Serverless Invoices
Free, serverless invoice generator - open sourced
We got top 3 in Product Hunt!
Key Takeaways:
- Push your product above the fold no matter what (first 13). This is where you get most of organic views from Product Hunt. We promoted on all possible channels. We posted on all chat channels that were remotely connected to the technologies we used.
- Share when it's live only. People cannot upvote it before.
- Follow up about your victory in each channel. You'll get a second round of interest!
- Post exactly at 12:01 am PST. That's when a new round opens
- Keep responding to comments and stay engaged. People might not upvote right away. Creating conversation might convince people to put their upvote and share it further.
- Have a video or gif for the banner! A video engages so much more. And gifs start playing automatically!
During a 12 hour hackathon we abstracted the full invoicing capability from our SaaS service and open-sourced it. As a result you have a full invoicing solution running on the power of your browser only.
Serverless Invoices is an experiment at easily modifiable, transparent software.
For cars there is the Right to Repair act and we believe for software there should be the Right to Modify act.
That's why we built Serverless invoices with the easiest web development tools that we know (vue.js, bootstrap), stripped the back-end and made it open-source.
Check out the project on github: https://github.com/mokuappio/serverless-invoices
There are two things that brought me and a lot of other makers to the Internet: The low entry barrier and the possibility to create and modify the web.
As builders we strive to create something that is useful and brings real value. Usually software requires user accounts, hosting, subscriptions etc. We wanted to create something that is extremely simple, but still packs powerful features.
We we're in the process of building our SaaS platform and realized there is an invoicing solution that could be abstracted and it could work independently in the browser without any back-end dependencies.
So we scheduled a hackaton :)
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