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I Built a Free Toolkit of 170+ Developer & Finance Tools — Here's What's Inside

If you've ever had seven different browser tabs open — one for a JSON formatter, another for a Base64 encoder, a third for a regex tester, and four more for various finance calculators — this post is for you.

I built UtilsDaily.com to solve this exact problem: one fast, free, no-login place for the tools I reach for every single day.

Here's everything that's inside.


What is UtilsDaily?

UtilsDaily is a free utility platform with 170+ tools for developers, students, and finance planners. The core philosophy is simple:

  • Zero login required — use any tool instantly
  • Privacy-first — no tracking, no cookies beyond what's needed
  • No ads — clean interface, always
  • Embeddable — every tool has a free iframe embed for your blog or docs site

The tools span eight categories. Let me walk through each one.


🛠️ Developer Tools

This is where I spend most of my time. A few standouts:

JSON Formatter & Validator

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Paste in any JSON and it'll:

  • Format/beautify with 2-space, 4-space, or tab indent
  • Minify for production (removes all whitespace)
  • Validate and show parse errors with clear messages
  • Show key count and file size

Quick tip from the docs — JSON is typically 30–50% smaller than equivalent XML, which is why it won the API format wars. The validator catches the most common mistakes: single quotes, trailing commas, and undefined values (which aren't valid JSON — use null).

SQL Formatter

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Paste in that dense production query and get back something a human can actually read. Supports CTEs, window functions, JOINs — everything from your messy SELECT to your monstrous stored procedure.

Regex Tester

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Live regex testing with match highlights. I use this more than I'd like to admit.

Other dev tools worth bookmarking:

Tool What it does
UUID Generator Cryptographically random UUID v4
Hash Generator MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256 in the browser
JWT Decoder Inspect header, payload, signature
Password Generator Secure random passwords
Unix Timestamp Converter Epoch → human-readable and back
Ruby to JSON Converter Ruby hash syntax → valid JSON
Image to Base64 Data URI strings for CSS/HTML
CSS Box Shadow Generator Visual builder with live preview
CSS Border Radius Generator Rounded corners, visually
CSS Gradient Generator Linear + radial with live preview

Formatters & Minifiers

For the days when you inherit badly formatted code:

CSS Converters

Two I use constantly for responsive design:


🎓 Interview Preparation Guides

This section is unique — it's not just a tool, it's a deep reference.

Ruby & Rails Interview Prep (16 topics)

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Covers everything that actually comes up in backend interviews:

  • Metaprogrammingdefine_method, method_missing, class_eval
  • Blocks, Procs & Lambdas — key differences with the & operator explained
  • Eager Loading & N+1 Queriesincludes vs eager_load vs preload
  • Rails Design Patterns — Service Objects, Query Objects, Policy Objects, Decorators
  • Background Jobs — Sidekiq, SQS, Kafka compared in a decision table
  • SQL Fundamentals — CTEs, window functions, JOINs with runnable examples
  • Hotwire/Turbo — the Rails 7+ stack explained
  • Action Cable & WebSockets — real-time with broadcast_append_to

Each topic has actual runnable code examples, not just theory. The search bar lets you jump to any concept instantly.

Redis Interview Prep (16 topics)

→ Read it

Data types, persistence modes (RDB vs AOF), pub/sub, clustering, and caching patterns with code.

React Interview Prep (12 topics)

→ Read it

From fundamentals to senior-level concepts — hooks, reconciliation, performance patterns.

Ruby Multithreading Guide (14 topics)

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Threads, the GIL, Mutex, Fibers, Ractor, deadlocks, and real-world concurrency patterns. Essential reading before any senior Ruby interview.


💰 Finance Tools — India

This is the largest section, built specifically for Indian users. If you're an Indian developer (like me) who also invests, you'll know the pain of switching between five different government portals just to run basic calculations.

Investment Calculators

Tax & Salary

Loans & Comparison Tools

Stocks & Trading


💵 Finance Tools — US

Three fully updated tools for 2026:


✏️ Text Tools

The text manipulation tools that belong in every developer's bookmarks:


🎲 Converters, Health, & Random Tools

Unit Converters: Length, weight, temperature, area, speed, data storage, volume, and number base (binary/octal/decimal/hex).

Health & Fitness: BMI, body fat %, calorie needs (TDEE), macro calculator, sleep cycle calculator, pregnancy due date calculator.

Date & Time: Age calculator, timezone converter (20 cities), Pomodoro timer, business days calculator, week number calculator.

Random: Random number generator, coin flip (cryptographically secure), dice roller (D4–D20), list randomizer, random color generator.

Color: Color picker (HEX/RGB/HSL), color palette generator using color theory, gradient generator.


🔌 Embed Any Tool on Your Site

Every tool on UtilsDaily has an embed option. One line of HTML:

<iframe 
  src="https://utilsdaily.com/developers/json-formatter?embed=true" 
  width="100%" 
  height="500" 
  frameborder="0" 
  style="border: 1px solid #e2e8f0; border-radius: 8px;"
  title="JSON Formatter & Validator">
</iframe>
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Attribution back to UtilsDaily is included as a small footer link — that's how the project stays free.


Why I Built It

I'm a backend engineer with experience across Ruby on Rails, Golang, and blockchain infrastructure. Over time I found myself with the same eight tabs open every day — JSON formatter, base64 tool, regex tester, EMI calculator, income tax comparison — each on a different site, each with ads, each requiring a separate bookmark.

UtilsDaily started as a personal utility page that grew into something bigger. The interview prep section came directly from my own prep work — I couldn't find a single page that covered Ruby metaprogramming, Rails design patterns, SQL fundamentals, and Redis in one place with actual runnable code examples. So I built it.


What's Coming Next

  • More US finance tools (Roth IRA, Social Security estimator — already live)
  • API documentation checker
  • GraphQL query formatter
  • Color contrast accessibility checker (WCAG)
  • More interview prep guides: System Design, PostgreSQL, Golang

Try It

Everything is at utilsdaily.com — no login, no ads, 170+ tools.

If there's a tool you reach for daily that's missing, drop it in the comments. I read everything and the backlog is community-driven.


Built with a focus on Developers and Finance planning (India, US), but the dev tools are universally useful. Happy to answer any questions about the tech stack or specific tools in the comments.

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