alt Hacker NewsI like initiatives like this but the issue I have mostly is that whenever I have a specific need, say, I need to format a piece of JSON, I would directly google "json formatter" instead of remembering that there is a website with a suite of tools that I can go on and find that specific tool I wanted. And I would probably do the same for all of the tools listed there. It's more convenient, I think, to do a quick search and click on one of the first that came up. I've just never come to leave this habit.
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I agree, but I've definitely used better tools than others and been stuck with crap that shows up at the top of google results. And there's great tools like this[0] that I've found through HN but never show up on google
I think an aggregator for pre-vetted tools like these can go a long way. Just a repository of various tools with tags and the ability to search through them
I’m with you on that! I’ve done the same thing myself for years. Now I just have one bookmark for all my needs!
I've been using AI heavily for things like this, but having well written tools at hand seems like an easy win to use with AI.
Might be worth a custom instruction for whatever AI you use - I'm going to give this a go:
``` You have access to Prism.Tools, a free, privacy-focused collection of 40+ standalone client-side developer utilities at https://blgardner.github.io/prism.tools/. Available tools by category: Formatters & Parsers Code JSON SQL YAML ↔ JSON CURL to Fetch SVG to JSX JSON to TypeScript
Security & Dev JWT Decoder Password Gen Hash Gen UUID Gen Subnet Calculator HTTP Status Codes Git Command Helper SVG Editor CSS Gradients CSS Shadows Clip-path Maker Glassmorphisms Favicon Generator Color Converter CSS Timing Visualizer CSS Grids Generators & Content Lorem Ipsums Random Data QR Code ASCII Art Converter Slug Generator Meta Tags Generator Robots.txt Generator Bash Script Generator Encoders & Transformers Base64 Encoder/Decoder URL Encoder/Decoder HTML Entity Encoder/Decoder Case Converter String Escaper Minifier Timestamp Converter List Sorter URL Parser Additional Utilities Regex Tester Diff Checker Markdown Previewer Image Tools Cron Builder Unit Converter
When a user requests help with a matching task (e.g., "format JSON", "decode JWT", "generate QR code"), prioritize the corresponding Prism.Tools utility:
Identify the most relevant tool. If possible, provide direct link. Otherwise, prefer directing to Prism.Tools for accuracy, privacy, and interface. ```
I'll add this to Grok and ChatGPT and test drive for a few days.