{
  "id": 1993010,
  "title": "I Built 132 Free Online Tools Because I Kept Searching for Them",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/i-built-132-free-online-tools-because-i-kept-searching-for-them",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-19T18:33:19.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/jetroni/i-built-132-free-online-tools-because-i-kept-searching-for-them-kdf"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "As a developer, I constantly end up searching for small tools to do random things. Format JSON, decode JWTs, generate UUIDs, encode URLs, compare text, convert data, and so on. I got tired of opening a different website every time, so I started building my own collection. That's CtrlTool. It currently has 132 free tools for developers and everyday tasks, with a focus on keeping them fast, simple,…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}