User types "android" into your search box. That's 7 API calls if you wired it the way I did the first time. A few months later I shipped a pagination bug where every infinite-scroll fetch flashed a full-screen loader for half a second. And then there was the Settings screen that needed to refresh the Dashboard when the user changed theme — but Settings couldn't import Dashboard without a circular
April is one of those months where the tool discovery inbox fills up faster than usual. Partly it's spring project energy, partly it's that the no-account tools space keeps expanding in genuinely interesting directions. This month's picks share a pattern: they're not stripped-down versions of paid products. They're tools where removing the account requirement made them better — faster to access, s