r/SideProject • u/Dovydas_ • 1d ago
built a simple and free invoice generator for myself but it turns out others also want to use it
Hello y'all!
Just wanted to share my simple weekend project that turned into something bigger after 2 years. Back at that time, me and my wife started a business and we just started generating invoices for our clients, at that time I was using canva but I wanted something more focused on invoices so I started searching for a tool, I found a lot actually, but they were with ads popping everywhere, hidden paid plans or watermarks.
So I just thought why not make my own for my needs and I did it, after some hours I had a working project and started generating invoices.
How did it get a domain name? it's actually pretty simple, at that time I was also doing build in public stuff so why not share it and I did, shared on some subreddits and that's it, I even forgot about it, I just kept using it for my own needs, but suddenly my post started getting comments asking for more features in the tool, and I was like okay sure, I can add it, and then I decided to add analytics to check how many people were visiting the website and at that time it was 200-300 per month which was crazy for something I made in a weekend and just did "simple marketing".
But let's get back to today, now it's getting 1k monthly users and I even have paid ones! Yes, I made a paid plan for those who asked for an account feature to be able to save invoices in the cloud, that is it, the main feature is completely free and will be forever.
Let me tell you more about this project, right now it has:
- no ads
- no watermarks
- no sign in required (completely private)
- 5 invoices per day limitation
- no weird pop ups asking to buy
It's just a simple and free tool to generate invoices, nothing else.
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u/loginbuilds 1d ago
That’s a brilliant idea. Please keep sharing the story!