Hopefully this can help people reduce filament usage and waste, speed up print times, and improve print quality.

You also have to try to account for every little possible failure mode before launching which is why rockets seldom succeed on the first attempt.

And then dealing with authorities to create new launch sites and permits which probably hasn’t been done in decades in Canada.

its tempting to implement but also comes with more complexities, which Im at this stage not that exited to hop on. I'm thinking of:

- need for a backend with login/authentication -> kills the endless scalability aspect of only having a frontend.

- there are soo many competing tools already existing. Im not sure what my moat would be.

- For me, as a freelancer with max 1 assigments per month so far, a standalone pdf-maker like this one is preferred over being locked in to a Saas product.

- in that case I would want support for e-invoices which seems a bit bureaucratic to get in place

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- Automatic time reporting, very useful for consulting

- One page - very straightforward

- Ad-free

- No sign-up

- Upload existing invoices to auto-advance dates, invoice numbers, and time reporting

- Real-time preview as you edit

- Your data stays in the browser (no backend, except openstreetmap autocomplete)

- 5 different invoice types: regular, receipt, pro forma, quote, credit

- 5 different templates

- Supports complex VAT and discount scenarios

- 10 languages supported

I plan to keep it free of charge!

happy to hear feedback or feature requests

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One alternative to bans could perhaps be if the EU created an IdP or something similar, with a fee for each authentication request, and then forced all commercial services within Europe to use it. I’m not sure if the fee should go back to the user or be paid as tax to the government, but either way, it would change the incentives around connecting traffic to you and making profit from it by harvesting data or steering recommendation engines.

Because I do think there’s nothing wrong with the government doing this, just like in the physical world.

And in some cases, we might prefer cheap authentications… like when posting comments, to avoid trolling/manipulation/bullying. Perhaps when doing “writes” on the internet, if there’s a robust way to identify that type of traffic.

One thing that always bothered me is that most people with 3d printers seem to design things on their own from scratch and rarely take on others designs, improve them and share them. There is little collaboration going on for 3d prints in comparison to software. Except from maybe ~10 widely successful projects that now have healthy communities improving them.

Why is GitHub and similar sites not used more among makers?

I think there’s a missed opportunity for media to make it explicit that by giving their time and attention to these platforms, people are directly generating profit. Way too many assume their involvement has no real effect, but it does. I suspect people would be far less willing to log in if it were clear that each session generates, on average, X dollars in revenue. It’s a business model most people still haven’t fully digested.

If people stopped spending hours each day scrolling through Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook feeds, media incentives would change. Journalism would become more thorough and responsible, rather than optimized for outrage and clicks. People’s attention spans would recover, making them more capable of listening to opposing views and engaging in meaningful discussion. The overall quality of public debate would improve, and political leaders would be chosen based on objective, long-term policies rather than emotional manipulation.

The reinforcement-learning algorithms that drive these feeds are fundamentally unnatural. They represent a massive, uncontrolled social experiment on humanity—one that is far too powerful for our psychological reward systems to handle.

What needs to happen is education. Education on how the attention economy works. People must learn to resist becoming social media junkies, because every hour surrendered to these platforms reinforces the very systems that distort public discourse. When we lose control over our attention, we don’t just harm ourselves—we actively worsen the societal conditions that enable manipulation, polarization, and poor political leadership.

For example, creators behind libraries like Tailwind could sell Claude skills or MCP server solutions.

If I could pay $20 to make my AI agents significantly better at writing state-of-the-art Tailwind code — while knowing that my purchase directly supports the Tailwind community and its long-term sustainability — I would happily do so.

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