Developer Builds Free File Tool Platform After Frustration with Paywalled Alternatives

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A developer spent six months building iamuu, a free online platform offering over 100 image format conversions, 40-plus PDF tools, AI background removal, OCR, and digital signatures. The project was motivated by frustration with existing tools that imposed watermarks, mandatory accounts, or hidden usage limits. The platform requires no registration for basic use, applies no watermarks, and automatically deletes files after processing. It is built on a stack combining Vue 3, FastAPI, Celery, Redis, MinIO, and PostgreSQL, deployed via Docker Compose on a single server. Key technical challenges included preserving CMYK color profiles, streaming large files up to 5GB, handling HEIC and RAW formats, implementing cryptographic PDF signatures, and managing multilingual prerendering across 8,300 routes.

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