Building the first toolbox slice

When I started yueyekidl.com, the temptation was to build everything at once: accounts, payments, analytics, a polished marketing page. None of that helps a visitor in the first ten seconds.

So the first slice is deliberately small. Two tools that run entirely in the browser — a text counter and a JSON formatter. No login, no server round-trip, no waiting.

Why local-first

The strongest argument for processing data in the browser is not performance. It is trust.

People will not paste sensitive JSON or a draft of their writing into a random tool that ships it to a server they cannot inspect.

Local-first removes that doubt. The data never leaves the device, which means the tool can be honest about privacy without a long privacy policy.

What comes next

The plan is simple and slow on purpose:

1. Add tools that solve a repeated pain.
2. Write a short note explaining each one.
3. Only add server features when local processing is genuinely not enough.

Payments come last, not first. A useful free tool earns more trust than a locked paywall ever will.

// The whole tool is just a pure function + a textarea.
function countText(input: string) {
  return { characters: input.length };
}

That is the entire philosophy: small, testable, useful.