Free mini web tools you can use directly in your browser without installing anything
The Internet is full of small tools that you can use for free to perform specific tasks. Now you can add a few more free tools to this list as I’ve started a cool side project on my other website.
Sometimes you just need to check something, to split a document, to count some words. You don’t need to find, read reviews and install a piece of software just to test the keys on your keyboard.
Every time I need to perform some kind of small operation I’m thinking “what if there’s a website that does that for free?”. I always search for stuff like “split PDF tool”, “online compress image tool”, or whatever I need to do. Most of the time I find what I’m looking for. It may not be the first search result, or the second, but I always find something free and quick to use on the first page.
The Why and How
This is how I got the idea of starting to develop my own tools. I get to learn something new, plus I can build a ton of tools easily with the use of AI. AI will come in handy as soon as I venture outside my programming comfort limits, which can now be summarized as HTML, CSS, PHP, and some JavaScript.
The What
So, a few weeks ago I started researching what kind of tools I will be developing. As I said in the beginning, small tools are what I’m looking for. The type of tools that do just one thing, with little or no options at all.
My focus is on making stuff that’s easy to use, fast, completely free, and very useful for specific tasks.
I thought I would have a hard time coding, but you’d be surprised how many free services, frameworks, open-source projects and APIs are available for amateur coding projects like mine. This helps speed up the development and deployment of my tools significantly.
Where do I publish these tools?
I immediately started looking for domain names, then I remembered I already have one tech website that I very much like, even if it may seem that I’ve neglected it in the last year.
So, I started developing and slowly adding tools on BinaryFork.com. Now I can finally show the world what I’ve been doing.
Where can I find the tools?
You will find a list of all the free mini-tools on this page on BinaryFork.
What tools are available right now?
At the time of writing this piece there are just 7 tools.
All are free to use, all are very easy to use, none requires you to create a user account, none of them stores your data in any way. As I said I just want these tools to be useful and be used.
So, I wouldn’t mind if you shared these tools with your friends. It would be greatly appreciated if you did.
What’s next in the pipeline
I have a bunch of ideas on how to extend the functionality of the existing tools, plus a list of what to do next. I’m also open to suggestions, so leave a comment with what would be useful for you. Also, any feedback would be good, so let me know what you think about these tools.
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