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I just shipped my 50th free browser tool — here's what building alone at midnight looks like

DEV Community·Zihang Dong 董子航·27 days ago
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It's 12:30 AM. The apartment is quiet. The only light is my monitor, and the terminal cursor blinks like a heartbeat. Tonight, ToolKnit crossed 50 tools. Fifty-two, to be exact. What is ToolKnit? ToolKnit is a collection of free, browser-based tools — PDF converters, image editors, video compressors, text utilities, calculators, and more. Every tool runs entirely in your browser. No file uploads, no sign-ups, no server-side processing. Your files never leave your device. The stack is deliberately simple: static HTML, Tailwind CSS, vanilla JavaScript. No React, no Next.js, no build step. Just files on a server.…

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