Building SaaS tools usually means paying for server compute, especially when handling file processing and ZIP generation. But as a solo developer, I wanted to build a high-performance tool for creators without racking up AWS bills.
So, I built AssetForge Labs—a digital product packager and SEO generator that runs entirely client-side.
The Engineering Problem
Digital creators (on platforms like Etsy) waste hours manually organizing ZIP files and researching SEO tags. I wanted to build a tool that automated this workflow, but uploading heavy digital art files to a server, processing them, and sending them back down is slow, expensive, and a privacy risk for unreleased assets.
The Client-Side Solution
