Manas
I build things that make everyday life a little easier. UtilTapstarted as a personal frustration — every time I needed a simple online tool, I'd land on a bloated, ad-stuffed site that wanted my email before letting me count words. So I built the version I actually wanted to use.
I'm a full-stack developer from India with a framework thinking approach — I'd rather understand the system than memorise the syntax. I work across the stack (React, Node, TypeScript, Next.js) and I'm currently a founding engineer at a hiring-tech startup while building things like this on the side.
UtilTap is my ongoing experiment in useful simplicity. One tool at a time, every week. No accounts, no paywalls, no nonsense.
Why I'm building tools for Indian forms
A few years ago, I tried to help my younger brother submit his SSC application from home. We had a decent photo. We had a scanned signature. We had the form filled out. What we didn't have was a way to make that photo fit SSC's exact spec — 100×120 pixels, between 20 and 50 KB, JPEG only — without burning an hour on bloated converter sites that demanded an email before they'd compress anything.
That hour turned into three. Three websites. One ad-stuffed photo editor that exported the wrong dimensions. One “free” resizer that watermarked the output. One that worked but uploaded the file to a server somewhere I couldn't verify. We eventually got it through. He got the job.
I kept thinking about it though. Every Indian student applying for SSC, IBPS, UPSC, Railway, banking, or a passport runs into the same wall: photo and signature specs that look simple until you try to meet them on a phone, on a deadline, with the form open in another tab. The official portals don't give you a tool. The ones that show up first in search are mostly generic, mostly Western, and most of them want your file on their server before they'll do anything with it.
So I started building the version I wished had existed that day. One tool per form. The exact spec for each portal — IBPS 200×200, SSC 100×120, passport 35×45 mm at 600×780 px, signature under 20 KB — baked in so you don't have to remember it. Everything runs in your browser; nothing leaves your device. Free, no signup, no watermarks.
That's the focus. The text counters and password generators on this site are nice-to-have. The form tools are the point.
What's on UtilTap
A growing collection of free utility tools — text counters, file converters, spiritual practice counters, Indian-context calculators. Each one built to be fast, private, and genuinely useful. No tool on this site requires a login or sends your data anywhere.
New tools ship every week.