About bugsTobuild
The problem it solves
The tools for these jobs exist, and most of them are unpleasant. You search for “json formatter”, land on a page covered in advertising, wait for it to settle, paste in an API response that probably contains a credential, and hope. The tool works. You have no idea where your data went.
The objection is not aesthetic. Pasting a production payload into an unknown server is a real risk that people take daily because the alternative is slower. bugsTobuild exists to make the careful option also the fast one.
How it works
All 17 published tools process what you paste on your own device, using JavaScript in the page. Nothing is uploaded to a bugsTobuild server, because there is no server-side endpoint for tool content. You can confirm this from your browser’s network inspector while a tool is running.
That is a design constraint rather than a policy: a tool that never receives your data cannot leak it, lose it or be compelled to hand it over. Where a future tool genuinely needs a server — very large files, or something a browser cannot do — the page will say so plainly before you use it, and the privacy policy will describe what is sent.
Who it is for
Developers, mostly — the JSON and encoding tools are aimed squarely at people working with APIs and configuration. The text tools are for anyone who works with words: counting them, sorting them, stripping the invisible characters a word processor leaves behind.
No account is required, nothing is saved, and every tool works the same whether you use it once or every day.
What is here today
17 tools across 3 categories:
More are planned, including categories that are visible on the site as planned rather than pretended into existence. A tool ships when it is good enough to trust, which is the only schedule worth having.
How it is built
Four things decide most of the design, and they are worth stating because they explain the parts that look unusual:
Speed is a feature. Pages are pre-rendered and the tools are plain JavaScript. A tool that takes three seconds to become usable has already lost to the terminal.
Privacy is architecture, not a promise. Processing happens on your device because that removes the risk rather than managing it.
Advertising stays out of the way. The site is intended to be supported by advertising, and the places an advertisement can appear are fixed in advance: above a tool, after it, below a list of cards. Never between your input and your result, never disguised as a button.
Say what is true, including when it is unflattering. Tools that are not built yet are marked as such. Measurement, when it is switched on, is described event by event. Legal pages carry visible notes where a fact has not been settled instead of a plausible guess.
Where it is going
More tools, in the categories already marked as planned. Optional paid plans for people who need larger inputs, saved work and history — the pricing page describes what is intended, and nothing can be bought today.
The free tools stay free. That is the intention behind the advertising, and it is stated here so it can be held against us later.
Start somewhere
The catalogue is the best way in — everything is one page away, and nothing needs an account.