May 2026: NoSend Tools launch and the first 100 tools
NoSend Tools launched in May 2026. Following the actual commit log, here's what got built in the first three weeks and how the architectural choices played out.
Launch (May 12)
The repository's first commit was at 2026-05-12 09:11, and a voice recorder (voice-rec) landed the same morning as the first real tool. Same day: migration to Astro SSG (10:07), Japanese / English i18n (10:23), and the Cloudflare Workers Static Assets deploy pipeline (10:28).
The core design — "browser recording = just call MediaRecorder" — was locked in from voice-rec onward. Take the stream from getUserMedia, encode WAV / MP3 in an AudioContext, never define a server-side path for the audio data. Every later tool inherited the same rule.
First SEO / AdSense / JSON-LD plumbing (May 14–15)
May 14 added the howTo / FAQ / JSON-LD template and the first SEO-targeting tool (json-format). May 15 18:18 wired in Google AdSense — no ads were running yet at that point, but the tag was now in the page.
Whether "don't transmit user data" and "monetise via ads" can coexist is something I've thought through deliberately. The ad tag does not have a code path for sending the actual user input out (currently the script is gated behind `PUBLIC_ADSENSE_ENABLED` and stays off until AdSense approval).
Switching to glob auto-registration (May 16)
Once the tool count crossed 30, hand-maintaining a `registry.ts` started to wear. The May 16 15:32 commit switched to collecting `src/tools/<category>/<slug>/meta.ts` via `import.meta.glob`. After that, "add a tool" became "add a folder."
Same day at 15:52, the home page split into a category landing layout plus a dedicated search page, with each category rendered through `getToolsByCategory`. This was prep work for a frontend that does not collapse as the tool count grows — the same structure should hold for the thousands-of-tools scale.
Categories fanned out (May 17–31)
From May 17 onward the categories diversified rapidly: developer tools (cron-next / number-base / slug-generate / lorem-ipsum), PDF (extract-text / page-numbers / watermark), images (color-picker / pixelate / collage / to-ascii), Japanese text processing (four converters added at once on May 16), and Japan-specific finance / tax tools (consumption-tax-jp / loan-calc on May 22).
The site's long-tail policy — build it even if demand is unclear — means anything that fits the browser-only constraint and has discoverable structured data eventually becomes a tool. By month-end about 100 tools were registered, and the auto-registration architecture paid off in obvious ways.