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Anvil
Company blog · useanvil.com/blog/engineeringprogrammingweb
Anvil is the company blog at useanvil.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Converting your vanilla JavaScript app to TypeScript”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mention Anvil as one of several services that turn PDFs into web forms and collect signatures, and point to its library of PDF templates as an example to follow.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Anvil is the document infrastructure for AI agents – collect data, fill and sign PDFs over API. Now agents can do real work, in the real world.
Most-linked posts?
- Converting your vanilla JavaScript app to TypeScript2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-06
What Hacker News says?
There are quite a few services that should be able to solve this problem (turning a PDF into a web form and collecting signatures.) Here's a few of the services I'm aware of: * https://www.hellosign.com/products/helloworks * https://www.useanvil.com * https://www.pandadoc.com * https://www.pdffiller.com * https://www.platoforms.com * JotForm ( https://www.jotform.com/help/433-How-to-Add-an-E-Signature-t... ) * https…
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on “What's so hard about PDF text extraction?”Submitted Show HN: Fill common PDF forms on the web with Anvil as a story · 40 points
HN discussion1. Incredible! Can I make an unsolicited ask? If you had industry specific templates for standardized PDFs it would be easier for me to send Parsewise to the insurance companies I'd worked for. Something similar to https://www.useanvil.com/forms/?type=pdf-templates but with your clean, semantic data model. 2. Can I ask how? When I was building something like this, I realized there's an element of burning tokens for…
Comment linking /forms/?type=pdf-templates
on “Launch HN: Parsewise (YC P25) – Reason Across Documents with an API”Submitted Show HN: Anvil PDF Filling API – Populate PDFs from Your App or Website as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anvil PDF API: e-signatures, PDF filling, PDF generation as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Load balancing gRPC in Kubernetes with a service mesh as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding Startup Stock Options as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Complete PDF API as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Converting your vanilla JavaScript app to TypeScript as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Throttling (token bucket) and 429 rate-limit handling when consuming APIs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mobile Accessible Forms as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Setting up VSCode as an Atom user as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Implementing 429 retries and throttling for API rate limits as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Autoscaling Nodes and Pods in Kubernetes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted SpectaQL 1.0: GraphQL doc generator as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Microfiber: Manipulate and Query GraphQL Schemas as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Node module repo best practices as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Anvil – Streamline Information Gathering. Automate Workflows as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Commoners App as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Understanding startup stock options as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Persisting Load Test Data in Kubernetes with K6, InfluxDB, and Grafana as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Techniques to optimize react render performance as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Converting your vanilla JavaScript app to TypeScript as a story · 1 points
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