I curated 130 US PDF forms and made them fillable in browser
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Hi HN!I built SimplePDF 7 years ago, with the vision from day one to help get rid of bureaucracy (I'm from France, I know what I'm talking about)Fast forward to this week where I finally released something I had on my mind for a long time: a repository of the main US forms that are ready to be filled, straight from the browser, as opposed to having to find a PDF tool online (or local).I focused on healthcare, ED, HR, Legal and IRS/Tax for now.On the tech-side, it's SimplePDF all the way down: client-side processing (the data / documents stay in your browser).I hope you find the resource useful!NiP
HN · launched Feb 17, 2026 · 13 upvotes (top 38%) · 0 views
Niche: browser-based pdf tools · 442 launches, 36 in the last 7 days ▼ -32% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Government
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes A web-based repository of static PDF forms rendered and made interactive with client-side PDF editing libraries (e.g. PDF.js, pdf-lib) is easily assembled using modern web frameworks and AI code generation.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 578 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #174 of 579 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 109 days after the earliest competitor.
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- VoraPDF · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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- A free, browser-only PDF tools collection built with Kimi k2.5 · hn · 2026-02-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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