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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, nothing you type is sent anywhere, 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 across six paths: 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 new one

The search snippet previewer

Paste a title and description and see exactly where Google cuts them, measured in pixels rather than guessed in characters, on desktop and on a phone.

Preview your snippet →
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 →

Why these four and not forty

A tool gets built here when a real question keeps coming up and the free answers online are wrong. The cost calculator exists because every comparison article quotes first-year prices and none of them quote renewals. The AI-visibility checker exists because robots.txt is the one file that can make a site invisible to assistants and almost nobody reads theirs. The snippet previewer exists because the character-count checkers everyone uses are measuring the wrong thing: Google truncates by pixel width, and a title full of narrow letters fits far more than one full of wide ones.

What's on the bench

Next up: a domain-renewal price checker, because registrar renewal rates are the other place teaser pricing hides. If there's a tool you wish existed, the contact form reaches me, and yes, I read everything.

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