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Harry Lee
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I let AI build my entire side project from scratch. I just supervised.

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 landing me on a bloated site drowning in ads.

So I built my own. 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.
Tools for all site image

What's in there

Dev:

Design:

General:

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.

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