If you’ve ever shipped PDF generation, you already know the pain:
<ul>
<li>Puppeteer eating 200MB+ RAM per request</li>
<li>pdfkit / wkhtmltopdf breaking on Flexbox / Grid</li>
<li>Random layout shifts between pages</li>
<li>Re-deploying because someone wants to move a logo 5px</li>
</ul>
PDFs aren’t painful. 
Keeping them stable in production is.
To remove the two worst parts of PDF generation, I built Hundred Docs:
1. Layout problems solved 
Non-technical people design document templates visually 
(or describe them → AI builds the first version).
2. Infrastructure problems solved 
Developers just send JSON to an API and get a production-ready PDF back. 
Forget about heavy binaries and memory leaks.
<pre><code class="language-json">POST /generate
{
 &quot;template&quot;: &quot;invoice_v3&quot;,
 &quot;data&quot;: {
 &quot;customer&quot;: &quot;ACME Inc&quot;,
 &quot;items&quot;: [...],
 &quot;total&quot;: 1240.50
 }
}
</code></pre>
That’s it.
The best part is the template system.
Templates can be edited visually from the UI, in a fully graphical way (so you don’t have to fight with CSS again).
<img src="https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--23qThjFy--/f_auto/v1767004977/ugc/content_862a2985-889a-4d50-bb3a-11aa3d7acfb3?_a=BAMAK+ZW0" alt="2">
New users get 1,000 free PDF generations every month, permanently. 
No credit card. Enough for most side projects and MVPs. 
Paid plans will exist for higher usage.
The goal is to help as many devs as possible without friction.
If you’ve fought PDFs before:
<ul>
<li>give it a try</li>
<li>tell me what sucks</li>
<li>or help spread the word</li>
</ul>
Happy to answer technical questions or edge cases in the comments.
🔗 <a href="https://hundredocs.com?ref=dailydev" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">hundredocs.com</a>
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Carlos González

PDF generation in production often involves memory-intensive tools like Puppeteer, layout inconsistencies, and deployment overhead for minor changes. Hundred Docs offers an alternative approach: a visual template editor for non-technical users and a JSON-based API for developers that handles PDF generation as a service. The platform includes 1,000 free monthly PDF generations and aims to eliminate infrastructure maintenance and CSS layout struggles.

Stop maintaining PDF infrastructure. Just send JSON.

I love this, PDFs have been a struggle :)

I love the idea, i’ll test and give feedback.