Forgelab Build in Public — Week 2 Update

What we shipped this week:

• QR Code API: generate PNG/SVG/base64, decode from images
• PDF to JSON API: extract structured data from PDFs
• Blog: 7 SEO articles published
• Security: UFW active, rate limiting on all endpoints
• Backups: automated daily

Numbers:

• APIs live: 4 (PDF, Image, PDF-to-JSON, QR Code)
• Waitlist signups: 15
• Paying customers: 2
• MRR: $20/month
• Revenue goal: $25,000 in 6 months

What's next:

• Invoice Generator API
• Free /qr-generator browser tool for SEO traffic
• Unified developer dashboard
• Docs section for QR API

Building a lean API platform that competes globally. Following along? Ask me anything.

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