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Nice work. I liked the instant pdf viewer. Kudos for your efforts.

Only thing I would suggest is, to support different tax formats (or provide an ability to fill custom tax format name that applies to the whole invoice). Right now, it is largely VAT. In some countries, it may not be relevant.

(Having said that, as a work around, currently anyone can use Notes field to fill custom tax details and hide all VAT related fields.)

I'm at a point where I need to gather feedback from real users. At the moment it's completely free, but if it gains traction and higher traffic sites use it, I will have to add paid plans to make it sustainable

You can check out bannerbear (and bunch of others) who are already in this space. There is a clear need here. Wish you Good luck for your first SAAS journey.

Congratz on the launch.

I have some questions

1. If a startup is not incorporated, can we still use Razorpay ? I guess instamojo allows it

2. If I have a static site, can I still use Razorpay for payments ?

3. What is the turnaround time for depositing the money into sellers bank account ? What is the frequency ?

4. Do you provide some webhooks functionality ?

Let me add my understanding. Please correct me if it is wrong.

Actual user case if everything is in place:

1. you are in a website using browserid protocol/persona (eg. http://crossword.thetimes.co.uk/)

2.hit the login link. Give your email address (superuser123@gmail.com or superuser123@yahoo.com)

3.it prompts for your password - gmail password or yahoo password

4.post authentication it takes you to the website with user session as superuser123@gmail.com/superuser123@yahoo.com - eg crossword.thetimes.co.uk

5.In a nutshell, end user doesn't need to create a new userid & password for using the website, as long as he knows his emailuserd/emailpassword

Present use case - since few things are missing

1. you are in a website using browserid protocol/persona (eg. http://crossword.thetimes.co.uk/)

2.hit the login link. since gmail & yahoo as email providers not implemented browserid/persona protocol, you will asked to create an account in persona.org with any of your existing email address.(gmail / yahoo).

persona.org will send you a verification link to check if you really own your email address. Click on the verification link and you are verified to use persona.org account in all the places where browserid is supported

3.in the login page - it prompts for a new password if you are a new user or existing password if you are a returning user - this is the password for the email address used in persona.org registration.

4.post authentication it takes you to the website with user session as superuser123@gmail.com/superuser123@yahoo.com - eg crossword.thetimes.co.uk

5.In a nutshell, two things will change in future - no login window from persona.org & no need to create account in persona.org

I like to use this for my redis setup...what about the data backups for the persistent data..do you manage that?..If yes..what is the frequency ? I think you should provide more data for database services..especially for redis about the memory, disk space & connections. I like to move from redistogo if comparable metrics are provided.

FWIW, I like to know whether you tried marketing this in an offline way to increase the community.

Did you try going to startup events and provide an access for the event members to create a niche community for them?

Though the concept is good, I feel you should reach to the audience when the merits are not clear over HN.

Since you are based in India, I feel you may go to the weekend startup meets and toss up this idea.

My 5 paise...

Thnx for your points. my worry was "I shouldn't end up in a place where I worry that the very idea which was the starting point for moving from a well paid job is not getting realized". This was heard from my friend very recently and so he was demotivated for a while to pursue it further before pivoting. I want to clarify if that is the norm or it is the persistence in an idea against the odds does it.