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How I Built a Privacy-First Browser Tool Suite to Fix My Own Freelance Workflow (No Backend, No Uploads, No Nonsense)

DEV Community: opensource·Roman Popovych·about 1 month ago
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Ever had one of those freelance days where you spend more time switching between tabs than actually building something? Client sends over 10 raw photos, 3MB each. No logo. No favicon. SEO meta tags that need to be written from scratch. You open one site to convert images, another to compress them, a third to generate favicons. One of them has a casino ad that takes up half the screen. Another one slaps a watermark on your file without warning. A third one probably uploads your images somewhere and you have no idea where they go. I counted once. Six different sites for one client project. Before writing a single line of code. At some point I just got tired of it and decided to build my own thing. Not because I thought it would be easy, but because I had 1-2 hours after work and nothing better to do with them. That project is devtools.abect.com — a set of free browser-based tools for developers. Image converters, compressors, favicon generator, SEO meta tag generator.…

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