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      <title>I built 65+ Developer tools with github copilot for developer community</title>
      <dc:creator>Pranay Mokal</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/pranaysmokal/i-built-65-developer-tools-with-github-copilot-for-developer-community-1g4p</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is a submission for the &lt;a href="https://dev.to/challenges/github-2026-05-21"&gt;GitHub Finish-Up-A-Thon Challenge&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  What I Built
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This project began as a small collection of developer tools within my personal portfolio on January 10, 2026. Over time, I decided to make it publicly available for the entire developer community and made it public on 18-05-2026 with 52 tools since then added 14 more.&lt;br&gt;
This is my small contribution to the developer community, and in turn, a contribution to society directly or indirectly.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Today, it has grown into a comprehensive collection of 65+ developer utilities designed to help developers with everyday tasks.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What makes it different?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;More advanced features and improved tools.&lt;br&gt;
No backend infrastructure.&lt;br&gt;
No sign-up or login required.&lt;br&gt;
Fully client-side application.&lt;br&gt;
Free for everyone.&lt;br&gt;
No rate limits.&lt;br&gt;
100% secure you can also open n/w tab and check.&lt;br&gt;
Tools gives lot but depending on your browser capacity.&lt;br&gt;
Not just free for developers but for everyone around the globe.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Feedback, suggestions and any kind of contributions are always welcome.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What it contains ?&lt;br&gt;
API &amp;amp; Network Tools&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Restify **- Rest API Testing Tool&lt;br&gt;
**Swagger/OpenAPI Viewer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Postman Collection Viewer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;HAR File Explorer&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;JWT Decoder&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Advanced IPv4 &amp;amp; IPv6 Subnet Calculator&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;SSL Certificate Checker&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
🏗️ Architecture &amp;amp; Diagramming -( i tried to preserve  engineering discipline)&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Architecture Diagram Builder&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Entity Relationship Diagram Designer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;UML Class Diagram Builder&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Flowchart Diagram Designer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Docker Compose Visualizer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;🔄 Data &amp;amp; Format Converters&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;JSON Pretty Print/Minify&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;XML Pretty Print&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;SQL Beautifier&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;CSV Viewer &amp;amp; Search&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Format Converters&lt;/strong&gt;: Switch seamlessly between formats using the CSV to JSON, JSON to CSV, YAML ↔ JSON, and XML ↔ JSON converters.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;CSV To SQL&lt;/strong&gt;: Convert CSV files into DDL/DML scripts for various databases.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Spring Boot Properties Converter&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
🔐 Security, Crypto &amp;amp; Encoders&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Password Generators &amp;amp; Strength Testers&lt;/strong&gt;:&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Encryption Tools&lt;/strong&gt;: Encrypt and decrypt text using the AES Encrypt/Decrypt and Advanced and legacy Jasypt Encrypt/Decrypt tools.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Hashing &amp;amp; Checksums&lt;/strong&gt; (MD5/SHA1/SHA256) and verify files with the File Checksum Calculator.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Encoders/Decoders&lt;/strong&gt;: Translate data with the Base64, URL, and HTML Encode/Decode tools.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;📝 Code, Text &amp;amp; Dev Utilities&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Code Playground&lt;/strong&gt;: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with live preview with code assist and syntax highlighting.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Code Minifiers&lt;/strong&gt;: Reduce file sizes using the JavaScript Minifier and HTML Minifier, XML minifier.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Log Parser &amp;amp; Analyzer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;File Comparison&lt;/strong&gt;: Compare two files and highlight differences.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Regex Tester &amp;amp; Highlighter&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Text Analysis&lt;/strong&gt;: Analyze text using Text Statistics, manipulate it with the String Case Converter, and inspect hidden data using the Unicode Inspector and Invisible Character Viewer.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;🛠️ Generators &amp;amp; Mock Data&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Data Generators&lt;/strong&gt;: Populate your apps using the Faker Generator, Random Data Generator, and UUID Generator.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;AI Prompt Builder&lt;/strong&gt;: Create optimized prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot(Need improvements).&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Scanners &amp;amp; Codes&lt;/strong&gt;: Generate and read codes using the QR Code Generator, QR Code Scanner, and Barcode Generator.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;🎨 Media, Files &amp;amp; Audio/Video&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;File Management&lt;/strong&gt;: Image Compression &amp;amp; Resizer, Zip/Unzip Tool, Archive Maker(.tar, .gz, .tar.gz compression). &lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Images to PDF&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Image to Base64&lt;/strong&gt;, and generate documents with the PDF/DOCX Generator.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Media Utilities&lt;/strong&gt;: Annotate screenshots  + compress with the Screenshot Annotator, create animations with the &lt;strong&gt;GIF Animated Generator&lt;/strong&gt;, and download files using the Google Drive Downloader. Create assets with the &lt;strong&gt;Icon Generator&lt;/strong&gt;, Color Picker, and Gradient Generator.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Audio &amp;amp; Video&lt;/strong&gt;: Record media natively using the Voice Recorder and Video Recorder, or translate audio using the &lt;strong&gt;Text to Speech&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;Speech to Text converters.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;⏱️ Time &amp;amp; Scheduling&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Timestamp ↔ Date Converter&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Date &amp;amp; Time Difference Calculator&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;br&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Cron Expression Builder&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Since I work on it only during weekends and holidays, progress is gradual, but the project continues to grow steadily with every release.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Feedback, suggestions, and contributions are always welcome.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Demo
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://freedevutils.github.io" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://freedevutils.github.io&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  The Comeback Story
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I built all of the tools from scratch with significant assistance from AI-powered development tools. GitHub Copilot played the primary role in code generation, contributing roughly 80% of the codebase, while ChatGPT helped  in prompt engineering, output validation and Google Gemini Pro helped with UI design ideas, enhancement, and code refinements for the advanced tools.&lt;br&gt;
now github copilot helping me in making the project multilingual.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;A small confession about this project. 😄&lt;br&gt;
I built all 65+ utilities using free-tier AI tools.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;GitHub Copilot Free.&lt;br&gt;
ChatGPT Free.&lt;br&gt;
Google Gemini Pro came bundled with my Jio SIM plan &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So before GitHub Copilot decides to revoke my coding privileges after reading this... 😅&lt;br&gt;
here is my argument- At least I'm not burning tokens teaching AI to build the thousands of clone of a falling-block game. I'm spending them building productivity tools that will be used by next generation of developers can use to solve real problems.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The current 65+ utilities are just the foundation. The next chapter is adding AI-powered capabilities and creating the developer tools of tomorrow and that too without using backend.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The reality is that AI can generate code, but it can't provide the vision, persistence, debugging, countless iterations, feature decisions, testing, documentation, and weekend hours required to turn ideas into a usable product.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The tools were free.&lt;br&gt;
The time was not.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;This project exists because of many weekends, holidays, and late-night sessions spent building something useful for the developer community. Progress is slow, but every release adds a little more value for the next developer who uses it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  My Experience with GitHub Copilot
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;GitHub Copilot has been an incredible development companion throughout this project. It helped transform ideas into working code faster, generated high-quality implementations, and assisted in overcoming countless technical challenges along the way.&lt;br&gt;
What once took hours of boilerplate coding could be accomplished in minutes, allowing more time to focus on architecture, user experience, problem-solving, and refining features.it would have taken years to build  those that I accomplished within month.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The real superpower is not AI itself—it's the combination of human imagination and AI assistance. When a developer can clearly envision something, tools like Copilot help carve that vision into reality.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For this project, Copilot wasn't just a code generator; it was the lightsaber which cut down each and every challenge into half.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;From lightsaber i realized if you are star wars fan and you were missing master yoda's wisdom see release notes there is something special added for you with every release.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://freedevutils.github.io/release-notes/" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://freedevutils.github.io/release-notes/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Enjoy tools , progress and Prosper.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fi3xkgngq4bzeqvv6j9sh.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"&gt;&lt;img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fi3xkgngq4bzeqvv6j9sh.png" alt="App Home page" width="800" height="462"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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      <title>I Built FreeDevUtils — 60+ Free In-Browser Developer Tools using github copilot and google gemini pro for developer community</title>
      <dc:creator>Pranay Mokal</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 13:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/pranaysmokal/i-built-freedevutils-60-free-in-browser-developer-tools-using-github-copilot-an-google-gemini-4je7</link>
      <guid>https://dev.to/pranaysmokal/i-built-freedevutils-60-free-in-browser-developer-tools-using-github-copilot-an-google-gemini-4je7</guid>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Hey Dev Community 👋&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I'm excited to finally share &lt;strong&gt;FreeDevUtils&lt;/strong&gt; — a big collection of &lt;strong&gt;60+ completely free advance developer tools&lt;/strong&gt; that run &lt;strong&gt;entirely in your browser&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Why I Built This
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I got tired of:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jumping between 10 different websites&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dealing with ads and trackers&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tools that require signups or send data to servers&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dealing Rate limit &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dealing with premiums&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;So I decided to create &lt;strong&gt;one single toolbox for developer community&lt;/strong&gt; with all the utilities we use in daily life, it is my non profit venture to enhance developers productivity.Think it like I am build castle for developers.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Let's not treat AI as our enemy; let's make it our ally.it can reshape and transform the whole world into better place if it is used carefully**.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  ✨ Key Highlights
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;🔥 Standout Tools&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Restify&lt;/strong&gt; — Full REST API testing tool (headers, params, body, collections, curl export)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;UML Class Diagram Builder&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Flowchart Designer&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Architecture Diagram Builder&lt;/strong&gt; and many more in line up.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Log Parser &amp;amp; Analyzer&lt;/strong&gt; — Auto-detect and analyze application logs&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;AI Prompt Builder&lt;/strong&gt; — Craft better prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor etc.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Docker Compose Visualizer&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;Subnet Calculator&lt;/strong&gt; (IPv4 &amp;amp; IPv6)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;HAR Analyzer&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Swagger/OpenAPI Viewer&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;Postman Collection Viewer&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Media &amp;amp; File Tools&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Image Compression &amp;amp; Resizer (50-80% size reduction)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Images to PDF, GIF Animator, Icon Generator&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;QR Code Generator + Scanner, Barcode Generator&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Voice &amp;amp; Video Recorder&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Zip/Unzip files client-side&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Screenshot Annotator&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Data &amp;amp; Conversion Tools&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;JSON, YAML, XML, CSV converters &amp;amp; beautifiers&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;CSV ↔ JSON, CSV → SQL script generation&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Base64, URL, HTML encode/decode&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;File Comparison tool&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other Useful Tools&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Code Playground (HTML/CSS/JS with live preview)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Regex Tester, Cron Expression Builder&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;JWT Decoder, SSL Certificate Checker&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Faker &amp;amp; Random Data Generator&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Password Generator + Strength Tester&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Timestamp converters, Text Statistics, Unicode Inspector, and many more...&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Try It Here it is developed to make developers life easy
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;👉 &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="https://freedevutils.github.io" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://freedevutils.github.io&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;All tools are &lt;strong&gt;client-side&lt;/strong&gt; — nothing is uploaded to any server.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Tech Stack
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Built with Angular and Angular material&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Fully responsive&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;github pages &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;See Credits page for all opensource libraries used &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  What's Next?
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I'm planning to keep adding more tools based on community feedback if they follow projects vision (100% client side).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Would love to hear from you:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Which tool did you find most useful?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;What tool should I add next?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Any bugs or suggestions?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Drop your feedback in the comments 👇&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Try FreeDevUtils&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;a href="https://freedevutils.github.io" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://freedevutils.github.io&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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