The Story Behind PDFWorkSpace Why I Built This (Personal Narrative) It started with a simple task that turned into a privacy nightmare. I was working on a sensitive document— just some documents with personal information. I needed to merge a few PDFs, so I did what everyone does: Googled "merge PDF online" and clicked the first result. Upload. Process. Download. Done. But then I couldn't stop thinking about it. Where did my files go? Are they still on that server? Who has access to them? What if they're being used to train some AI model? What if there was a data breach and I'd never even know? I read the privacy policy (yeah, I'm that person). It was the usual corporate speak: "We may store your files for up to 24 hours... We use third-party services... We reserve the right to..." Translation: "We can do whatever we want with your data, and you just have to trust us." The Trust Problem Here's the thing: I'm sure most of these companies are probably fine. But "probably fine" isn't good enough when it comes to: Tax returns with your social security number Medical records with diagnosis details Legal contracts with confidential clauses Financial statements with account numbers Academic work that could be plagiarized You're asking me to trust a random company I've never heard of with my most sensitive documents? Hard pass. So I built PDFWorkSpace using Lovable and Antigravity (Claude Opus). Not because I'm some privacy activist or because I think every company is evil. I built it because I shouldn't have to trust anyone with my private documents when the technology exists to avoid it entirely.

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