§ About — one developer, one product

Built by hand,
from the Canary Islands.

ToolCenter is a one-person software company. No seed round, no growth team, no marketing agency — just a developer who got tired of stitching five APIs for every side project, and figured others might feel the same.

Founded
2025

Started as a weekend screenshot tool.

Based
Las Palmas

Gran Canaria, Spain.

Team
1

Answered by the same developer.

Stack
PHP · Node

Laravel + Puppeteer + SearXNG.

The problem

Every small project started the same way: you pay ScreenshotOne for screenshots, PDFShift for PDFs, Hunter.io for email validation, Wappalyzer for tech detection, and some DNS API nobody remembers the name of — a dozen vendors, a dozen bills, a dozen dashboards to watch.

The "right" tool for each job was never the problem. Paying five subscriptions, managing five keys, and reading five docs just to ship a side project — that was the problem.

"I kept wanting a single API key that did all the boring web stuff."

The product

ToolCenter is that single key. 40+ REST endpoints — screenshots, PDFs, SEO, DNS, WHOIS, SSL, web scraping, metadata, 20-odd smaller utilities — all metered against one shared quota. Plus an MCP server exposing 15 of those tools to AI agents (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code).

Fair pricing: €0 for hobby projects (100 calls/month, no credit card), €9 for production apps (10,000 calls), €29 for teams (50,000). No seats, no tiers, no addons. One number.

Why trust a solo operator

Running a SaaS alone means predictable — I can't pivot into an enterprise pivot, can't get acquired by a conglomerate, can't lay off the team. The product evolves at a human pace. If something breaks, the same person who wrote it answers the email.

Infrastructure is deliberately boring: Laravel + Puppeteer + SearXNG on dedicated servers. No fragile SaaS chain. If any external dependency dies tomorrow, ToolCenter keeps running.

What you're buying

Mostly time. Time you don't spend wiring five APIs. Time you don't spend managing keys. Time you don't spend writing retry logic. You pay €9/month so those hours go into building your product instead.

Say hi

Email [email protected] — it's a real inbox, answered within 24 hours on weekdays. GitHub issues at toolcenter-dev. Twitter: not active.