I built a boring tool

I confess, I built a boring tool.

An API that generates PDF documents.

A standard, old-fashioned, REST API.

Yet another one, I’d say.

Lots of similar tools out there.

But this is not what concerns me.

You know, competitors are a good thing, they said.

It’s free validated market.

In 2025, it feels strange to say it out loud.

We live in the age of AI, where everything is probabilistic.

We live in the probabilistic era, some said.

And yet I made something deterministic, predictable to the pixel.

And there’s more.

PDFs are dusty relics, and I often wonder if they will even survive the next few years.

What if AI soon manages to generate the exact document a user wants, with the right structure and look, without the need for such rigid tools?

So why did I build it? Because I needed it. Because my clients still need PDFs. And when a few of them asked for the same thing, I wrapped it up as a product. I gave it a name, DeckServe, and put it out there.

Will it live or die? Hard to say.

Maybe in 2026 or 2027 no one will dream of calling an API to generate a PDF.

Or maybe, quietly, it will keep serving those who still need certainty in a world full of probabilities.

I’m honestly curious to see what happens.

But my expectations are low.