I made an app to convert almost any file to any other file
2,410 people are now using it
And it does 5,384 types of document, video, image, audio and email file conversions
| What I'm building | https://howtoconvert.co |
| My Homepage | https://merlinsbeard.ai |
| Medium | https://medium.com/@jakemanger |
I made an app to convert almost any file to any other file
2,410 people are now using it
And it does 5,384 types of document, video, image, audio and email file conversions
Went full time on my side project in January
Realised my boss (me) only lets me have 0 or 1 days off a week
But also: never been happier
I'm building an app to convert almost any file locally
This week I added 1,399 new possible file conversions
(from 3,985 to 5,384 document, video, image, audio, comic and email conversions)
It now converts more file types than any other converter
In hindsight: a bad choice of a hero message
If you haven't heard, two versions of LiteLLM got hacked yesterday (1.82.7 and 1.82.8)
Live on PyPI for 3 hours. Downloaded 3.4 million times per day.
Stole SSH keys, AWS credentials, Kubernetes secrets, API keys, Docker registry credentials, and crypto wallet seed phrases.
How it happened:
I made an app to convert almost any file locally
(so you don't send your files to random servers)
And now it support COMIC book files! CBZ, CBR and CBT
(these are also free to convert on the website)
This is my file converter app
Drag and drop to convert almost any file
Does everything locally, unlike converters you find on Google
It just crossed 2,400 users!
It's funny: 99% of my revenue comes from my main app, How to Convert
But what gets me most excited?
The one sale a month I get from my little photomosaic making app, PicTiler
Literally just made a "weeeooooeee" sound out loud
Hit top of r/macapps
Made $1k in a single day
Spent the next week non-stop fixing bugs and adding features people asked for
Built a scrappy new app over Christmas break in about a month
Posted it on r/sideproject
Got my first sale in 15 minutes