Most "free" tools for freelancers want an email address before they show you a number. I wanted the opposite: open a page, type your figures, get the answer, close the tab. So I built SoloDesk , a set of 13 small tools for people who bill their own clients, as a plain static site. No framework, no backend, no accounts, nothing uploaded. This post is about the decisions behind it, a few things that went wrong, and what a search plan looks like for a domain that is a week old. Why ...