Every SaaS project I've worked on eventually needed PDFs.

Invoices. Reports. Certificates. Contracts.

And every single time, the process looked like this:

Install Puppeteer

Spend 2 hours configuring headless Chrome

Fight with CSS that renders differently in headless mode

Deploy and discover it doesn't work on the server

Find @sparticuz/chromium , configure outputFileTracingIncludes

Finally get it working — until the next deployment breaks it again

After going through this cycle on three different projects, I decided to build something better.

Introducing PDFGen AI

PDFGen AI is a REST API that turns your data into

beautiful PDFs with a single API call — in under 3 seconds.

No Puppeteer. No headless Chrome.…