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by greenmango 1704 days ago
Hi all,

I'm the creator of Hybiscus and I'm really excited to share this service with you! It's an API for creating beautiful looking PDF reports using a very simple JSON schema. We were just featured on Product Hunt yesterday and become the #1 Product of the Day!

I think Hybiscus can be great for people like data scientists / analysts who need to automate building PDF reports but also need a way for making them look impressive. The current tools out for making PDFs are quite bulky e.g. LaTeX and even still require some good design skills to make something impressive. With Hybiscus, you get a selection of pre-designed components, themes and fonts to choose from, and within minutes have a professional looking PDF to impress people with.

I'm keen to hear everyone's feedback on how they may want to use it in their workflow for various purposes, as the next goal is to increase the number of components available to suit various needs! Hope you all like it!