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Just a bunch of free little tools in one place. Text converters, SEO checks, video downloaders, that kind of stuff. No signups, no ads.\n\nIf there is a tool you wish existed, you can request it on the site and I will build it. Do your worst. Seriously, ANY tool.\n\nMaybe it helps, maybe not. Enjoy!",{"problem":49,"audience":55,"pricing":56,"motivation":60,"time_to_build":64,"stack":68,"openness":79,"stage":80,"team_size":81},{"value":50,"source":51,"evidence":52},"Spammy tool sites with ads and signups for simple tasks","maker",[53],{"id":54},"post",null,{"value":57,"source":51,"evidence":58},"Free",[59],{"id":54},{"value":61,"source":51,"evidence":62},"Got tired of spammy tool sites for simple tasks",[63],{"id":54},{"value":65,"source":51,"evidence":66},"A few hours",[67],{"id":54},[69,75],{"value":70,"source":51,"evidence":71},"yt-dlp library",[72],{"id":73,"by":11,"text":74},"45404973","Ah it's buggy, youtube really doesn't like their videos being downloaded. 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No way I’m going to download and run stuff from some random source that I know nothing about.",{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"45405303","mayhemducks","How can users be sure that their inputs are not being saved somewhere on the backend? If I paste a bunch of content into these forms, and it inadvertently has some sensitive data…",{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"45409945","squigz","How can you ever be sure of that on any website that you don't fully host yourself?",{"value":113,"source":86,"evidence":114},"Embeds Google Tag Manager",[115],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":113},"45405176","crtasm",{"value":119,"source":51,"evidence":120},"YouTube downloader is buggy",[121],{"id":73,"by":11,"text":74},[123,130,137,144],{"value":124,"source":86,"evidence":125},"Network utilities such as DNS checker and ping",[126],{"id":127,"by":128,"text":129},"45406669","praveen9920","Bunch of network utilities like DNS checker, ping, port scan etc",{"value":131,"source":86,"evidence":132},"Link checker, JSON verifier, SSH key generator, image resizer, USB creator",[133],{"id":134,"by":135,"text":136},"45405065","dominicq","Nice. I like it, and will use it. 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It would really help if we could have an aggregator for these with powerful natural language search built-in.",[165,172,183,190],{"value":166,"source":86,"evidence":167},"cobalt.tools",[168],{"id":169,"by":170,"text":171},"45406675","Imustaskforhelp","there is also uh, god, I always forget its name whenever I want to use it.... AHHHHH YESS, I FINALLY REMEMBERED IT AFTER 5 minutes of thinking. https:\u002F\u002Fcobalt.tools This has…",{"value":173,"source":86,"evidence":174},"CyberChef",[175,179],{"id":176,"by":177,"text":178},"45404934","chanux","Does The Youtube downloader work? 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