Hi. I’m Sam and I’m a computer geek. Ever since I was a kid I enjoyed video games and technology, I’ve always been fascinated by tech gadgets to the point where I wrote tech news for a local website for around 2 years.

The reason why I love technology so much is that it makes our lives easier, everything you see nowadays is run by some kind of technology and engineering. From cars to internet, every single thing uses a combination of technology and engineering.

I spend my time on social media looking at memes and useful tech tools, gadgets, softwares, and websites that can make my life easier. I used a social media platform to save all of the videos I liked and add them to collections based on their categories, but this social media was banned in my country and all of my saved videos were “lost” because of the ban.

Right there and then I said to myself, “why don’t I create a website where I can list all of the tools and they never get lost?”, and that’s how I came up with the idea of creating UtiliTips. I installed a VPN and opened that social media platform and went over hundreds of videos that I had saved and added all of the tools names into a Google Sheet.

The Google Sheet contained names, descriptions, price (Free, Fremium, Premium), category, company, platform, keywords, etc. All of the information I could gather on every single tool was added to this sheet.

I wanted to create something fast and launch the website as quickly as possible so I used WordPress, I created the design and added all of my tools there. Then I noticed that the website was getting slower and I decided to recreate the front-end of the website using a JavaScript library called React.

I started the website recreation in the middle of July/2024 and finished it in a couple of days, the back-end and content management is still in WordPress because it makes it easy to manage the content in an effective way. But the front-end is now in React and I’m in between adding new features, testing and fixing issues, keeping the blog up to date, searching for new tools and games, etc.

Since I just started and I’m still not earning any money from UtiliTips, I’m currently a one-man-show so please bear with me because I’m still fixing the content of the entire website. I have hundreds of useful tools to go over and around 14k games to review, as well as adding content to the blog to keep you guys informed.

So this is the whole story of why UtiliTips started and I’m planning to turn it into something big in the coming years, I just need some time and luck.

I hope you guys enjoy using UtiliTips as much as I enjoyed creating it, I, for sure, will be using it a lot since that social media platform was banned.