Hi — new account, long-time lurker. sakurablush.
I left corporate recently. Not dramatically — more like "this is slowly eating my brain and I can't pretend it's fine anymore." So I'm freelancing now. Before I start waving a services banner at people, I wanted to ship something actually useful first. Something that isn't a pitch deck.
So I spent about a week building Banal instead of chasing invoices. Classic freelancer logic: might starve, but at least the starving comes with a static site and no Jira.
What it is:
• 273 curated free AI + developer tools — honest access labels (no-login, free-tier, open-source, etc.)
• 52 prompt templates (EN + Japanese) — copy, fill blanks, paste anywhere
• 38 open models, 10 zero-budget workflow stacks
• Static site — Vite/TS/Tailwind, no backend, no accounts, no telemetry
• MIT — fork it, host it, put it on a USB, whatever
• Links audited weekly (because "free" tools love dying without warning)
Site:
https://sakurablush.github.io/banal/Repo:
https://github.com/sakurablush/banalIssues:
https://github.com/sakurablush/banal/issuesDiscussions:
https://github.com/sakurablush/banal/discussionsWhy I'm posting here: it's free, it stays free, and if it saves someone the $200/month subscription stack trap — good. That's the point.
If you want to contribute code: fork + PR, or drop broken links in Issues. No collaborator invite circus needed.
If you want to chip in financially — only if it actually helped you, zero obligation, no tiers, no perks, no guilt trip:
BTC: bc1qcrj9wreunffxm75fcz0a2gjkw87jshcwvmxv68
ETH: 0x3A265D72AB43f9C55bD71E0FD5c1b3304601ce33
LTC: ltc1q0nsarncmnz8vk34dav7l0vgu9m5k48drr8z6js
DOGE: D6YGoYWpFZxW8JXvEfT5iB9uNXcs8AeY7L
Not asking anyone to "check out my revolutionary platform." It's a bookmark. Use it or don't.
Happy to answer questions, take criticism, or get told a link is dead — that's useful too.
— sakurablush
