many.tools

A second tool has been added - Which means I'm one small step closer to the goal implicit in the site name - that of providing "many tools"!

Introducing the Basic Auth Generator. It's a quick and easy way to generate basic authentication headers.

This one was a simple tool to create, as honestly it's pretty much just a wrapper around the browsers inbuilt btoa() function, with a nice UI and a copy button for convenience!

After a bit of hustle yesterday evening, I've managed to get the site online, and add the first utility!

Introducing Markdown Preview! It's a user friendly tool that lets you open, preview, edit and save markdown files.

Take a look and give me a shout if you find any bugs (of which I'm sure there will be plenty), or have any feature requests or general feedback.

I've recently started work on many.tools! It's a project I've considered starting for a while now. There are a few reasons I've chosen to spend time working on this:

1.) Each "tool" can be a relatively small sub-project of it's own, which can be taken from conception to shipping in a relatively short time frame. Hopefully this will maximise my chances of shipping useable products!

2.) Many of the existing tools out there are either difficult to use, ugly or have a limited feature set. By building my own versions, I believe I can provide better alternatives to the existing options.

3.) If enough other people find these useful, then eventually I can pop a small ad on to bring in a small amount of revenue.

For the time being, I'll be focussing on tools that can run entirely on the end-users browser, so that I can deploy as a static site to Netlify and avoid any running costs.

Look out for the first tool (a simple markdown editor/preview tool) soon!