A collection of neat and small helpers for creating stuff online. Handle with care and feel free to contribute if you miss your favorites!
Disclaimer: Please read terms&conditions and licenses/attribution requirements of the tools carefully. Also, don't use them with confidential/real customer or user data.
- Reduse file sizes of JPEG, PNG, SVG, GIF and WEBP files with Compressor
- Reduse file sizes of MP4, AVI, MPEG, MOV files with Videosmaller
- Optimize GIFs online with ezgif
- Convert various kinds of files into one another via cloudconvert
- Quite unique icons, featuring an online SVG editor: game-icons.net
- "A simple, consistent open-source icon set" - Mono Icons
- >30.000 free PNG icons on streamlineicons
- Allegedly the "largest database of free icons available in PNG, SVG, EPS, PSD and BASE 64 formats" - Flaticon
- Arguably the top dog: Pexels
- A bit more experimental: Gratisography
- Focusing on tech and software topics: Startupstockphotos
- Beautiful images of code snippets via carbon
- CSV and SQL to JSON, JSON validator & beautifier: csvjson
- Validating, beautifying, converting and a ton more on codebeautify.org
- Ruby Date/Time Formatting via foragoodstrftime.com
- Reference and sandbox for
strftimein Ruby, Python, C, PHP: strfti.me
- Regular expressoins in JavaScript, with visualization: regexper.com
- Regexes in PHP, Golang, JS, Python regex101.com
- Gradient color suggestions on eggradients
- Create tints and shades for
#hexcolor codes via maketintsandshades.com - Generate neumorphism effects via neumorphism.io
- Generate matching font sets via Fontjoy
- Generate hero sections with the hero generator
- Favicons in whichever format and size you need via realfavicongenerator.net
- Various laoding animations and progress bars on loading.io
- Tired of coming up with test data? Get suggestions from boredapi
- Fake user data using DuckDuckGo's Random Person Generator
- Reference of HTML and keyboard shortcuts for special characters via key-shortcut.com
- Generate a HTTP response to test (frontend) code with httpstat.us
- It "lets you generate up to 1,000 rows of realistic test data in CSV, JSON, SQL, and Excel formats" - mockaroo
- Perhaps your first stop: Google's Lighthouse
- Check your website for "best practices, performance and SEO" on geekflare's speed test
- Didn't find anything useful? Head over to tiny-helpers.dev
- Need an OSS alternative for one of your favorite apps? Find it on opensource.builders