Never used Cloudflare.
Jumped in anyway.
No prior account. No tutorial. Just a prompt that asked "what should I build?" — and a Workers setup that was shockingly, stupidly simple. This is what happened next.
A prompt and a blank Cloudflare account
I'd never actually used Cloudflare for anything before — not even for DNS. But Workers kept showing up everywhere and I got curious. So I just… created an account and tried it.
First thing I did was ask an AI: "what are some useful small tools I could build on Cloudflare Workers?" Got a list back. Picked one. Wrote the code. Deployed. It worked.
That was it. No weeks of setup. No “getting the environment right.” Just wrangler deploy and it was live, globally, instantly. I was genuinely surprised by how simple it felt.
Fayaz (@fayazara) noticed what I was building
First tool live. Brother messaged.
Once I started I couldn't stop. URL shortener, dead man's switch, OG image generator, job board — one after another. The energy was real.
The very first tool went live and my brother messaged almost immediately. He'd seen it. His take? Grab a domain, make it a proper thing, ship 100 tools. He even had the name — workerscando.com. The ideas were always mine, things I ran into in daily life and thought “why doesn't this exist?” But the push to commit to 100 and actually own it? That was him.
My brother messaged right after the first one dropped.
“Dude is cracked”
Fayaz — a builder I really respect in the Workers/Cloudflare space — came across the project and said what he said. That kind of offhand compliment from someone who actually knows their stuff hits different.
It wasn't about clout. It was just confirmation that the thing I was doing had merit. That the gap I was filling was real. I still think about that when the motivation dips.
Still kind of unreal this happened.
The idea is simple.
Edge-first
Every tool runs on Cloudflare's global network. No servers to manage, no cold starts, latency in single-digit milliseconds.
Real problems
Every tool comes from something I actually ran into. Not invented problems — things I needed and couldn't find, built.
Open source
Every Worker, every component, every line is public. Fork it, learn from it, build on top of it — no strings attached.
Then I disappeared for two months.
Life happened. Momentum died. I stopped shipping and I knew it was happening and somehow that made it worse — every day I didn't build felt like a bigger debt to pay back later.
I genuinely regret that gap. Not in a dramatic way — just the quiet kind of regret you feel when you let something good go cold. The streak was working. The ideas were there. I just stopped.
So this is me paying that debt back.
Back with new ideas.
Building things that matter.
The goal hasn't changed: 100 tools on Cloudflare Workers. But the approach is different now. Less “ship fast and move on,” more “build something genuinely useful, understand it deeply, then ship it.”
Every tool from here is a real thing I'd use. Every Worker is something I'm learning from. If it helps someone else along the way — even better.
Mohd Anas
Full-stack dev. Edge computing enthusiast. Deeply interested in the Cloudflare Workers ecosystem. Open to internships and interesting problems.