timestamp: 2026-06-20
tags: [architecture, tools, roadmap]
Tool categories roadmap — Tier 1 + Tier 2 + anti-list
15 tool subdomains: 8 Tier 1 ship day 1' + 7 Tier 2 (stub day 1, fill in later). Tier 3 is explicitly skipped. Anti-list captures categories deliberately rejected (URL shorteners, AI image gen, etc.).
Tool categories roadmap — Tier 1 + Tier 2 + anti-list
The decision
15 tool subdomains, grouped by input modality. Tier 1 ships with working tools day 1; Tier 2 ships as stubs day 1 and fills in over weeks. Tier 3 is skipped entirely.
Tier 1 — ship working tools day 1 (8 subdomains)
Modality groups:
| Modality | Subdomains | Why Tier 1 |
|---|---|---|
| Files | pdf-site (pdf.oriz.in), image-site (image.oriz.in), data-site (data.oriz.in) | Highest search volume; PDF + image already have working tools to migrate. |
| Text | text-site (text.oriz.in), dev-site (dev.oriz.in) | Cheap to build, fast to ship, very recruiter-readable. |
| Numbers | finance-site (finance.oriz.in), convert-site (convert.oriz.in) | Finance has working tools to migrate. Convert is broad SEO surface. |
| Generators | qr-site (qr.oriz.in) | Tiny scope, ships in days, ranks fast. |
Per-site tool seeds:
- pdf-site — merge, split, compress, rotate, watermark, password, edit, sign, OCR, page extract, redact
- image-site — resize, compress, convert format, crop, rotate, filter, remove background, palette extract, EXIF strip
- finance-site — EMI, SIP, mutual fund returns, tax (India + US), retirement, mortgage, currency, crypto-converter, P/E, NPS
- dev-site — JSON↔YAML↔TOML↔CSV, base64, JWT decode, regex tester, URL encode, UUID gen, hash (SHA/MD5), color-palette, cron explainer, .env validator, URL→Markdown (migrated from
oriz-urls-to-md) - text-site — word count, case convert, lorem ipsum, slug, diff, sort lines, dedupe, find/replace, markdown→HTML, reading-time, readability score
- convert-site — unit converter (length/weight/temp), timezone, time-format, number-base, color-format, audio/video format (FFmpeg.wasm), file-size
- qr-site — generate (text/url/wifi/vcard/upi), decode, batch CSV→QR, custom logo/colors
- data-site — CSV viewer, CSV→JSON, JSON→CSV, sort, filter, pivot, dedupe, merge two CSVs, schema diff, fake-data generator
Tier 2 — stubs day 1, fill in later (7 subdomains)
Day 1: each Tier 2 repo exists with stub index.astro listing planned tools as cards labelled “coming soon”. Cloudflare Pages projects spun up so the subdomains start aging in Google’s index.
| Subdomain | Category | Planned tools |
|---|---|---|
audio-site (audio.oriz.in) | Audio | trim, merge, format convert, normalize loudness, silence trim, BPM detect, pitch shift — all FFmpeg.wasm |
video-site (video.oriz.in) | Video | trim, compress, format convert, gif↔mp4, frame extract, audio strip, subtitle burn-in — FFmpeg.wasm |
seo-site (seo.oriz.in) | SEO / web | meta-tag preview, sitemap generator, robots.txt validator, schema.org JSON-LD generator, keyword density, broken-link check |
crypto-site (crypto.oriz.in) | Cryptography | encrypt/decrypt (AES/RSA), key-pair gen, sign/verify, password gen, password-strength, BIP39 mnemonic, HOTP/TOTP |
health-site (health.oriz.in) | Health & fitness | BMI, BMR, calorie/macros, body-fat, water intake, HR zones, pace, ovulation, due-date — pure-JS, no PHI stored |
random-site (random.oriz.in) | Random / picker | dice, coin, roulette, name picker, team divider, decision wheel |
print-site (print.oriz.in) | Print-ready | label maker, name-tag, ID-card, business-card, planner-page, graph-paper, dot-grid |
Promotion rule: a Tier 2 site moves to “Tier 1 functional” when it has ≥6 working tools.
Tier 3 — SKIPPED
The Tier 3 categories (legal, music, chess, paint, game, food, resume, invoice, social, ai, network, accessibility) are explicitly rejected for the day-1 plan. Reasons:
- Most are highly specialised — they only work if the operator personally uses them.
- Some have hidden costs (legal needs compliance tone; ai needs inference cost; network needs server-side; accessibility overlaps with the existing
a11y-three-toolsdecision). - Day-1 scope of 15 is already aggressive; adding more dilutes focus.
If any Tier 3 category is later promoted, it becomes a separate decision with its own concept file.
Anti-list — explicitly DO NOT ship
These categories must not be added to the family even if requested casually later. Reasons documented per-row:
| Category | Why NOT |
|---|---|
| Background remover (free) | Fully commoditised by nano-banana, Adobe, 50 others. AI inference cost real. Differentiation = zero. |
| AI image generation | Inference cost violates no-paid-services rule. |
| Free VPN / proxy | Server cost, abuse vector, legal risk in some markets. |
| Disposable email | Server cost, abuse magnet, hosting providers will ban you. |
| URL shorteners (general purpose) | Abuse magnet, server cost, keyword saturated. The internal s.oriz.in from cross-post-engine.md is internal-only — not a public shortener. |
| YouTube downloader | TOS violation, recruiter-negative, takedowns. |
| Torrent / piracy adjacent | Recruiter risk, legal risk. |
| Crypto airdrop trackers / shitcoin tools | Recruiter-negative in 2026; reputational drift. |
Related
- tools-site-15-repos.md — repo shape for these 15
- branding/repo-naming-suffixes.md — current slug taxonomy for the existing tool repos
- a11y-three-tools.md — covers the accessibility work elsewhere