[fn-mote]

Notice the IMO poor behavior of the author on the previous thread. [1] Search for 'philjohnson'. This post removes the contentious word "free" but still does not convey that no sign-up is required but you are apparently limited to 3 files without signup. Reading the previous thread was a turn-off enough for me to warn you.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47555636

[philjohnson]

Free is still in this post. It's free to use, you can use the editor as much as you want with 40+ tools. Just a limit of 3 exports.

[gwerbret]

You've had enough arguments with people in both this thread and the previous that I'm pretty sure you understand what the issue is with your use of the word "free".

What you are offering is NOT a free tool -- it is a demo, for a tool for which you are charging $12/month. No reasonable person would interpret a grand total of 3 exports as enough to justify calling this a "free" tool.

This is to say nothing of your violation of AGPL on the use of MuPDF, which has been pointed out here and elsewhere.

But of course, you're free to Show HN a paid product; just kindly don't insult our collective intelligences in the process.

[bavell]

> What you are offering is NOT a free tool -- it is a demo, for a tool for which you are charging $12/month

Commonly known as a "free trial"

[philjohnson]

Nope. 3 free per month. You'd know that if you tried it. Commonly known as a "free plan"

[tomalbrc]

- BentoPDF (12.3k stars): https://github.com/alam00000/bentopdf - PDFCraft (3.6k stars): https://github.com/PDFCraftTool/pdfcraft - PDFLince (31 stars): https://github.com/GSiesto/pdflince

[i000]

Imagine a pizza place that allows you to pick from 40+ toppings but you can only order a margherita ;) /s

[philjohnson]

Bad analogy

Imagine a pizza place where you can try three slices for free before you order one?

Or that you can make a pizza at the shop, add and remove topping as you wish until you're satisfied?

[atoav]

Also a bad analogy. A slize of pizza has no onboarding cost for the user. You eat it and that is it. A PDF editor requires you to understand how to use it.

A better comparison would be a pizza shop at the end of a long hike that advertised itself online to offer infinite amount of free pizza. So you go on the hike and then it turns out you only get one slice and have to pay a fortune for the rest. You planned to get free food st the end of the hike, but it turns out the food you eventually will have to eat is not free and not even cheap.

This is not free, it is s free trial.