Puffin Tools – Free WebAssembly tools in the browser

Hi! I wanted to share my little "adventure" that I had in the past ~2 weeks. Basically, I got tired of constant thinking and I decided to build something, anything.

By accident I learned about thing called WebAssembly (basically you can execute pretty complicated programs locally in the browser without sending anything anywhere) so I immediately assumed that it could be used for a set of small, private tools.

Usually I am building with Python, Django, PostgreSQL, hosting it on PythonAnywhere. So this time I decided that I will step out of my comfort zone even further! So I went with: - Rust (for tools that will be compiled to WebAssembly) - Zola (static site generator since I don't need anything "dynamic") - AWS S3 + AWS CloudFront (for hosting this static website) (I even used AWS to generate my SSL certificate)

Let me know what you think, and of course if I can already sell my website for million dollars :D

Cheers!

Really this should either be:

a show HN "free image and pdf compression in the browser",

or a commentary on your approach and experience of using webassembly.

That is, is it the utility or the technology. At the moment it is neither.