I Was Paying $67/Month for 5 Subscriptions. So I Built One Tool to Replace Them All.

Let me guess your browser tabs right now.

Tab 1: remove.bg — removing the background from a product photo

Tab 2: TinyPNG — compressing that same photo so it loads faster

Tab 3: OCR.space — because you need the text from that receipt someone sent you

Tab 4: ChatGPT — writing a product description for the thing you just photographed

Tab 5: PhotoRoom — because remove.bg messed up the edges on the last one

Sound familiar?

The subscription trap

I used to be that person. Every month, $67 disappeared from my bank account for tools I used maybe twice a week. Each one did ONE thing. And each one wanted me to upgrade to a "pro" plan that cost more than my lunch.

The worst part? I was building a SaaS product myself. I knew how this worked. I knew the psychology behind freemium, the "upgrade now" popups, the artificially limited free tiers. And yet there I was, paying for 5 different tools to do what should've been one workflow.

So I did what any reasonable developer would do: I got annoyed, opened VS Code, and built my own.

PixelForge AI: The "one tab" solution

Here's what I built:

The free tools work without even creating an account. Just drop an image and see what happens.

And if you're a fellow indie hacker building something cool, I'd love to hear about it. The solo dev community is the best part of building in public.

Built with Next.js, deployed on Vercel, powered by Replicate AI. One human, too much coffee, and an unreasonable number of browser tabs reduced to one.