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Show HN: Launching my side project – Build and send invoices with ease

by JohnDotAwesome on 11/13/19, 6:00 PM with 5 comments

• by JohnDotAwesome on 11/13/19, 6:00 PM

  I've been building this product for a while. Even though there aren't any loading indicators, I think it's still good enough to get out there!

  I've used this project as a test bed for learning new technologies. And what did I learn? That using Docker and Kubernetes effectively is harder than I thought it would be.

  Some maybe interesting things about the technology used:

    * It's almost 100% TypeScript
    * What's not TypeScript is plpgsql
    * Postgres
    * Nodejs
    * Docker
    * Deployed to a Kubernetes cluster
    * React on the frontend
    * React also renders HTML on the backend (for the PDF generation and emails too)

• by pfraze on 11/13/19, 6:09 PM

  I'm a personal friend of John's, so I'll just +1 this project. It's a pretty solid and simple invoicing tool. Quick form to produce the invoice from a template, sends the email with a pdf version attached, and then gives you a tool to track sent-invoices states. He's been doing contract work a while so he's hit all the features you'd want from this.

  If you're doing contract work, I'd suggest giving it a shot. Invoices are always a PITA so this is handy. Congrats on the release John