DEV Community

Samarth
Samarth

Posted on

I built a free PDF toolkit for internet cafés — need honest feedback

Internet cafés handle a surprising amount of PDF work every day — merging documents, splitting files, converting formats, etc.

Most tools out there are either:

Paid
Too complex
Or not optimized for quick daily use

So I built a simple tool to solve this:
👉 https://pro-pdf-toolkit.onrender.com/

What it does:

Merge PDFs
Split PDFs
Convert files
Basic PDF utilities

Goal:
Keep it fast, simple, and actually useful for real café workflows.

I’m not here to promote it — I genuinely want feedback from people who might use something like this.

If you get a chance to try it, I’d love to know:

Does it actually help in real usage?
What feels missing or slow?
What would make it 10x better?

Your input will directly influence what I build next 🚀

Top comments (1)

Collapse
 
fyodorio profile image
Fyodor

Such tools always raise security concerns, especially these days. You should be explicit about what user data you gather (if any), what is your safety standards compliance (official or not) — that's especially important for free tools as they often earn their dough by selling or abusing user data. Honestly, I don't trust my docs to online tools these days, but it's just me. If you can make it more trustworthy somehow (make it work offline, or locally, or make it self hosted) it'd be a benefit for users. On the other hand, what would be there for you in this case (except for pure personal promo/portfolio)?! 😅

Anyway, that's some real thoughts, the UI looks nice 👍🏼