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Show HN: I built 184 free browser tools – PDF, image, dev, AI tasks, no upload

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Re: Show HN: I built 184 free browser tools – PDF, image, dev, AI tasks, no upload

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post #20

Is there an way for me as user to be sure that the no upload promise holds? I mean yeah I could use the dev tools, but it would be cooler to have the browser eg prohibiting visually any upload of data beyond the pure url request

Of course not.

You can download the source and so you only need to vet it once.

Re: Show HN: I built 184 free browser tools – PDF, image, dev, AI tasks, no upload

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post #19

Normalize not writing "I built" for vibecoded sites with generic Claude UI.

Normalize being a nice person who doesn’t rip on people for no reason.

How to be a nice person without uploading (no offense)

Re: Show HN: I built 184 free browser tools – PDF, image, dev, AI tasks, no upload

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post #9

I am amazed and impressed, but someone should point out here some of the gaps in vision and effort or craft that lead to manual spam like “How to Compress Images Without Uploading Them (2026)”

I know it’s 2026 and on mobile but the correct “how to” will lead with gzip or existing native compression and provide this workaround as an alternative rather than as a literal modern replacement.

I an spending more effort to critique than the thing was given to begin with, but someone took the effort to downvote a criticism of, no offense intended to the end user, literally AI spam clickbait headlines for ranking, and so I feel engaged.

Re: Show HN: I built 184 free browser tools – PDF, image, dev, AI tasks, no upload

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post #25
post #16

Please remove the scroll jacking, there is just no need.

It's vibe coded AI slop, he probably has no idea the page is scroll jacking.

They does not have to. AI reads HN discussion and improves. We are all part of the agent loop.

Re: Show HN: I built 184 free browser tools – PDF, image, dev, AI tasks, no upload

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Thanks for making these, and sorry that Hacker News has so much of the “thanks I hate it” crowd. It’s a good thing you’re doing - especially to provide them without monetizing. Though one could generate these tools themselves if needed, the generated tools won’t be as refined as you’ve codified here and won’t be immediately available for use - they have to be generated!

The website is great and functional but if I may, it needs some tweaks so it matches the offer. Since the offering’s about doing less (no login, no upload) you’d be better to go with “less is more” on the feel, and only use animations - or interfere with scrolling - if such things truly add extra information. All the animations there now are decoration. The tools have no such decoration, and that causes dissonance.

Gonna be bookmarking this while wishing for a search engine that finds stuff like this instead of its SEOed out the wazoo compatriots. But maybe there’ll always be value in human curation.

Re: Show HN: I built 184 free browser tools – PDF, image, dev, AI tasks, no upload

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post #9

I am amazed and impressed, but someone should point out here some of the gaps in vision and effort or craft that lead to manual spam like “How to Compress Images Without Uploading Them (2026)”

Ok, here’s a hint. They’re mostly not the fault of this person promoting something new.
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