
I Built 43 Browser Tools That Never Upload Your Files — Including a Video Editor
The Problem I needed to compress a PDF. Google gave me 10 "free" options. Every single one wanted me to upload my file to their server . I'm a developer. I know browsers can do this locally. So why is everyone building server-dependent tools? The Solution: DragKit I built DragKit — 43 tools that run 100% in the browser. No uploads, no accounts, no servers processing your files. Complete Toolkit (43 tools) Category Count Highlights PDF Suite 13 Compress, merge, split, edit, sign, watermark, convert Image Tools 9 Resize, crop, remove background, meme generator, favicon Dev Tools 10 JSON/XML format, Base64, color picker, QR gen, MD preview Calculators 4 Mortgage (French/German), BMI, percentage, tax Video & Media 2 Full video editor (FFmpeg WASM), photo filters Text Utilities 5 OCR, word counter, lorem ipsum, hex→rgb, AI prep Tech Stack (intentionally simple) Frontend: Vanilla HTML + CSS + JS Hosting: Cloudflare Pages (free tier) PDF: pdf-lib, pdf.js Video: FFmpeg compiled to WASM (30MB,
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