so i've been building this thing called yourhack.ai for the last couple weeks and i wanted to write down the honest version of how it's going, mostly because everything i read about side projects is either a flex or a "how i hit $10k MRR" thing and this is very much neither lol.
it started dumb. i kept needing quick little tools online, convert this file, format this json, compress this image, count these words. and every single time i'd land on some site absolutely drowning in ads and popups, half of them making you create an account just to download the result of a 10 second task. it genuinely irritated me every time.
so i built one. a clean little tool that does the thing and gets out of the way. then i built another. and uh, i didn't really stop. it's over 1000 now.
the thing that let it get out of hand this fast is honestly the only clever bit: i don't build pages, i build entries. every tool is basically one object in a file (name, description, a little render function), and a template turns that into a full page with its own url, seo tags, structured data, search entry, all of it. so adding the 500th tool costs about the same as the 5th. the whole site is a single cloudflare worker at the edge, and most of the tools run entirely in your browser so your files just stay on your machine (the newer ai-powered ones do hit a server, being upfront about that).
