PDF Pals

AI-powered MacOS app to research PDF documents

PDF Pals applies OCR technology to scan the content of PDF documents and combines with AI to extract important information from the documents, allowing users to read, summarize, and research PDF documents effectively, serving various purposes such as learning, research, work, etc...

The product was built and developed since 2023 by Daniel Nguyen, a software engineer from Vietnam.

Revenue model

PDF Pals generates revenue by selling perpetual licenses to users, with updates included within 1 year, priced from $26 to $34 per device.

With this model, the product currently brings in revenue of around $2,000/month, according to the author's sharing.

Marketing strategy

PDF Pals has been mainly welcomed by the Twitter community, after Daniel has spent a lot of effort to build a large following on this social network. At the same time, the process of building and developing the tool was also shared publicly on Twitter, bringing Daniel a lot of attention and interaction from the indie hacker community.

In addition to Twitter, the product is also listed on Setapp, increasing the chance of reaching Mac users worldwide.