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Thank you for taking the time. It really helps us define our value proposition and outline the next steps in product development. As you mentioned, the challenge isn't the inability to produce something in-house but rather other product-roadmap priorities. Our goal is to ensure that companies needing to produce many documents —where documents are necessary but not core to their business— can use our solution at a fair price and limiting the pain of creating such solution in house. OnPrem + fixed rate seems to be the best option for high volume. We'll explore this and see what future solutions we can offer to meet these needs!

Street smart! But yes, programmatic merging does get complex, especially with large document sizes. It's a balancing act between functionality and handling those technical challenges!

It seems there isn't a solution that satisfies everyone so far, indeed. With concerns about languages supported, functionalities, security, etc., there's certainly a lot of room for improvement in this space to offer a better solution!

We've updated our pricing, and it can go as low as $0.005 per document. True, you'll still need to work with a third-party vendor, but isn't it worth considering if the features are competitive and the interface is user-friendly? It would be interesting to know what might convince you to switch from Puppeteer to another solution—or if you're completely satisfied and wouldn't switch regardless of the offerings, which is perfectly fine.

We've adjusted our pricing based on your comments and advice. It's not 100% free, but it now seems to make more sense to most of you. What do you think?

We'll adjust the wording until we have a faster renderer. Also, the playground might take a bit longer to render since there's a queue and it's been heavily used! We're on it, thanks!

Got it, thanks!

Thanks! We are looking to extend our set of feature and integration, offering self-storing on S3 could definitely be one of them! Good call

Exactly. We are aiming at offering a solution to build complex PDF design. Which means having 100% control over the layout (margin, header, footer), the style and also the content. That's why we integrated Tailwind, CharkraUI, Markdown, LaTeX, and also wanted to support SVG etc.

certifications (SOC2 / ISO27001) and offer an on-premise solution! I see there's already a discussion about pricing, so I'll leave that be. However, would an unlimited volume at a fixed cost (and self-host) be an attractive solution? It could be interesting for very high volumes.

Sorry for the misunderstanding, we indeed "meant something more like a viewer for Adobe's PDF format rather than Adobe's viewer for PDFs.". We will make sure to change the wording. Thank you!

True. Security is a significant concern, and in our discussions with businesses, we realised that most of them do not want any kind of data leaving their own systems. This is especially true in the biotech/healthcare industry, but also in legal and banking. That's why we're considering an on-premises solution for the future (as we're focusing on B2B). However, I assume most people were talking about personal use cases or non-sensitive documents, hence the fact that no one mentioned SSRF (yet ;)).

Ok very interesting, i'll give it a try! Thanks for sharing

Never used it actually, is it in between LaTeX and Markdown with the possibility to process JSON input?

We do not work with docx and never did it myself but: "DOCX Template API is a tool that allows you to dynamically generate MS Word documents by replacing custom properties using a JSON object that contains your data." I assume this is more or less similar to what you are looking for (?)