[sanusihassan]

I built what I thought was a simple PDF generator: type a prompt, get a file. But users kept asking "can I edit this first?"

Turns out nobody wants a black box that spits out final documents. They want to see what's being generated and have control over it.

So I rebuilt it with a live editor. Now you prompt for content, it generates a draft in real-time, and you can edit directly in a clean word-processor interface before downloading.

The interesting part: the editing layer became more valuable than the generation itself.Users treat it less like "AI that makes PDFs" and more like "AI that gives me a head start on documents I actually want to create."

Demo video: https://x.com/pdfequips/status/1929837723411448068 Live tool: https://www.pdfequips.com/assistant/

What's your experience with AI tools?

Do you prefer instant results or prefer having an editing step in between?