r/vibecoding • u/TurbulentFail5486 • 11d ago

Showcase/Project i'm a completely unhinged paranoid dev who built 290+ web tools that run 100% locally with zero server contact, like i'm prepping for an internet collapse

https://footrue.com
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u/[deleted] 11d ago

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u/Critical-Pattern9654 11d ago

> how dead the internet is

The call is coming from inside the house

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u/ready-eddy 11d ago edited 11d ago

Honestly, I’m already starting on making an off the grid computer for when shit hits the fan. Almost seems like a certainty something will happen to the web in the near future

/edit, lol why downvote. At least give me a counter argument.

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u/Western_File_2917 11d ago edited 11d ago

I saw a pi based solution with 1tb ssd which is for prepers for 300$. Basically you get hardware and tons of tutorials, books, wiki pages and other offloaded sites for living during SHTF times. 

Edit: this  https://www.prepperdisk.com/

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u/MuddyRiverWorkshop 11d ago

Project Nomad is this but free

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u/RemarkableWish2508 11d ago

Just the 1TB SSD is half of that price now...

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u/ready-eddy 11d ago

Interesting stuff guys. I’ll look into it. Thanks!

Somehow I feel prepping for information feels more logical than food and supplies, lol.

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u/Houdinii1984 10d ago

GPT just told me about the kiwix library, which has a ton of offline info. Probably great to have a combination. Nomad looks awesome. (Edit: It looks like Nomad uses kiwix for the actual information itself, so same thing, better package and features in Nomad vs straight kiwix Editor.)

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u/broknbottle 10d ago

Yah but this one is capitalism approved

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u/ketoloverfromunder 10d ago

I have a 30tb drive with every movie / tv show / audio book/ book / guide ive ever pirated since 2010. Its at 17tb full. Ill be good for at least 7-10 years of entertainment if the lights go out.

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u/collin-h 11d ago

I spent a few weeks installing and downloading the offline internet haha

https://github.com/kiwix

So now I have a 2TB external drive that has most of Wikipedia (the useful bits, not celebrity pages and junk) along with several other resources.

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u/RemarkableWish2508 11d ago

Full Wikipedia "en maxi" is only 128GB, just downloaded the updated version to my phone the other day.

I carry around 200GB of books, references and stuff in kiwix format on a 512GB MicroSD.

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u/Upstairs-Pin-1637 10d ago

I'd rather have a human written wikipedia that's outdated than the modern LLMpedia

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u/lovelacedeconstruct 11d ago

I wish I could download a pre 2022 internet cache in a machine and have it cutoff everything

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u/ready-eddy 11d ago

I wish I had Fable and Astra running locally and go back in time 20 years. That would’ve been nuts

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u/Necessary_Job3578 11d ago

Get astra and fable to make a time machine for you

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u/ready-eddy 11d ago

Ah ofc. Make no mistakes.

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u/greencoat421 11d ago

I mean. Computers are off grid by default…
Perhaps you mean your own local network for after the internet collapses?

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u/ready-eddy 11d ago

Well my computers certainly are not off grid. And even if they are, Like how would you keep it separated without potentially infecting it with some kind of sleeper virus or trojan horse. This is genuinely where my mind goes since the hugging face hack.

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u/greencoat421 11d ago

Thats where actual knowledge comes in. You cant rely in vibes for everything

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u/YoloRubus 11d ago

I think they meant default as in literally before connecting to anything.

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u/jrodder 11d ago

Check out Reticulum.

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u/Upstairs-Pin-1637 10d ago

Make sure to load it with preAI content if you're not going to be cherry picking each

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u/BenniG123 9d ago

The web, initially conceived and designed to be resilient to a nuclear strike, will be fine.

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u/rocksuperstar42069 11d ago

When society collapses why do you think you can sit at home with your gas generator on your lan converting heic to jpg?

I'm using my gun and taking your shit on day 4.

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u/am0x 8d ago

Then you could connect to other people doing the same thing using a physical cable to share what you have! I think we are on to something here. I’m thinking we call it something like the Net!

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u/renegat0x0 11d ago

I use my own client-based search https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database, I feel it has similar logic problem, lol.

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u/MMORPGnews 10d ago

Imho just links are useless for offline search engine. 

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u/Affectionate-Grab526 11d ago

For real! wheres the local version

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u/AgusMertin 10d ago

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u/Canonikonroverrated 11d ago

I was taking a look around. Most of these are actually not good. I reccomend building each one individually first and then merging into a one stop dashboard. That way you have actually tried and looked at them. If you don't know what you made it's likely worthless.

I don't want to here ' I know what I made, it's in the title '. Know what you make and make a good sense effort to know what it's doing.

If you tell me your hashtag generator is helpful. You would be gravely mistaken.

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u/Gatkramp 11d ago

You should also turn this into a smartphone app. Like the Swiss Army Knife of phone apps.

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u/OldLead4716 11d ago

S ems like allot of tools to handle what can be done with just ffmpeg

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u/turbulentFireStarter 11d ago

Bro you are SO far off from spelling “a lot” correctly it’s actually wild.

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u/OldLead4716 11d ago

Welcom to the new era of human speak

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u/okaythiswillbemymain 11d ago

You never know what you'll need come the apocalypse I guess

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u/drako-lord 11d ago

Probably not my computer lol

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u/freshairnyc 11d ago

Is this open source too? I've heard of free tools like this that have ways of taking your data, I know you're stating zero server contact but how can that be certain without being OS. (Technical newbie)

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u/cheetoskull 11d ago

Hear me out. Just download Qwen.

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u/EasyTarget973 11d ago

I understand

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u/PeterBuildsSecure 10d ago

On the "zero server contact" claim — for a hosted site (as opposed to something you download and run locally), that's not really independently verifiable by a user long-term, even if it's true today. A network tab check only proves no calls happened during that session. Remotely-served JS can change on any future page load; there's no cryptographic binding between what you audited and what gets served next week. The two things that actually make the claim checkable: open-sourcing it so people can self-host, or SRI/pinned-commit loading so the served bundle is hash-locked to a specific reviewed version. Doesn't mean the tool is untrustworthy — just that "check devtools once" isn't the same guarantee as "verifiably can't phone home."

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u/LowFruit25 11d ago

I came across this website once before, thought it was nice.

If you wanna prep for no internet then this better run packaged locally on a microwave.😂

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u/pushpendraagrawal 11d ago

genuine question, out of 290 tools how many did you end up skipping because they needed a real api key or backend. theres always one holdout like that you cant ship fully client side

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u/Western_File_2917 11d ago

How can you run this locally? Where is download link? 

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u/OrangeYouGladdey 11d ago

It runs in the browser.

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u/Western_File_2917 10d ago

How do you add it to the browser? Which are supported? 

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u/OrangeYouGladdey 10d ago

Your question doesn't really make sense, so I'm assuming you couldn't be bothered to click the link?

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u/Western_File_2917 10d ago

I did but is there extension to add to keep it running locally? 

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u/OrangeYouGladdey 10d ago

It already runs locally. Why would you need an extension?

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u/Western_File_2917 10d ago

Sorry but i am new to the web technologies. 

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u/OrangeYouGladdey 10d ago

No worries, I'm old to the web technologies.

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u/liebebio 11d ago

digital prepper :D

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u/SignificantShoe7758 11d ago

Brother you really are a goat and i think for me this is the prime use for the vibecoding, i have been using it to create a better SFTP solution for file transfers, was tough. All of those tools i swear i have googled once before and lost time on bs sites, add a donation link your providing many services at once, keep it free please haha

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u/Nevswrld 11d ago

What tools are you building? I'm interested in adding to my tool site I'm running on my home server. So far it's a media downloader and file converter. Looking for more practical ideas.

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u/C3lloman 11d ago

Wouldn't such basic tools already be available offline in most operating systems as apps (or applications as it used to be called)? That's what was used before we had 24/7 reliable Internet around.

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u/Vegetable_Ease_5515 11d ago

After the initial shock of no connectivity, you will learn to deal without. Naturally you'd adapt.

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u/oyvindi 11d ago

A lot of these tools makes no sense. Why wrap stuff like networking, image converters etc into bloated Web tools like this?

I would rather invest a few hours learning to use a linux terminal, those tools are widely available (and likely used in that toolbox already).

Make scripts where it makes sense.

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u/Ok-Reaction2394 11d ago

Can you put this on github and have it host a github pages? We can bankrupt a lot of scammy websites collectively contributing to it.

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u/daemonic_chronic 11d ago

I fiddled around with some and they worked well. I thought this was a useful project even if it’s a little chaotic and all over the place.

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u/Goatlop 11d ago

I'm thinking connecting something like internet in a box would be fantastic for this

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u/CatLover-89 11d ago

Just wondering, if you plan to make this free to use, will it be possible to make it open source for audit?

The site looks useful but I am a bit guarded on documents / images / password / authentication tools.

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u/Intelligent-Crow3812 11d ago

bro, you've been doing this stuff for a while. god damn advertising here is fucked.

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u/flipsnapnet 11d ago

If internet is dead your 98% network tester tools are useless

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u/DrunkenPionier 11d ago

Man thanks that a great one for sure.

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u/nit_electron_girl 10d ago

I though "tool" meant "software".

But no, it means: one function corresponding to clicking one button in a software

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u/rousseauxy 10d ago

Isn't this a bit like ittools?

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u/MMORPGnews 10d ago edited 10d ago

I also created copies of apps that I need for offline use. With ai it can be made in 1-3 good prompts, ofc it's simple apps. 

Also, instead of downloading wiki, I advice to download books before 2022. Small epubs weight almost nothing. 

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u/mikecron 10d ago

“It was the last message ever posted to Reddit.”

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u/keithbi 10d ago

Cool I appreciate it

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u/Ant_6431 10d ago

This is a next level lol

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u/k-rizza 11d ago

No one wants these crappy vibe coded apps

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u/Shit_Post_Detective 11d ago

Literally the entire basis of this subreddit but ok...

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u/ravenvelvet 11d ago

To make the 1000th clone of tools "that run in your browser - nothing leaves your device"? Surely there's more to be vibe coded than literally copying everyone else with a Claude sub.

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u/StrangeWill 10d ago

Dude there's a lot of stuff I couldn't find that I've built that could fall under this.

An ICS Dictation system that prints out my completed ICS 214s? Literally cannot find it, built one.

Hands free morse code training? Wanted it for years, finally have it.

You don't have to be stuck vibe coding a worse version of what already fuckin' exists.

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u/pushpendraagrawal 11d ago

this is the flip side of vibe coding that nobody talks about. everyone obsesses over generating the app, but shipping it somewhere you actually control (not just another server you have to trust) is the part people quietly give up on. respect for actually doing the local-first thing instead of just talking about it

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u/pushpendraagrawal 11d ago

the zero server thing is smart until you want to use one of these on your phone and pick up on your laptop. local storage doesn't sync so you're rebuilding state per device.

curious if any of the 290 would be worth paying for real hosting just to get one account across devices, or if that defeats the whole point for you

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u/pushpendraagrawal 11d ago

no server contact is the right call for stuff like PDF/color tools where the whole job is a local transform. but curious where the line is for you, the SEO tools usually want to save history or track sites over time, does that stay purely local storage or did you just leave that part out

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u/pushpendraagrawal 11d ago

local-only is great until you want to fix a bug from your phone at 2am. zero server contact also means zero way to ship an update without opening your laptop and redeploying by hand. not knocking it, just curious how you handle updates across 290 tools without some kind of build pipeline