Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads

toolbrew.co

41–50 of 65 posts

Re: Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads

#41
Nicely put-together collection of tools - thanks for sharing.

Would be helpful if more input boxes could use relevant types (e.g. “number”, “url”, etc.) so the dedicated keyboard appears on mobile.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

Re: Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads

#47
post #38

I do a similar thing with https://www.thateasy.me/ I use it to test the latest coding/automation tools. I think I prefer your design :)

Interesting side effect of having to choose calendar years is that it misses the break between Xmas and New Years' Day that is often a good-value time to take off (and many people would take off anyway).

Re: Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads

#48

QR code generator would be good. Many of the online generators don’t link directly where you ask, but through a tracking domain.

Seconded. I remember a decade ago it was really easy to find legitimate ones just by googling. Last week I literally spent 20 minutes trying to find one that didn’t use a redirect through some sketchy site. It would have taken me less time than that to install a CLI tool, vibe code it, or self-host some OSS package, but I foolishly thought it couldn’t possibly take more than 60 [additional] seconds to find one, which I kept reassuring myself again each minute of my frustrated search.

Re: Show HN: Toolbrew – Free little tools without signups or ads

#50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's fair, what would you want to see safety-wise? Whole point of it is to make something safe and reliable

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 in it, such as a credential or key of some kind, how do I know that isn't a data breech?

How can you ever be sure of that on any website that you don't fully host yourself?
Post reply on HN