as plain links and added in the pdf.
Straight to the point, easy to read, works well on mobile.
For the tech, I'm assuming that you've built this using serverless, GhostScript/ImageMagick for the Data to PDF ? There's so many freeish ways to do this already, most dev teams know how, the biggest problem with this market is security, which falls 100% on your side of the responsibility model, so I hope you're using a good WAF and thoroughly and continually do vulnerability scanning of your code and APIs.
I mentioned security because you talk a lot about handling customer data on your page but not about privacy or data protection which are enormous topics the past few years
A lot of points to consider here.
Yes, most teams would be able to build their own PDF rendering engine. But many would (or should) prefer to spend their time on their core product. The same is true for other SaaS services as well.
Security is always a concern. I‘d contact with a lawyer when it‘s time to launch. What i know now, is that I mostly only process the data, not store it somewhere ( at least not for long). I‘m still way pre launch, so a lot of things have to be figured out.
Thanks for your feedback.
It seems like a promising service, congrats on launching @kriswep
Quick questions:
I'm also revamping my site, would be awesome to hear your ideas too :)
All the best!
Great question.
GraphQL is an API specification originating at Facebook. One of it‘s benefits are strictly typed fields. This will make it easy for developers to explore their options when creating PDFs with GraPDF.
I‘m planning to integrate the Demo to the main page soonish. So that‘ll change.
Didn‘t really launch yet, am more in the PoC/ validation phase.
I like it! Sleek design and easy to understand.
Out of curiosity, what're some use-cases you have in mind?
If it's cool with you, I'd like to share it on the Twitter account for my new project (spireui.com). Do you have a Twitter handle I can tag?
One of the main use cases would be teams tasked with generating PDFs from their datasets. Something like reports, invoices etc.
Of course you could generate pretty much and PDF, so there are a lot of possible use cases.
Fell free to mention me with my personal Twitter handle kriswep. Don‘t have a dedicated handle yet.
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Good idea integrating the demo on the main page.
Will do in one of the next iterations. Thanks.