I like it. Dead simple. Makes nice output. The UI is correct. I would use.
Feedback:
Consider replacing "We take privacy seriously" with "I take privacy seriously".
Better yet, consider removing that sentence so you don't make people second guess it. It's even easier then because there's less information that needs mental processing. You might just say, "Once you generate your memo, your information is deleted forever" or you might not say anything at all.
Nice work! Would you be interested in sharing anything interesting you used or learned while making this?
These are the kinds of posts that made me fall in love with HN over 2535 day ago.
This is really great! Thanks for sharing.
Here are some comments: * Make a title of your webpage using <title> tag in <head> * I was not sure the "organization" was meant to be a input field. Please make it more obvious.
It's great! The first web app I made printed "hello, world" in HTML :-). One thing I would recommend is releasing some part of your code so that people can give feedback on that as well.
Keep it up!
Not really "Show HN" stuff. Poster did not code it, mercenary programming shop did.
Seems nice and simple, good job! Some comments/suggestions:
* There seems to be no <title> tag on the page, or at least I don't see a title for the page.
* When the browser downloads the output, it is served to it as a "binary file" (Firefox on Mac), not PDF, meaning I have no other option than to download it. I think (though I'm not sure) that if you set the content type correctly it could open straight in a new tab, or at least let me open it straight in a PDF viewer.
* The paper format looks a bit off to me, I guess it's because it's letter? In that case, not everyone uses that (we use A4), though lettings users set it would increase UI complexity.
++kudos for that. Simple, yet effective. Does one thing, but does it well. I was impressed that when I didn't fill in the "Organization" field, it left it out of the PDF completely. I sort of had the expectation that it would create an empty box in the PDF. But it didn't, that shows that you thought about it.
Any chance you can share some information on what you used to build this?
One piece of feedback though: The "contact" placeholder didn't seem like a text field to me. It took me a while to figure that it's editable. The same goes for the "Organization" placeholder.
Looks great, works great. I'd recommend setting up a free TLS certificate from LetsEncrypt
I really like the fact that something this simple can make the top of the HN's front page. It makes this site feel really beginner-friendly and encouraging. A great contrast with many other websites where programmers exercise in putting down other's work to boost their own ego.
And while I don't have any use for this app, I have to admit that it looks awesome and simple. Good job.
Thank you all for such great feedback, encouragement. I am adopting a lot of your suggestions. Please, keep them coming.
Looks beautiful, dude. I love your typography. Very similar design in terms of simplicity to something I'm working on. So maybe I'm just patting myself on the back, but I dig it. Great job!
so umm if the poster didn't do it...why is this here?
I'm not saying it should not be here...just asking what exactly the "show HN" in about. If it's about showing of the skills of codegophers...should they have not worked on something more complex?
just confused.
Congrats! Always great to see first time apps. Keep on learning and building, and always share what you make with this and other communities. :)
Cool. For even more privacy, you could generate the PDF client-side.
I couldn't tell if it was an "office space" joke or not, and didn't want to put my e-mail address in just to find out.
I just recently used Prawn to make a PDF receipt generator in Rails for work.
It's surprisingly fun when you get into it, and Prawn is very powerful.
I've been thinking of making a Resume generator using Prawn in my spare time, but I haven't really found the time.
Two things stood out right away (on Firefox 42) and point 2 particularly dissuaded me from checking it out any further. 1. It doesn't check for empty content and produces a pdf with just 'memo' and horizontal line. 2. Can't paste, ctrl+v won't work and there is no paste in context menu.
Very nice!
A few questions:
- Where are you hosting this site?
- What is your tech stack?
- Do have any plan to build on this web app?
So cool something like this hits #1 here. What a community!
It's so much easier to open up Ms Word, have a template by your choice, and export as PDF. I don't get it guys. Super nice domain occupied for a trivial thing... edit: Maybe an OK solution if you don't have Ms Word. But, almost all text editors can export as PDF anyway..
Looks neat and clean.
Here's my review -
1. Add -
<meta charset="utf-8">
in the head section of the page.
2. Try to avoid jumping from h1 directly to h3. Heading progression should be from h1 to h2 to h3 and so on.
3. Towards the end I see you've added some <br> tags to space out content. I'd use CSS margin top and bottom to do that.
Very cool. Pretty much flawless on iOS (8.3) right down to just opening the pdf in iBooks. Loads fast enough that I can grab it between stops on the metro.
Is the date going to pre-fill with the current date in future revisions? On my red. It was 06/15/2016 I think.
Very nice. Two features you could add is - more templates and - using local storage to cache what's been typed and remember the fields contents.
Agree with the others, you probably want to mention what you're saving on the server and a privacy statement.
"We take privacy seriously"
With an unencrypted service, without any way for others to audit your code, without even basic contact info and with a misleading company name...
Who are you kidding? Is that some sort of social science experiment?
Would you publish the code too? Congrats!
Hi,nice work! found a bug only worked for me when filled all the fields. Internal Server Error when i left "cc" field empty. Keep up the good work.
I tried copying some text from a URL (copy/paste the content of that page) into the memo box and hit the create button: Internal Server Error
Here's the URL I used. Hope this helps.
http://www.thedrive.com/tech/5246/how-george-hotzs-999-auton...
Preview.app says "PDF Producer: Qt 4.8.6" and "Content creator: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.2.1". Is that intentional?
So now we know all about the development of this idea, but what is the genesis behind this probolsky? Why did you want it built? If it was to truly learn "development," then I suspect you would have done it yourself. Scratch your own itch? Expand it into a business offering? Where does it go from here?
'Pretigious Technologies'
typo?
Minor bug: If I hit "Create a PDF" without entering any data I get an internal server error page.
Might default the date to current date.
I played with the editor and a js plugin to create pdf a little bit:
Maybe your server is overloaded or having some other issues - but didn't work at all for me on Android+Chrome. Tried multiple times.
Also tried in Desktop Mode, and received a server error.
Still interested in trying it out, will wait for a bit.
Frequently fails with Internal Server Error. And please, add HTTPS: https://letsencrypt.org/
If we can comment on functionality too (not just UI and design), I would say at least add an option to your text editor to do left/right alignment to support RTL languages.
This is great, and you're receiving well-deserved attention. I have to ask, did you mean to call yourself "pretigioustech" or was that an accidental misspelling?
I am probably missing something in the mobile view. What makes this page easier than creating this in any product from Libreoffice to Word and exporting to pdf?
I think you need some sort of input validation on the length/size of the text. Is the application just throwing everything away if it's too large?
Internal Server Error
Should it perhaps be Prestigious Technologies? And I suggest that you tint your placeholder-text a bit, so it doesn't look like the actual input.
Might want to fix typo: © Pretigious Technologies
I see simplicity i upvote. Another good example is https://www.resyum.com
I tried to use it on Opera Mini native on Android. Download dialog is shown but it never starts transferring data. No error message shown.
That's great. It's very simple and I like it.
Feedback: I think you're missing your web app title. It only shows your default URI.
Good job for shipping. I'd love to use it, but the page said internal server error when I clicked on the button.
Entering a non-American date format, or leaving the date blank, gives an internal server error.
Nice project, well done!
Special characters such as čšž are not rendered correctly in the bottom Contact information field.
Someone may have misspelled "prestigious" at the bottom.
Good job! Very nice for a first web app.
Content doesn't fit on an iPad
great stuff man! congrats! good idea too
Pretigious?
Wtf. 1st in the HN? Is this a joke I don't get?
That simplicity is awesome!
Congrats on the launch! Looks pretty neat.
Minor suggestion: At first, I didn't realize that the organization box was editable. I thought it was some kind of a logo. Maybe you can try changing it to a regular text box like "To:" or "From:".
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I liked it as well, but from his tweet (https://twitter.com/AdamProbolsky/status/793357675996196864) seems he didnt make it!