Hello everyone! Today I want to share a fun side project I recently made.
I always see people on TikTok and Instagram using weird cursed text, cute bio fonts. I wanted to build a small website with all these tools. But when I searched for tutorials, most of them required paid APIs, backend servers, or complex databases.
I wanted to keep it 100% free to host and super fast. So I decided to build it using only Frontend magic.
Here is what I built: My Gen Z Tools - a collection of weirdly useful calculators and text generators.
Instead of calling a font API, I just wrote a vanilla JavaScript script that maps normal alphabet letters to Unicode symbols. It runs instantly inside the browser.
I used math algorithms and local JS arrays. When a user types two names, it calculates a hash based on the strings and gives a consistent Vibe Score, server processing needed!
Building this taught me that you don't always need heavy backends for fun, viral tools. Browsers are very powerful now.
I am still learning SEO and trying to get some organic traffic. You can try the tools here: My Gen Z Tools.
If you have any feedback on my UI or code structure, please let me know in the comments. Would love to hear from experienced devs!
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