AavanamKit
Hey HN, I'm the creator of AavanamKit. I built this because I was tired of the endless cycle of hardcoding and tweaking invoice layouts for clients. My solution was to build a visual, drag-and-drop designer component that you can embed directly into a React app. It empowers your users to create their own templates, which can then be generated on the backend with a headless engine. The project is fully open-source, and I'd be grateful for any feedback you have on the live demo. I wrote a more detailed post about the journey here:…
AavanamKit launched on August 14, 2025 with 11 votes, #1,601 of 8,530 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
What it does
Tired of tweaking invoice layouts? AavanamKit is an open-source React component that adds a full drag-and-drop report designer to your app. Empower your users to create their own templates, which you can render on the backend with our headless engine.
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hey HN, I'm the creator of AavanamKit. I built this because I was tired of the endless cycle of hardcoding and tweaking invoice layouts for clients. My solution was to build a visual, drag-and-drop designer component that you can embed directly into a React app. It empowers your users to create their own templates…
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