I decided to make a SaaS of a project I built years ago

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8 years ago

A few years ago I was hired as a contractor to build a system for a medium-size corporation here in Brazil. They had dozens of department, with dozens of employees, document types, models etc. Every document were duplicated in many versions and the leaders were not able to track and control the right one.

The solution was to build a system to track all the lifecycle of a document; from the creation to the archiving. In order to create a new document, the user just needed to fill a form with the variables. Then export the final version in PDF or send the link by email.

The users wouldn’t need to send an "open Word file" via email anymore and the leaders would be able to review and approve the right version on the platform. This project became one of the main tools for this company. And I always wanted to build it as a SaaS.

I figured out that this is the right time for me to build it as a side project. The good thing is that I know the short way to build this, since I already did before.

Today I launched the landing page. It's published to ProductHunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/origami-docs

I would love to get your feedbacks. Any insight is appreciated ;)