DebugKit — Swiss-army knife for scraping
JWT, Base64, regex, and JSON debugging in one fully offline panel
- Problem
- A developer with years of scraping experience complained about constantly bouncing between random online tools: decoding a JWT returned by an endpoint, cleaning up Base64 hashes, testing regexes against a page structure that changes every other month. The biggest frustration was not knowing where the pasted data went. Existing debug tools are either online or scattered.
- Solution
- A fully local browser-based developer panel that combines decoders, formatters, regex testers, and field extractors into composable workspaces. Users can save the current page structure as a debug sample and reuse it next time without re-pasting. Everything runs client-side.
- Users
- Indie developers doing web scraping, data engineers, and crawler developers who frequently handle API responses.
- MVP
- JWT decode, Base64 encode/decode, JSON pretty-print and diff, live regex tester; all processing in-browser with zero upload; paste or drag-and-drop files; save tool combinations as workspaces; local history.
- Revenue
- Free local version as lead magnet; paid one-time or subscription for workspace sync, team-shared snippets, CLI version, and batch processing.
- Why now
- Scraping and API debugging remain daily high-frequency work, yet generic online tools have privacy concerns and are fragmented. Client-side compute is now fast enough for a privacy-first, no-signup debug panel.
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