Apimanufaktur
Four small, fast, genuinely free web tools that each do one thing well — entirely in the browser, no signup, no upload, no cookies for the core function.
The challenge
Most “free” online tools upload your data, wrap one function in ads and signups, or break basic SEO. The aim was the opposite: tiny, honest, fast utilities that run entirely client-side and respect the user — while still being good enough to rank.
The approach
Four focused tools, each doing one job well and each on its own live domain:
- favicon-maker.com — a favicon generator that builds a real multi-size
.icoplus SVG, Apple-touch and Android icons in the browser (a hand-written ICO encoder on canvas) — nothing uploaded. - metatags-generator.com — an SEO meta-tag builder: title/description, Open Graph and Twitter Card tags with a live Google preview and character counters.
- og-preview.com — a social-card preview: see how a link renders on Facebook, X and LinkedIn before publishing, from tags entered by hand or fetched from a URL.
- impressumgenerator.com — a German legal-notice (Impressum) generator following § 5 DDG, for 12 legal forms, with a clear “template, not legal advice” disclaimer.
Underneath, they share the same engineering: all four are 100% client-side (no server, no data leaves the browser), cookieless for the core function, each shipped with real SEO content and guides, several fully multilingual, and all deployed as static sites on Vercel with security headers and Schema.org structured data.
The result
- Four live, useful tools that load instantly and keep the user’s data on their own machine.
- Content and structured data make them discoverable.
What this demonstrates
- Shipping polished small products end to end.
- Privacy-by-default engineering (client-side, cookieless).
- Front-end craft — a real ICO encoder, live previews.
- SEO/GEO and internationalisation at small scale.
Tech at a glance
Vanilla JS · Canvas · Client-side ICO encoder · Schema.org JSON-LD · i18n · Vercel · Security headers
