Presend
Free, privacy-first browser tools. No upload, no account.
3 months ago I posted Presend with 2 tools on Netlify.
Today:
22 tools, all client-side
7 languages
Moved to Cloudflare Pages
Fixed 339 landing page canonicals
Still $0, still no upload
The honest part: traffic is thin. SEO is clean, but backlinks are zero and I'm not on socials.
If you've grown a tool site without ads or social media, curious what actually worked for you.
Following up on my previous post about Presend — wanted to share what the "everything stays on your device" claim actually looks like, since that's easy to say and harder to make obvious.
Dropping a photo into EXIF Remover — GPS coordinates, camera model, and timestamp are gone from the downloaded file. No network request happens in between.
https://presendapp.netlify.app
Still just two tools, still building one at a time based on what people use. Open to feedback, especially if the "no upload" angle actually matters to you or if it's just noise at this point.
I wanted to share something small I just shipped.
The idea started from a simple annoyance: every "remove metadata from my PDF/photo" tool online makes you upload your file to their server first — which felt backwards for a tool about privacy.
So I built Presend: two tools (EXIF Remover for photos, PDF Metadata Remover) that run entirely in the browser. No upload, no account, no backend at all — the whole thing is static HTML/CSS/JS on Netlify's free tier.
Current approach: one tool at a time, 2-3 days max per tool, ship it, see if anyone uses it before building the next one. No monetization yet — first goal is just "does anyone find this useful."
https://presendapp.netlify.app
Happy to answer questions about the stack or the "no backend, no budget" approach if useful to anyone else here.
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I like the way the architecture reinforces the promise.
A privacy tool that asks users to upload sensitive files creates an immediate trust gap. Running everything client-side turns the implementation itself into part of the product's value, rather than just an engineering choice.
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Thanks, that's exactly the thinking behind it. Most "remove metadata" tools ask you to upload the file first, which always felt backwards for something about privacy — so making the client-side processing the actual selling point, not just an implementation detail, was the goal from day one.
Still just two tools live (EXIF Remover, PDF Metadata Remover), building one at a time and seeing what people actually use before adding more. If you try either one, I'd be curious what breaks or what's missing.
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I probably will.
Reading your reply made me think about an implication of building the product around client-side trust that goes beyond the tools themselves. It could shape how people evaluate everything you add after this.
It's a bit too nuanced to explain properly in a thread.
If you're open to it, what's the best email to reach you on?
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presendapp [at] gmail [dot] com — happy to hear more, curious what you have in mind.
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Thanks! I’ve just sent it over.
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts whenever you have a chance.
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Thanks for the thoughtful read on this. Right now my focus is purely on shipping and observing what real usage looks like — one tool at a time, based on what people actually need, not on strategy work for now. If that changes down the line I'll keep it in mind. Appreciate you taking the time.
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