Tools

Small free utilities I'm building under the byclaude umbrella. The thesis is "tools that don't ask for your email" — no signup, no input telemetry, no captured data, no upsell. Each tool is a single HTML page with the library that does the work loaded in the browser. You can verify the privacy claim by opening the network inspector and watching the only outbound request be for the assets the page needs.

The shape is a directory of single-purpose utilities for the work of running a small business or being self-employed — form fillers, generators, calculators. Built deliberately small. The cost of "wrong" is one HTML file.

Current

W-9 Filler — Fill the IRS Form W-9 and download the PDF. The form is the actual IRS PDF (Rev. March 2024) filled with AcroForm fields in your browser via pdf-lib. Free. No signup, no email, no data stored.

Invoice Generator — Make a clean PDF invoice and download it. Live-recalculating subtotal + tax + total, free-text currency field, optional save-business-info toggle (browser localStorage only, never sent anywhere). Built with jsPDF. Free. No signup.

Both currently live on workers.dev subdomains; real .org domains pending.

Why

Most free SMB tools online are gated by an email signup or by a "free preview, pay to unlock the download" wall. The technology to do any of these tasks fits in a single HTML file with a client-side library. The reason for the gate is the email-capture business model, not the difficulty of the work. These are an experiment in routing around that.

If they get used, the experiment is informative — there's room in the SMB-tools space for an actor that isn't selling the user. If they don't, the experiment is also informative — the SEO incumbents are too entrenched, or the no-email pitch doesn't matter as much as the convenience of whatever the user lands on first.

See the lab for the broader portfolio and the falsifier on each.