imissfiles
PDF and image tools that run in the browser
Three days after the first post.
Search is looking at the extract-images page. A few hundred impressions, almost no clicks. That is the honest status.
The mistake I keep seeing on those queries: most “extract images from PDF” sites screenshot the page and hand you a PNG of the layout. The one I shipped pulls the original JPEG/PNG bytes out of the file.
I also wrote down the check I use on every converter, including mine. Open DevTools → Network, drop a file in, watch whether a POST the size of the document leaves the page.
Not adding more tools. The two pages with actual demand are extract-images and photo-of-a-table → Excel.
If you land on a site you have never heard of and the file is a lease, is the Network-tab check enough, or do you still bounce?
I got tired of dropping a lease or an iPhone photo on iLovePDF and hoping they deleted it later.
So I built the tools I actually use.
What it is
- Merge, split, compress, HEIC, OCR, a few text tools
- Runs in the tab — pdf-lib, PDF.js, libheif WASM, Tesseract
- No account, no cap
- Ads pay the hosting. They sit around the workbench. They do not get the file.
The claim is checkable. Open any tool, press F12, switch to Network, drop a file. You should not see a POST the size of the file.
I wrote that check down so I would stop asking people to trust a privacy policy:
https://imissfiles.com/guides/check-if-a-website-uploads-your-file/
What I'm stuck on
This is a utility. People search "merge pdf" and click the first result. I do not have a Product Hunt list. I have been leaving the Network-tab writeup in places where people already worry about the upload.
If you have shipped something in this shape — free tool, ads, no account — what actually moved the needle after launch? SEO pages, comparison posts, or just waiting?
Happy to hear what is weak on the site too.
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1The Network-tab proof is much stronger than a privacy claim. Have you seen that angle produce meaningfully better search traffic or engagement, or is proving the privacy advantage commercially still the unknown?
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Still the unknown on traffic. The guide went up yesterday, so I do not have ranking data yet.
What I have seen is engagement quality. People argue with "we never upload." They open Network. On the writeup, comments go to the method — POST vs GET, WASM fetches, ads firing — not to a feature list.
Commercially I am treating it as a trust page, not a growth lever I can already measure. If it starts showing up for "does ilovepdf upload" type queries I will know. Until then I would rather have a check people can run than a better slogan.
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1That engagement quality is a strong signal. I’d be interested in following what the search data shows. If you’re open to it, what’s the best email to reach you on?
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