Why I’m building Living Page.
A while back I kept hitting the same wall in client work: I’d finish a nice brochure or report, go to put it online, and the only “professional” option made the whole thing look cheap. I toyed with building something better — then life got in the way and it sat on the shelf. I’ve finally picked it back up.
What it is
Living Page turns PDFs into interactive, flipbook-style documents — brochures, catalogues, portfolios, reports — far nicer to read online than a flat PDF, and easy to embed or share.
And yes, before anyone says it: I know this already exists. Issuu exists. Yumpu exists. I’m not claiming to have invented the flipbook. It’s that actually using those tools for real client work made me want to throw my laptop out of a window. So here we are.
The itch
It was always the same three things:
- They get expensive, fast. The moment you need anything genuinely useful, you’re pushed up a tier — and the price climbs quicker than the value does.
- The good stuff hides behind higher plans. Custom domains, white-labelling, real analytics — the features you actually want for client work are the ones held hostage.
- Free plans put clients off. Ads and watermarks wrapped around a “professional” brochure that’s meant to represent your client’s brand, not someone else’s. Nobody wants to hand that over.
And if you’re doing this across several clients, you’re either paying thousands a year or juggling a mess of separate logins.
Who it’s for
I’m building this for the two kinds of people I’ve been:
- Freelancers & small businesses who just want their documents to look good online without it costing a fortune.
- Agencies managing this across multiple clients, who shouldn’t need enterprise budgets or a drawer full of logins to keep each client tidy.
What I want it to be
So it’s built around a few stubborn principles:
A one-pager and a 200-page catalogue live on the same plan.
Free carries one small, tasteful badge — never third-party ads around your client’s content.
More clients, white-labelling — never because you hit an arbitrary wall.
Built to stay fast and affordable — not “affordable until you need anything real.”
Early days
This started as a weekend project and there’s no launch date yet. But the waitlist is open — and if you deal with PDFs or client documents regularly, I’d genuinely love your early thoughts on what it should do.
Sound like something you’d use?
Join the waitlist