How I built 13 privacy-first freelancer tools as a static site (no backend, no accounts)

Sam Lee

Posted on Sep 4

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Most "free" tools for freelancers want an email address before they show you a number. I wanted the opposite: open a page, type your figures, get the answer, close the tab. So I built SoloDesk, a set of 13 small tools for people who bill their own clients, as a plain static site. No framework, no backend, no accounts, nothing uploaded.

This post is about the decisions behind it, a few things that went wrong, and what a search plan looks like for a domain that is a week old.