Why I'm building free PDF and image tools that never touch a server

Last month, I watched someone at a café upload their national ID(Aadhaar) to an online PDF tool. They needed to crop it, compress it, and send it somewhere. So they did what everyone does — Googled "free PDF tool," uploaded the file, downloaded the result, closed the tab. Their government ID — name, address, date of birth, ID number — had just passed through a server they knew nothing about. Stored for how long? Accessed by whom? Under which country's data laws? They had no idea. Neither did the