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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