Dan Molitor

Built a PDF generation engine in Rust that compiles to WASM - runs in Node, Cloudflare Workers, the browser, anywhere JS runs. No Chrome, no cold starts. 193 upvotes, 79k views, 248 shares on Reddit. Pretty cool. formepdf.com

Fun update for Forme. Built a VS Code extension - live PDF preview, component tree, inspector panel. Edit your template and watch the PDF update in real time. #opensource #buildinpublic #react marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName…

@noahkagan Forme. PDF generation for developers. Page breaks that actually work, 28ms renders, no headless Chrome. formepdf.com

You build it. I promote it. Building has never been easier. Getting customers has never been harder. So I’m picking 2 products to promote to our 1,000,000+ entrepreneurs for our 16-year anniversary next Tuesday. Drop your product below. Don’t have one? Build it this weekend and come back.

@atmoio The startup I've worked for the last five years folded recently, and the last couple weeks as I've been getting going into the job search, I've felt the same. This must be how blue collar workers in decades past felt when they first saw jobs getting automated.

I was a 10x engineer. Now I'm useless.

@weswinder @vqt123 Wails is pretty nice too, if you like golang.

@vqt123 idk yet tauri seems solid, but lots of tradeoffs too

stop building web apps start building desktop apps trust me

@viberankdev Thanks! Appreciate the kind words.

@danmolitor replacing puppeteer with a custom engine is a serious flex. the performance difference is night and day. if you want to get more devs using this, viberank could be a good spot to list it.

I built a PDF engine for React. Write JSX, get PDFs. Page breaks that actually work. Replaced my Puppeteer server: 1018 lines deleted, 39 added. 28ms render time. Open source, MIT licensed. github.com/danmolitor/for… #buildinpublic #opensource #webdev #reactjs