What site was that?

It is incredibly frustrating when a great website completely vanishes from your memory. I’ve been racking my brain trying to remember a specific site I used to love. It was a simple, utilitarian page of tools built by a single programmer (not GitHub, just their own independent site).

My failing brain still can't quite pull the exact name out of the archives, but in my quest to find it, I came across these fantastic single-developer toolkits and "Swiss Army Knife" utility sites that are absolutely worth bookmarking:

1. 10015.io

An all-in-one toolbox created by a single frontend developer to solve his own bookmark mess. It features a clean, unified UI covering text tools, image compressors, CSS generators, color pickers, and coding formatters.

2. Tiny-Helpers.dev

A beautifully minimalist, curated list of single-purpose developer tools. If you need a quick, no-nonsense utility to minify code, convert an SVG, or format data, this is a massive favorite.

3. CyberChef

The ultimate web app for data manipulation. It allows you to drag and drop simple "recipes" to parse text, decode Base64, clean up JSON, and convert data formats entirely within your browser.

4. TinyWow

A straightforward, free page of tools designed to solve quick digital problems—like PDF formatting, image resizing, and text extraction—without making you jump through signup hoops.

5. DevUtils.com

A brilliant collection tailored specifically for offline-first developer helpers, featuring Unix timestamp converters, JSON formatters, regex testers, and dozens of other practical utilities.

6. PineTools

A long-running favorite among developers and power users. PineTools offers hundreds of lightweight browser-based utilities for text processing, hashing, encoding, image manipulation, color conversions, random generators, date calculations, and countless other niche tasks.

7. Browserling Tools

An enormous collection of tiny web-based tools for developers. You'll find text converters, JSON utilities, Base64 encoders, URL parsers, hash generators, and countless niche helpers that do one thing exceptionally well.

8. Text Mechanic

A hidden gem for anyone who works with large amounts of text. It specializes in cleanup, sorting, deduplication, formatting, line manipulation, and batch text processing tasks that would otherwise take ages by hand.

9. MiniWebtool

One of the oldest and most extensive collections of online utilities. It contains hundreds of calculators, converters, developer helpers, random generators, text tools, and productivity shortcuts hidden behind a simple interface.

10. RapidTables Tools

A practical collection of calculators, converters, encoding tools, networking references, and engineering utilities. It has become a go-to resource for students, developers, technicians, and IT professionals alike.

"The original site I'm looking for was just a simple, no-frills page of tools hosted by one independent creator."

Over to you: Does this description sound familiar to anyone else? If you know of any other hidden-gem utility sites or think you know the exact one I'm forgetting, please drop a comment below and help me solve the mystery!

Bonus question: What are your favorite utility websites that almost nobody seems to know about? I'm always looking for more obscure gems to add to my bookmarks.

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