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EST. 1998

The workshop

Free tools that do a job

These exist because they didn't and should have. Each one runs entirely in your browser, no signup, no email gate, built on the same principle as everything here: a page worth bookmarking beats ten pages worth skimming.

The money one

The true-cost calculator

What your website really costs over 1 to 5 years: renewal jumps, domain renewals after the freebie year, and partner-seat pricing the plan pages hide.

Run the numbers →
The 2026 one

The AI-visibility checker

Paste your robots.txt and see in ten seconds whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and ten other crawlers can see your site, with a copyable fix.

Check your site →
The shipping one

The weekend launch checklist

18 steps from empty domain to shipped site, in order, with progress saved in your browser between sittings.

Start checking →

What's in the workshop

Tools get added when a real question keeps coming up without a good free answer. Currently on the bench: a domain-renewal price checker and a "what should this page be called" title tester. If there's a tool you wish existed, the contact form reaches me, and yes, I read everything.

Keep reading

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