Who is behind this site?

Over the years I have used dozens of online tools daily — JSON formatters, regex testers, converters, validators. Most of them are either cluttered with ads, slow to load, or send your data to a server somewhere you have no control over.

So I built my own. Every tool on AaronBytes runs entirely in your browser. Your data never leaves your machine. There is no backend processing your code, no database storing your inputs, nothing like that. What you paste here stays here.

I built this site in my spare time, alongside my regular job as a developer. Every tool is something I actually use myself. If it is on this site, it is because I needed it and could not find a clean, no-fuss version anywhere else.

What is AaronBytes?

AaronBytes is a free developer tools site. The goal is simple — give developers fast, private, no-login tools they can use without friction. Everything is built with plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No frameworks, no bloat, no tracking scripts. Just fast, useful tools that load instantly and work offline once cached.

Alongside the tools, I publish practical guides and tutorials on topics I deal with daily — JavaScript, JSON, APIs, web development, and general programming concepts. These are written the way I wish tutorials had been written when I was learning: direct, honest, with real examples and no filler.

Why is everything free?

Because the best tools I learned from were free. Stack Overflow, MDN, free tutorials, open source projects — all of it was free and it changed my life. I am not trying to build a SaaS empire here. I just want to build useful things and put them on the internet.

The site runs on simple hosting and earns a small amount through non-intrusive ads, which keeps the lights on without charging you anything. Every tool will always be free. That is not going to change.

What we stand for

The honest story behind this site

I have been writing code professionally for over 10 years. In that time I have worked across different stacks, debugged thousands of issues, and learned most of what I know by building real things and breaking them repeatedly.

I started AaronBytes because I was tired of opening five different tabs to do basic things — format some JSON, test a regex, decode a JWT. Every tool I found was either covered in ads, required me to create an account, or was sending my data somewhere I did not want it to go.

So I built what I wanted to use. A clean set of tools, fast, private, free. Then I started writing about what I was building — the concepts behind the tools, the mistakes I had made, the things I had learned. And that became the blog.

It is still just me, building this in my spare time from the Philippines. No team, no investor, no roadmap deck. Just code, a text editor, and a list of tools I still want to build.