Six months ago, I tried to merge two PDFs for a client proposal. ilovepdf asked me to sign up. Smallpdf told me I'd hit my daily limit. Adobe wanted $20/month.
To merge. Two. Files. That frustration turned into TryMyPdf — 20 completely free PDF tools, no account, no watermarks, files auto-deleted in 1 hour. Here's the honest story of building it, the technical decisions I made, and what surprised