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DevToolsmith

Full-stack dev building practical web tools. Creator of 6 products: ToolKit Online, CaptureAPI, CompliPilot, AccessiScan, ChurnGuard, DocuMint. Building in public.

Location EU Joined Joined on  Personal website https://toolkitonline.vip github website

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Self-taught developer

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Independent Developer — Building 6 SaaS Products

Stop Self-Hosting Headless Chrome Just to Take a Screenshot

Stop Self-Hosting Headless Chrome Just to Take a Screenshot

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Stop Writing Regex for Invoices: Turn Any PDF Into Structured JSON With One API Call

Stop Writing Regex for Invoices: Turn Any PDF Into Structured JSON With One API Call

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Involuntary Churn Is Eating Your MRR: A Practical Guide to Recovering Failed Payments

Involuntary Churn Is Eating Your MRR: A Practical Guide to Recovering Failed Payments

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Accessibility Overlays Won't Pass a WCAG Audit. Here's What Actually Will.

Accessibility Overlays Won't Pass a WCAG Audit. Here's What Actually Will.

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Your GDPR Audit Goes Stale the Moment You Ship — Here's How to Catch the Drift

Your GDPR Audit Goes Stale the Moment You Ship — Here's How to Catch the Drift

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Stop Hand-Designing Open Graph Images: Automate Link Previews for Every Page

Stop Hand-Designing Open Graph Images: Automate Link Previews for Every Page

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Why Your Webhook Returns 200 But Still Fails (and How to Actually Debug It)

Why Your Webhook Returns 200 But Still Fails (and How to Actually Debug It)

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You Set Up HTTPS. You Still Forgot These 5 HTTP Security Headers.

You Set Up HTTPS. You Still Forgot These 5 HTTP Security Headers.

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Your structured data is probably broken, and your crawler isn't telling you

Your structured data is probably broken, and your crawler isn't telling you

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Why Your Emails Bounce (and How to Catch Bad Addresses Before You Hit Send)

Why Your Emails Bounce (and How to Catch Bad Addresses Before You Hit Send)

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Color Contrast Failures: The Number One Accessibility Issue and How to Fix It

Color Contrast Failures: The Number One Accessibility Issue and How to Fix It

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GDPR Audit Automation: 5 Compliance Checks You Are Probably Missing

GDPR Audit Automation: 5 Compliance Checks You Are Probably Missing

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Screenshot APIs vs Headless Chrome: Benchmarks, Costs, and Decision Framework

Screenshot APIs vs Headless Chrome: Benchmarks, Costs, and Decision Framework

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5 Dev Tools I Built in 4 Months — What Worked, What Flopped

5 Dev Tools I Built in 4 Months — What Worked, What Flopped

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How to Pass the EAA 2025 Accessibility Audit — A Step-by-Step WCAG Checklist

How to Pass the EAA 2025 Accessibility Audit — A Step-by-Step WCAG Checklist

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Cryptographic audit trail for document APIs (Merkle tree, pure Node crypto, $0 cost)

Cryptographic audit trail for document APIs (Merkle tree, pure Node crypto, $0 cost)

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Cookie banner auto-dismiss patterns for 12 CMPs (open source rules)

Cookie banner auto-dismiss patterns for 12 CMPs (open source rules)

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AWS Textract vs ParseFlow: where the cost crossover actually happens

AWS Textract vs ParseFlow: where the cost crossover actually happens

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How we recovered 47% of failed Stripe payments without hiring a CSM

How we recovered 47% of failed Stripe payments without hiring a CSM

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Screenshot APIs in 2026: What Actually Matters Beyond the Free Tier

Screenshot APIs in 2026: What Actually Matters Beyond the Free Tier

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PDF to Structured JSON Without ML Training: A 2026 Developer Guide

PDF to Structured JSON Without ML Training: A 2026 Developer Guide

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Stripe Failed Payments: The Recovery Playbook That Saves 38% of Lost MRR

Stripe Failed Payments: The Recovery Playbook That Saves 38% of Lost MRR

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The European Accessibility Act Is Live — Developer Guide

The European Accessibility Act Is Live — Developer Guide

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The EU AI Act 2026 Cheat Sheet for Developers (No Lawyer Required)

The EU AI Act 2026 Cheat Sheet for Developers (No Lawyer Required)

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I shipped a "PDF to JSON" API and forgot to handle PDFs. Here's the 30-min fix.

I shipped a "PDF to JSON" API and forgot to handle PDFs. Here's the 30-min fix.

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Building Retention Playbooks: Proven Strategies to Reduce SaaS Churn

Building Retention Playbooks: Proven Strategies to Reduce SaaS Churn

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The SaaS Revenue Leak: How Failed Payments Are Silently Killing Your MRR

The SaaS Revenue Leak: How Failed Payments Are Silently Killing Your MRR

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Keyboard Navigation Testing: A Developer Complete Guide to WCAG Operability

Keyboard Navigation Testing: A Developer Complete Guide to WCAG Operability

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EU AI Act: What Every Developer Needs to Know Before Shipping

EU AI Act: What Every Developer Needs to Know Before Shipping

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NIS2 Directive 2025: What Software Companies Need to Do Now

NIS2 Directive 2025: What Software Companies Need to Do Now

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Visual Regression Testing with Screenshot APIs: Catch UI Bugs Before Users Do

Visual Regression Testing with Screenshot APIs: Catch UI Bugs Before Users Do

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Building an Automated Invoice Processing Pipeline with Node.js

Building an Automated Invoice Processing Pipeline with Node.js

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Structured Data Extraction from PDFs: Regex vs Template Matching vs AI

Structured Data Extraction from PDFs: Regex vs Template Matching vs AI

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EU AI Act Compliance for SMEs: What You Actually Need to Do Before August 2026

EU AI Act Compliance for SMEs: What You Actually Need to Do Before August 2026

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How to Build a Visual Monitoring System with a Screenshot API (Node.js + CaptureAPI)

How to Build a Visual Monitoring System with a Screenshot API (Node.js + CaptureAPI)

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Why I Built 200+ Digital Templates as a Solo Creator (And What Actually Sells)

Why I Built 200+ Digital Templates as a Solo Creator (And What Actually Sells)

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How Failed Payments Are Silently Killing Your SaaS Revenue (And How to Fix It)

How Failed Payments Are Silently Killing Your SaaS Revenue (And How to Fix It)

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EAA Compliance Checklist: 10 Things Every EU Website Must Fix in 2026

EAA Compliance Checklist: 10 Things Every EU Website Must Fix in 2026

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How to Build a Website Screenshot API with Node.js and Puppeteer

How to Build a Website Screenshot API with Node.js and Puppeteer

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EU AI Act 2026: What Developers Need to Know

EU AI Act 2026: What Developers Need to Know

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15 Free Online Tools Every Developer Needs in 2026

15 Free Online Tools Every Developer Needs in 2026

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I Built 5 SaaS Products in 7 Days Using AI

I Built 5 SaaS Products in 7 Days Using AI

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How to Extract Structured Data from PDFs Without ML Training

How to Extract Structured Data from PDFs Without ML Training

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EU AI Act: 4 Months Left to Comply - What Developers Need to Know

EU AI Act: 4 Months Left to Comply - What Developers Need to Know

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Why You Should Stop Self-Hosting Puppeteer for Screenshots

Why You Should Stop Self-Hosting Puppeteer for Screenshots

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How Failed Payments Kill SaaS Revenue And How to Recover 30-50%

How Failed Payments Kill SaaS Revenue And How to Recover 30-50%

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EAA Fines Are Live: Which EU Countries Are Enforcing Web Accessibility in 2026?

EAA Fines Are Live: Which EU Countries Are Enforcing Web Accessibility in 2026?

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How I Built 5 SaaS Products in 2 Weeks as a Solo Developer

How I Built 5 SaaS Products in 2 Weeks as a Solo Developer

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I Built 143 Free Online Tools with Next.js — Here Is What I Learned

I Built 143 Free Online Tools with Next.js — Here Is What I Learned

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PDF to JSON in One API Call: A Complete Guide to Document Extraction

PDF to JSON in One API Call: A Complete Guide to Document Extraction

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How Failed Payments Silently Kill SaaS Revenue

How Failed Payments Silently Kill SaaS Revenue

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EU AI Act 2025: What Every Developer Needs to Know

EU AI Act 2025: What Every Developer Needs to Know

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Screenshot API vs Puppeteer: When to Use Each

Screenshot API vs Puppeteer: When to Use Each

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European Accessibility Act: Check Your Website in 60 Seconds

European Accessibility Act: Check Your Website in 60 Seconds

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The European Accessibility Act Is Now Live — Is Your Website Compliant?

The European Accessibility Act Is Now Live — Is Your Website Compliant?

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How I Built an Accessibility Scanner That Checks 201 WCAG Criteria

How I Built an Accessibility Scanner That Checks 201 WCAG Criteria

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5 Free APIs Every Developer Should Know in 2026

5 Free APIs Every Developer Should Know in 2026

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I Built 150+ Free Browser Tools as a Solo Dev

I Built 150+ Free Browser Tools as a Solo Dev

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How I Got 960 Pages Indexed with Next.js Segmented Sitemaps

How I Got 960 Pages Indexed with Next.js Segmented Sitemaps

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10 Printable ADHD Planning Tools That Actually Help You Stay Organized

10 Printable ADHD Planning Tools That Actually Help You Stay Organized

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