What I built

Forgelab is a developer API platform that handles the boring document and image work so you can ship faster.

Right now it does four things:

PDF API — merge, split, compress, convert

Image API — resize, compress, convert, watermark

Invoice API — generate professional PDF invoices from JSON

QR Code API — generate and decode QR codes

The problem it solves

Every SaaS app eventually needs to generate invoices, resize images, or process PDFs. You either spend a week building it yourself, or you pay $99/month for a service that does one thing.

Forgelab bundles all of it under one API key.

How it works

# Generate an invoice in one API call curl -X POST https://api.forgelab.africa/api/invoice/generate \ -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "client": { "name": "Acme Corp", "email": "[email protected]" }, "items": [{ "description": "Web development", "quantity": 10, "unit_price": 150 }], "currency": "USD", "template": "modern" }' \ --output invoice.pdf

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