Tally & Make is one person building free tools for people who make things by hand, and finding out which ones anybody actually wants.
Every tool here is real and finished enough to be useful on its own. Each one is also a question: is this worth building properly? I put one out, see whether anyone uses it, and decide from that.
Which means some of these will be abandoned. Not neglected quietly — actually stopped, because not enough people needed them. I would rather say that plainly on this page than have you find out when a tool you liked stops working.
There is a bigger idea behind the small ones. It might never get built. If it does, it will be because the small ones showed there was something worth building, and the people on the email list will hear about it first.
They stay up. A tool that works costs almost nothing to keep online, and a calculator that is right today is still right in three years. What stops is my adding to it. If one ever does have to come down, the email list gets told before it happens.
Because charging for them would answer a different question from the one I am asking. A paywall measures who will pay for a calculator, which is close to nobody, and tells me nothing about whether the underlying problem is real. Free, useful, and counted is a much better instrument.
There are no adverts and nothing is sold. Nothing about you is sold either — there is a page on exactly what gets counted, and the short version is: no cookies, no identifier, nothing that follows you.
Two things at the bottom of every tool, both of which genuinely work:
If a number looks wrong to you, please say so in that box. You know your craft better than a calculator does, and "this told me 6 balls and it took 4" is the most valuable sentence anyone can send me.
Haydn, in the UK. Built in evenings. If you want to reach me, the box on any tool page comes straight to me, and replying to any email on the list does too.