Practical file-conversion guides, how-to notes, and stories from building SmartConvert.
Codeium is now Devin Desktop, OpenCode is an open-source agent, Copilot is a platform, Ollama runs models locally, and OpenRouter is a model router. Here is how the five fit together, and which one you actually need.
A late-night WebP logo and a 4.8 MB PNG screenshot taught me when to use WebP to PNG vs PNG to WebP — locally, no uploads.
How I reduce PDF file size for email and sharing without wrecking readability — plus what actually makes PDFs large and when to keep the original.
SmartConvert is starting to get indexed by Google, but search traffic is still tiny. Here’s what I’m seeing and why I’m choosing to wait and watch the data.
SmartConvert was rejected by Google AdSense for low-value content. Here are the real numbers, what I learned, and what I'm watching next.
I'm a programmer building SmartConvert from scratch. This is the story of why I started, what I'm learning, and what happens when you try to build a product on your own.
