CraftlyKit — TabVault saves your tabs and your place in them, and OdDraw is a browser game hub in development
CraftlyKitCraftlyKit is a one-person studio in Faisalabad making two things. TabVault is a free Chrome extension that saves your tabs along with the exact scroll position you were at and the exact minute you reached in a video. OdDraw is a browser game hub, still in development.
Free. No account. Everything stays on your own device.
The studio
A workshop, not a platform
CraftlyKit is one person, a text editor, and a running list of things that are mildly annoying to do in a browser. What comes out of that is either a tool or a game, and both are held to the same three rules.
01
Small on purpose
Every project does one job. TabVault saves tabs and your place in them — it is not also a bookmark manager, a reading list, and a note app. A tool that does six things adequately is worse than one that does a single thing so well you stop thinking about it.
02
Nothing between you and the thing
No account before a tool will work, and no signup wall before a game starts. TabVault keeps everything in your own browser, which means there is nothing to log into and nothing to leak.
03
Built for the device you actually have
The test machine is a mid-range phone on a slow connection, not a developer's laptop on fibre. If something only feels good on fast hardware, it is not finished yet.
I am Saad, and I build all of this alone from Faisalabad. How TabVault started, and what I am making next.
How the studio works, in numbers
0
Accounts needed, for anything
TabVault needs no login. Neither will the games.
100%
Of TabVault's data kept on your device
No sync server, because there is no server and no account.
2
Things being built right now
TabVault, shipped and maintained. OdDraw, in development.
In the kit
What CraftlyKit makes
One shipped, one being built, and the status on each stated plainly. Nothing on this list is a mockup or a waiting list.
Being built
OdDraw, in progress
A hub of short games that start in a tab — no download, no account, nothing saved about you. It is not playable yet, so there is no link to give you and no date to promise.
OdDraw
Everyone gets the same secret word to draw — except one player, who gets a different word and does not know it. The odd one out has to draw something plausible enough to pass while everyone else draws to prove they know the real word.
Draw too vaguely and you look like the odd one out. Draw too precisely and you hand the imposter the answer.
Also in the hub
- Trivia
- Speed typing
- Drawing guess
- Tic Tac Toe
- Connect Four
- Hangman
- Rock Paper Scissors
Solo against the computer, locally with a friend on one device, or matched with someone online. No signup either way.
It will live at games.craftlykit.com once it is playable.
Writing
From the notebook
Notes on building small software: what earns a place in a toolbar, what a game owes someone on a slow connection, and how things here get made.
- Web tool, browser extension, or bookmarklet: which one your task actually needsA comparison of the three lightest ways to automate a small task in a browser, and how to tell which one fits before you commit to it.6 min
- From annoyance to shipped: how a CraftlyKit project actually gets builtThe full path a small project takes here — from noticing a repeated irritation to publishing it, including the stage where most ideas get killed.7 min
- Building for all ages: what a teenager and a parent both need from a toolDesigning for a wide age range is not about simplifying. It is about removing the assumptions that quietly exclude one group or the other.6 min
Questions
Things people actually ask
It saves your browser tabs along with your place in them. TabVault records the exact scroll position of a page and the exact timestamp of a YouTube video, so when you reopen a saved tab you land where you stopped rather than back at the top. Saved tabs go into categories you name yourself, and a whole category reopens in one click.
Something not covered here? Send it over — questions asked more than once end up on this list.