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Free tools for people done paying rent on their own livelihood.

Calculators and field guides that run in your browser. No accounts, no tracking, no upsell wall. Free because the first move off rented land shouldn't have a toll on it. Use one, keep what it saves you, walk away clean.

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The Tools

Pick the one that hurts most to not have a real number on. None of them hold the door open for an email address.
00MEASURE

The Judge

Paste a draft. See how your sentences actually vary, and how often four structures appear that show up far more in machine prose than in human prose. It will not tell you a machine wrote it — one sample has nothing to be unusual against, and it says so instead of guessing.

Free · runs in your browser Open →
01CALCULATOR

Gumroad Fee Calculator

Type the price you're thinking of charging. See what the platform keeps and what actually lands in your account. The answer is usually worse than the number you had in your head.

Free · local-first Open →
02COMPARE

Platform Rent Calculator

Type your monthly sales. See what you keep on Gumroad, Substack, Patreon, Lemon Squeezy, Ko-fi, Payhip, and your own checkout, side by side. Then the annual rent for staying on rented land.

Free · local-first Open →
03AUDIT

Tool Cost Killer

Tally what your SaaS stack bills you every month. You already know it's too much. Here's the number.

Free · local-first Open →
04TOOLKIT

Affiliate Toolkit

Pick the programs, track the links, get paid. Same system I run to earn on referrals without a platform between me and the money. Handed to you free.

Free · local-first Open →
05DIRECTORY

Indie Affiliate Programs Directory

Indie programs that pay you without a platform taking its cut. Searchable. None of the garbage that pays you in gift cards.

Free · curated Open →

The flywheel

Free tools, on purpose.

Filed from the operation · no checkout required

These cost nothing because the first move off rented land shouldn't have a toll on it. A free tool earns its keep the first time you use it. The newsletter keeps the line open. Everything I've built to run this thing is here when you want the rest of it.

No countdowns, no traps, no email wall. If one of these saves you an afternoon and you never come back, that's a fair trade. The gate's already open.

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