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I built a tiny desktop app because Australia Post labels kept printing wrong

DEV Community: sass·Jake·3 days ago
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I've lost count of how many small tools start with a sentence like this: "Surely someone has already fixed this." That was the thought behind LabelChop , a boring little desktop app for Australian sellers who use MyPost Business and 4x6 thermal label printers. The problem sounds too small to be a product. MyPost Business gives you an A4 PDF. Your thermal printer wants a 4x6 or 100x150mm label. Somewhere between those two facts, people end up opening Acrobat, cropping, screenshotting, resizing, changing print settings, wasting labels, and swearing at a Dymo or Zebra printer. I know. Not exactly glamorous SaaS. But it was the kind of problem that kept showing up in the same shape. Sellers were not asking for an ecommerce operating system. They just wanted the stupid label to print correctly. The workflow I wanted to remove The old flow looked something like this: Download the A4 PDF from MyPost Business. Open it in Acrobat or Chrome. Try to crop the label. Find out the PDF tool does not quite do what you need.…

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