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Open Source Document Sharing platform built developer-friendly: launches, updates, stats

What you will find in this article?

  1. Intro
  2. Hacker News launch
  3. How Papermark was built?
  4. Stats and progress for last months
  5. What is the future?

Intro

Couple months ago I started building Papermark as an Open Source Alternative to DocSend.

For the last 2 months we got users and customers and a lot of feedback.

We noticed a huge pull from founders and investors, who sending Pitch Decks.

Today we try to discover Papermark to become developer-friendly.

Papermark on Hacker News

So I launched on Hacker News to better understand how to make it more developer friendly.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/show

I would be absolutely thrilled if you could support us our launch today! Don't forget to share your thoughts in the comments section ❀️

Why I started read the story here on Hacker news
https://news.ycombinator.com/show

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How it started and was built?

It started as a tweet. And I got pretty excited about it and with enormous support of Open Source community I just continued building.

Building the product
I spent the next couple of weekends to build more features and polish the UI.

And I took the time to document how I built it open-source out in the public!

Post #1
πŸ‘‰ Building an Open Source DocSend alternative with Next.js, Vercel Blob and Postgres

Post #2
πŸ‘‰ Building a Beautiful Product Onboarding πŸ‘‹ with Next.JS , Framer Motion, and Tailwind CSS

Post #3
πŸ‘‰ How to send a warm welcome email with Resend, Next-Auth and React-Email

Post #4
πŸ‘‰ Building a Real-Time Analytics Dashboard with Next.js, Tinybird, and Tremor: A Comprehensive Guide

Post #5
πŸ‘‰ Building a Document Viewer with react-pdf

Post #6
πŸ‘‰ Build an Expandable / Collapsible Data Table with 2 shadcn/ui Components

Project stats at the moment

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1000+ stars
2000+ users
10+ contributors
15000 monthly views

What is in the future?

A developer-friendly document sharing platform doesn’t exist yet! We believe that document analytics should be available to anyone that is creating and sharing documents.

  • Rich observability: Don’t get left in the dark when sharing a document. Papermark will provide full transparency by exposing all document-related events through webhooks.

  • Fast performance: We are built on top of Vercel to serve your documents fast wherever your recipients are located and watching the engagement data arrive in real-time with Clickhouse under the hood.

  • Developer-friendly: We will be expanding the platform with a clean REST API, so you can create, share, connect and expand documents that you are sending both externally and internally.

Check our story on Hacker News and leave your thoughts on how to make it more user friendly
https://news.ycombinator.com/show

Top comments (4)

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Reinhart Previano K.

Hi, just a simple question: how long does it take for a Hacker News account to be able to submit new websites?

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Marc Seitz

Good question. I've had an account for a long time, so unfortunately don't know the exact answer. I found this from a while ago: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10146373

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Iuliia Shnai

Further is just more, bring more innovation for the product based on user needs.

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Marc Seitz

Thanks Iuliia! We always try to innovate on product according to user feedback