A public experiment: AI said Build tools + SEO + AdSense = Income 💰
A privacy-first, multi-language online tools website built in one week with AI. An indie hacker experiment in building useful utilities that run entirely in your browser.
🌐 Live Site: https://victoryhub.cc/
📊 Follow the Experiment: @victorymakes on X
🚀 Product Hunt: VictoryHub
VictoryHub is a collection of free, privacy-focused online tools for developers, designers, and professionals. Every tool runs completely client-side in your browser—no data ever leaves your device.
This project started as an experiment to test a popular indie hacker hypothesis:
"Can you build a sustainable side income by creating utility tools, optimizing for SEO, and monetizing with AdSense?"
The result? A fully responsive, SEO-optimized, multi-language tool site with 35+ utilities built and launched solo in one week, with the help of AI.
- No server uploads — all processing happens in your browser
- No tracking — your data never leaves your device
- No accounts required — just open and use
Support for 15 languages with full i18n:
- 🇬🇧 English
- 🇯🇵 Japanese
- 🇰🇷 Korean
- 🇨🇳 Chinese
- 🇩🇪 German
- 🇫🇷 French
- 🇪🇸 Spanish
- 🇷🇺 Russian
- 🇳🇱 Dutch
- 🇳🇴 Norwegian
- 🇸🇪 Swedish
- 🇫🇮 Finnish
- 🇩🇰 Danish
- 🇵🇹 Portuguese
- 🇮🇹 Italian
Development Tools:
- UUID Generator
- Cron Expression Generator
- Timestamp Converter
- URL Encoder/Decoder
- Base64 Encoder/Decoder
- JSON/XML/YAML/TOML Converters
- CSV to JSON Converter
- Regex Tester
- And more...
Privacy & Safety:
- Password Generator
- Password Strength Checker
- URL Tracker Remover
- What's My IP
- Text Redactor
Media & Image:
- Image Compressor
- Image Converter (JPEG/PNG/WebP)
- Image Resizer
- Image to Black & White
- EXIF Viewer
- Image Color Picker
- Base64 Image Converter
- QR Code Generator
- Barcode Generator
Calculators & Utilities:
- BMI Calculator
- BMR Calculator
- Carbon Footprint Calculator
- Random Picker
- ASCII Art Generator
- Text Favicon Generator
Monitoring:
- Website Status Monitor
- Library Mirror Monitors (Libgen & Z-Library)
Built for speed, SEO, and zero server costs:
- Framework: Next.js 15 (App Router)
- Deployment: Vercel
- Styling: Tailwind CSS
- UI Components: shadcn/ui
- Internationalization: next-intl
- Analytics: Vercel Analytics + Speed Insights
- Development: GitHub Copilot + Claude (AI pair programming)
- CI/CD: GitHub → Vercel (automatic deployments)
- ✅ App Router = built-in layouts, metadata, routing by locale
- ✅ Vercel = edge-deployed, global CDN, automatic deployments
- ✅ No backend, no database, no server costs = pure utility delivery
- ✅ Fully static where possible = maximum performance
- ✅ TypeScript = type safety throughout
- Node.js 18+
- npm, yarn, pnpm, or bun
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/victorymakes/tools.git
cd tools
# Install dependencies
npm install
# Run pre-build scripts (generates metadata, sitemap, robots.txt)
npm run pre-build
# Start the development server
npm run devOpen http://localhost:3000 to see the site.
npm run dev # Start development server with pre-build
npm run build # Build for production with pre-build
npm start # Start production server
npm run pre-build # Run metadata generation, sitemap, and robots.txt
npm run lint # Run ESLint
npm run format # Format code with Prettiertools/
├── src/
│ ├── app/ # Next.js App Router pages
│ │ └── [locale]/ # Localized routes
│ ├── components/ # React components
│ │ ├── tool/ # 35+ individual tool components
│ │ ├── blog/ # Blog components
│ │ ├── common/ # Shared UI components
│ │ └── ui/ # shadcn/ui components
│ ├── i18n/ # Internationalization config
│ ├── lib/ # Utility functions
│ ├── service/ # Data services
│ └── types/ # TypeScript types
├── data/
│ ├── db/ # Tool & category data (JSON)
│ └── cms/ # Blog posts (MDX)
├── messages/ # i18n translation files
├── public/ # Static assets
└── scripts/ # Build scripts
"AI is not replacing you, it's replacing the boring parts."
Used for real-time code completion:
- Form inputs and state handlers
- Utility functions (UUID generation, encoding, etc.)
- Boilerplate page components
- Blog post templates
Used as an agent-style assistant for:
- "How do I compress an image client-side in the browser?"
- "What's the best way to parse cron strings into readable text?"
- "Can you translate this i18n file into Japanese and Korean?"
- Writing FAQs, blog posts, and meta descriptions
- Generating JSON-LD schemas for SEO
Result: Solo developer productivity increased 10x.
- ✅ Server-side rendering (SSR) for dynamic content
- ✅ Static generation for tool pages
- ✅ Automatic sitemap generation
- ✅ Structured data (JSON-LD) for rich snippets
- ✅ Optimized meta tags per language
- ✅ Semantic HTML with proper heading hierarchy
- ✅ Fast page loads (<1s) with edge deployment
- All base text in
en.json - AI-assisted translation to 14 additional languages
- Manual review for quality and cultural appropriateness
- URL structure:
/{locale}/tools/{tool-slug} - Automatic language detection with manual override
The site includes a built-in blog system using MDX:
- Markdown + React components
- Multi-language support
- Category and tag filtering
- SEO-optimized article pages
- Related posts recommendations
Current topics:
- Building and launching the site
- Privacy and online safety
- Tool tutorials and use cases
- Indie hacker experiments
- Privacy First — No tracking, no data collection, no servers
- Fast & Lightweight — Minimal JavaScript, optimized assets
- Accessible — WCAG compliant, keyboard navigation, screen reader friendly
- Mobile-First — Fully responsive, works on any device
- Dark Mode — Easy on the eyes, system preference aware
This is an ongoing experiment in:
- Building in public — Sharing the journey on X/Twitter
- SEO effectiveness — Can good tools + proper SEO = organic traffic?
- Monetization — Testing AdSense, affiliates, and other revenue models
- AI-assisted development — How much can one person build with AI help?
Follow along at @victorymakes for updates!
Contributions are welcome! Whether it's:
- 🐛 Bug fixes
- ✨ New tool ideas
- 🌍 Translation improvements
- 📝 Documentation updates
Feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.
This project is open source and available under the MIT License.
- Built with Next.js and shadcn/ui
- Deployed on Vercel
- AI assistance from GitHub Copilot
- Icons from Lucide
Made with ❤️ by @victorymakes
Building useful tools, one experiment at a time.