I spent the better part of two weeks living on caffeine, error logs, and the kind of optimism only a solo developer at 3 AM can produce. The goal was simple, or at least it sounded simple when I wrote it on a sticky note: build a clean, fast, free developer toolbox. No signups. No dark patterns. No "upgrade to Pro to copy your own output."
I called it YoBox — a single home for the small tools developers and QA engineers reach for every day: disposable email, webhook capture, Docker Compose scaffolding, regex testing, password generation, and Lorem Ipsum that doesn't look like it was generated in 2008.
Then I launched it on Reddit.
Reddit, in its infinite wisdom, decided I was a spam bot operating out of an undisclosed bunker.
This is the story of how that happened, what I learned, and why I now have more respect for spam filters than I ever wanted to have.
