Show HN: Independent contractor with N clients invoice pdf creation tool

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3 years ago

Well it's strange what you discover when trying to code what you thought would be "simple." Hello HN, I want to show my new creation called "settle-down". It's a simple independent contractor with N clients invoice pdf creation tool.

I started down the PDF creation side using a PDF library with direct drawString, drawLine, etc. functions. But the complexities of using this library made me search github and I found:

https://github.com/TheFpiasta/BuisnessPDF

It's a very nice pdf invoice generation tool! But it just so happened to be in German and for German addresses and currency etc.

I forked it: https://github.com/andrewarrow/BuisnessPDF

And slowly but surely I found where I needed to add Address format changes and $ money symbol changes, etc. So without further ado I give you a free SaaS version available here:

https://many.pw/sd

Video demo here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwtd9uLnh3M

And it's all open source if you don't want to use the SaaS version:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/settle-down