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by nip 1mo ago
Multiple ways: - Cold outreach (rapidly becoming impossible with the amount of unhinged automation pouring over LinkedIn) - Engaging on the posts with my "takes", not selling anything, just genuinely helping / contributing -
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by nip 1mo ago
For some of us (founders, sales, GTM engineers), LinkedIn is "the place to be" if you want to find and engage with prospects. My customers are in healthcare, and they don't hang out on X for example (which is where I get most
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by nip 1mo ago
Most people randomly accept invitations on LinkedIn: "We're both humans, so I felt we should connect!". But if you actively prune / curate WHO you add to your LinkedIn, you end up with a feed that is genuinely useful. Wh
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by nip 4mo ago
> like that, but (and I might be ignorant) can't you just change it's all in browser to something else and the users would be oblivious? Excellent question! The answer is simple: we're known on the market, and trusted by
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by nip 4mo ago
Thanks! We have plans to improve it further (file support), possibly also voice, but for now in the backlog!
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by nip 4mo ago
And if you’re French, don’t worry, you didn’t miss it. It’s the 31st of May
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by nip 5mo ago
Thanks! You caught a real bug: the form labels fed to the LLM were mangled. Now fixed: values land in the correct field. On "what are we trying to solve": Forms (PDFs, scanned paper) are still everywhere and aren't going away
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by nip 5mo ago
Absolutely not insulting! In fact an excellent question! Preview was an inspiration when I started SimplePDF, my goal was to make the "Preview" of the web, so that people without a Mac would benefit from a software matching Previe
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by nip 5mo ago
It already does! More specifically, SimplePDF supports "WebMCP": the tools that the LLM is using are exposed as WebMCP tools
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by nip 5mo ago
We offer both: - A privacy-focused PDF editor, free for individuals, used by 200k users monthly: https://simplepdf.com/editor - The same editor, embeddable into one’s app for companies, with the same privacy guarantees (eve
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by nip 5mo ago
I was not able to reproduce it, so I made a small video, hopefully I better understand your problem once you've seen it: https://cdn.simplepdf.com/simple-pdf/assets/hn-reply-tyingq.... In the video I let the
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by nip 5mo ago
Have you tried telling the LLM to just skip the field and move to the next one? I tried with various: "Skip it", "None, leave blank", "Skip this field" and all worked for me, but if may very well be missing som
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by nip 5mo ago
Hey Kiney! It supports AcroForms (like in the example) but not XFA. Why are you asking? gov forms support?
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by nip 5mo ago
Thanks! Anything you see missing in Copilot to achieve that? Not sure if you noticed, but there's an arch-diagram in the info popup [1]. [1] https://copilot.simplepdf.com/?share=a7d00ad073c75a75d493228...
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by nip 5mo ago
I tried to make it clear with the popup message that appears when you start chatting: "Public demo. Use sample data only. Messages are processed by the selected AI provider." But you're right that it's not as evident as
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by nip 5mo ago
Just to be clear, this is a technical demo showing what's possible with client-side tool calling + local models: LLM-assisted form filling where no document data has to leave the user's machine. Use cases range from: - Filling for
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Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling(copilot.simplepdf.com)
60 points by nip 5mo ago|29 comments
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by nip 5mo ago
Just to be clear, this is a technical demo showing what's possible with client-side tool calling + local models: LLM-assisted form filling where no document data has to leave the user's machine. Use cases range from: - Filling for
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Show HN: Filling PDF forms with AI using client-side tool calling(copilot.simplepdf.com)
7 points by nip 5mo ago|1 comments
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by nip 5mo ago
Very likely, but you don’t need to be so aggressive and dismissive. Anyone who has achieved “distribution” knows. Anyone else is just lacking experience. Answering like you did is akin to gatekeeping. The world is better with more builders.
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by nip 5mo ago
I was approached twice to add « a search and tracking script » to my 35k+ user-based extension. Now I know what would have happened if I had accepted.
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by nip 5mo ago
Agree on Smart-ID but the answer is to fix those flaws, not to replace the entire approach with one that depends on Google Play Integrity verdicts that even the German architects admit they can’t fully trust. SIM-based solutions on their wa
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by nip 5mo ago
It is, mandated by the EU commission. Instead they could have mandated the use of eIDAS 1 to all countries + extend it with attribute/credential support, and let countries choose their implementation (cards, SIM, server-side). Instead
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by nip 5mo ago
I’m sorry to lash out at you but I keep getting disappointed in European countries (more precisely the ever disappointing EU commission) all suffering of the NIH syndrome instead of collaborating and learning from each other
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by nip 5mo ago
In light of all of these shortcomings with platform attestation, why go with the eIDAS 2 wallet approach at all? eIDAS 1 already solved this with Mobile-ID (SIM-based, no Google/Apple dependency) and Smart-ID (server-side key managemen
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Show HN: I curated 130 US PDF forms and made them fillable in browser(simplepdf.com)
13 points by nip 7mo ago|0 comments
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by nip 7mo ago
The web was initially meant to be browsed by desktop computers. Then came mobile phones with their small screens and touch control which forced the web to adapt: responsive design. Now it’s the turn of agents that need to see and interact w
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by nip 7mo ago
The reason is simple: the TUI is the fastest way to provide any form of UI over the file system. Want to do that with web technologies? You’ll need a browser AND a server or build an app using electron or tauri.
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by nip 9mo ago
> I still haven't figured out MCP or how/why to use them or why to bother. You run servers. I guess. It's too complex for my smol brain to understand I know this is self-deprecating humor, but you do NOT have a smol brain:
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by nip 10mo ago
It’s easy to pick on logic that failed and for which you have a very detailed and great post mortem write-up. Yet you omit to acknowledge that the remaining 99.99999% logic written that powers Cloudflare works flawlessly. Also, hindsight is

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