Convert Stuff

The Origin

There's a certain kind of website that exists purely to make a simple task feel dangerous. You need to turn a .webm into a GIF. You find a converter. It works — but you spent the whole time wondering what else it was doing while you waited. The ads are aggressive. The UI looks like it was designed to confuse you into clicking the wrong button. You close the tab and feel mildly relieved.

That's the whole origin story here.

What It Is

Convert Stuff is a single HTML file that runs FFmpeg — compiled to WebAssembly — entirely in the browser. Nothing leaves your machine. There's no server receiving your files, no account, no ads, no reason to feel vaguely surveilled. Drop a file, get a file back, move on.

It lives alongside BPM Finder, Grab, and the rest of a small but growing set of tools built around a simple constraint: stay self-contained. No backends. No installs. No frameworks. The tools look like they belong to each other because they do — same dark palette, same monospace aesthetic, same philosophy about what a utility should feel like to use.

The GIF conversion uses a two-pass palette approach so the output actually looks good. The audio converter handles WAV and MP3 in both directions. Both work without ever asking you to trust a stranger's server with your files.