Handpicked No-Signup Tools

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on news.ycombinator.com

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  • SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
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  • excalidraw

    Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams

  • jspaint

    🎨 Classic MS Paint, REVIVED + ✨Extras

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • rembg

    Rembg is a tool to remove images background

  • flameshot

    Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:

  • I mostly need to do that kind of thing on screenshots. The Flameshot app has worked really well for taking screenshots and annotating them.

    https://flameshot.org/

  • drawio-desktop

    Official electron build of draw.io

  • Although it's got some nice things listed, the site seems to be missing some of the best tools out there. I recommend Diagrams.net [1] for creating diagrams. I use it as my primary diagramming tool.

    [1] https://www.diagrams.net/

  • learndb

    Curated learning resources with topics, formats, difficulty levels, expert reviews and metadata tags

  • A couple of my tools that don't require signup:

    - Grapher (a visual editor for graph datasets with features like nested nodes, custom attributes on nodes and edges, and export in Cytoscape JSON or SVG format. Accessible at: https://grapherx.netlify.app/

    - LearnDB (A curated collection of links to educational resources organized by topics, formats, reviews and other tags). Accessible at: https://learndb.vercel.app/

  • mindwendel

    Create a challenge. Ready? Brainstorm. mindwendel helps you to easily brainstorm and upvote ideas and thoughts within your team.

  • We’ve put mindwendel[0] out for free - no tracking, no ads, no data harvesting.

    It’s a tool to brainstorm and vote on ideas.

    We did so because we are using it ourselves and the resource usage is so low it doesn’t cost us more to share it with others.

    [0] https://www.mindwendel.com/

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • CyberChef

    The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - a web app for encryption, encoding, compression and data analysis

  • Those are valid concerns and it's smart to think about those things. I had the same thoughts initially.

    Using your browser developer tools, you can see what HTTP requests it makes. It's all just loading code.

    Also, you can use a local copy of it to ensure you're not getting a hacked/targeted version that's different between times that you use it. I use a local copy. You can find a downloadable zip file in the releases section: https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/releases

    You could also build it from the source, but I haven't bothered to set that up.

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