I let AI build my entire side project from scratch. I just supervised.
Source: Dev.to
I work at Unity during the day. After work, I don’t really want to write code.
But I kept hitting the same annoyance: needing some tiny utility — convert a timestamp, resize an image, format some JSON — and every search result landed me on a bloated site drowning in ads.
So I built my own. I used Claude and Cursor throughout: architecture decisions, component structure, infra setup, CI/CD — I reviewed and directed, they typed. Nothing groundbreaking about the workflow, I know. But it let me actually finish something instead of burning out three weekends in.
The result: Tools for all — a clean collection of stuff I personally Google on repeat.
What’s in there
Dev
- JSON Formatter
- Timestamp Converter
- UUID Generator
- Base64 Converter
- URL Encoder/Decoder
- Mermaid Editor
- Markdown Editor
Design
- Image Resizer / Compressor / Converter
- Color Converter (HEX ↔ RGB ↔ HSL)
- Box Shadow Generator
- Favicon Generator
General
- QR Code Generator
- Password Generator
- Timezone Converter
- Character Counter
- Case Converter
- Emoji Picker
And a Minesweeper that I didn’t plan to ship but shipped anyway.
Stack is Next.js on GCP Cloud Run, 7 locales. I’ll keep adding tools as I hit new annoyances. If there’s something you find yourself Googling every other day, drop it below — it might be next.