ToolScart

thereal1 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:19:11 +0000

8 Months Ago I Barely Had a Website. Now I Built ToolScart.

A little over 8 months ago, ToolScart was just a small experiment.

It had:

an HTML form builder
a CSS button generator
a color picker

That was basically it.

Today, ToolScart has become something completely different.

What ToolScart Is

ToolScart is a collection of developer tools that run directly in the browser.

Currently it has 22 tools covering things like:

JSON
data conversion
formatters
encoding/decoding
developer utilities

What Changed

The biggest change wasn't just adding more tools.

I started learning how an actual website works.

Domains and DNS

I learned what a domain actually is, how DNS works, and how to connect a custom domain to a website.

GitHub

The source code is now publicly available on GitHub.

I also learned how important proper file organization and version control are.

SEO

This was one of the biggest things I learned.

I discovered that making a website isn't just about writing HTML and CSS.

I learned about:

sitemap.xml
robots.txt
search indexing
metadata
how search engines discover pages

And eventually, ToolScart started appearing in Google search results.

That was honestly one of the coolest moments of the project.

Privacy

Another thing I cared about was keeping the tools simple and private.

ToolScart doesn't need third-party trackers to work.

The tools run client-side in the user's browser, and files don't need to be uploaded to a server just to use a converter or formatter.

What AI Taught Me

I also learned something I didn't expect:

AI-generated code still needs to be checked.

When you're building a website with AI, it's really easy to accept code because it looks correct.

But a button can be broken.

A link can point to the wrong page.

A script can behave differently than expected.

Something can look perfect while being completely wrong underneath.

So I started checking everything instead of blindly trusting the generated code.

What I Learned

ToolScart taught me much more than HTML and CSS.

I learned about:

domains
DNS
deployment
SEO
file organization
privacy
website structure
debugging
and actually checking my own work

And I learned most of this by just trying things.

If You're Thinking About Building Something

You don't need to know everything before you start.

I definitely didn't.

ToolScart started as a very basic website and slowly turned into something much bigger because I kept adding things and learning along the way.

If you have an idea for a website, start with the simplest version.

You can learn the rest while building it.

Try ToolScart

If you want to see what I built:

check it out on ToolScart

source code on GitHub

if you saw the project worth it, a star on github won't effect

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