Desk Anvil
The tools Coming soon Standards

Browser tools for publishers

Small tools for the minute before you publish.

I run six affiliate sites, and the expensive failures are all silent: a link paying someone else's account, an image that stopped loading, a page that broke months ago. These are the checks I built for myself, for the minute before you hit publish.

See the first tool What every tool promises
  • Clear pricing
  • Local-first
  • No hidden telemetry
Affiliate Link Inspector — this page 4 links · 1 unresolved
LinkShould payActually paysVerdict
amazon.com/dp/B07FZ2 deskanvil-20 someoneelse-20 Wrong tag
amzn.to/3PqR7fK deskanvil-20 hidden by redirect Tag hidden
amazon.com/dp/B08XY4 deskanvil-20 deskanvil-20 Tag ok
/go/tent-poles — — Not checked

Try /go/ to reclassify the final row without opening it.

This uses the Inspector's real redirect-prefix rule. A match identifies your own redirect but never opens it or claims to have verified the payout. Example data.

Coming soon · Windows app

Perch: see what your AI agents are doing, from the edge of your screen.

My first paid app, and a step beyond browser tools. A quiet strip on your screen edge shows every Claude Code and Codex session at a glance, so you stop alt-tabbing to check whether an agent is done.

  • Working, finished, waiting for your answer, or out of usage, one dot per session
  • Claude's 5-hour and weekly usage with the time until each resets
  • Your latest screenshots and kept files, ready to drag into a chat

Runs locally, no account. Paid with a free trial; the price will be stated before anyone can buy. Not downloadable yet.

See Perch

Illustration with sample sessions. Drag a capture straight out of the shelf; the strip docks to any screen edge.

Departures

What I'm building.

Two are out and installable today. The rest follow one at a time, as each earns it. I'd rather ship one tool people trust than five nobody finishes installing.

Affiliate Link Inspector · Chrome extension
Wrong tagTag hiddenTag ok

Finds every monetised link on a page, checks the Amazon tag is actually yours, and says what needs review before you publish.

Available
Broken Link & Image Checker · Chrome extension
Failed to loadCouldn't verifyNot checked

Dead links and broken images on any page, not just affiliate ones. It never says "broken" when the honest answer is "couldn't check", and it never follows a tracked link just to test it.

Available
Fresh Reload · Chrome extension
Cache clearedSkipped

Clears the cached files for the page you're on, then reloads it, so you see the edit you just made instead of last week's copy. You stay signed in.

In the works
Window Tabs: Sleep & Reload · Chrome extension
9 slept1 left alone

Puts the idle tabs in the window you're in to sleep, or reloads all of them, in one click. It never reaches into your other windows unless you ask it to.

In the works
Perch · Windows app
WorkingDoneLimit hit

A quiet strip on your screen edge that shows which Claude Code and Codex sessions are working, done, or waiting on you, plus your usage limits and a shelf for recent screenshots. Paid, with a free trial.

Coming soon

Service notices

The same four rules, in all of them.

These are product constraints, not marketing claims. If a tool cannot keep one of them, it does not ship under Desk Anvil.

  • The deal is clear before you start

    Many tools are free. Some may be freemium, and larger products may be paid. The useful job, limits, and price are stated before you install—no bait-and-switch or manufactured paywall.

  • It stays local whenever it can

    Local work stays on your machine. If a feature genuinely needs a server, its page says what leaves your device, why, and how it is handled. No hidden analytics or telemetry.

  • It tells you what it can't do

    Every tool ships a plain list of its blind spots, and never labels something "wrong" when the honest answer is "couldn't check." Confident wrong answers are how you learn to ignore warnings.

  • It explains why, not just what

    A coloured dot tells you nothing. Every finding comes with the cause and what to do about it, because the point isn't the report, it's the fix.

Who makes these

One person, using them daily.

I'm not a company, and there's no team behind this. I publish affiliate content for a living, I hit these problems on my own sites first, and I build the tool rather than adding another step to a checklist I'll forget.

I'm building Desk Anvil to make the kind of software I want to install: focused, fast, respectful of the person using it, and honest about what it cannot know. The goal is to help you finish the job and get back to your work—not keep you trapped inside another app.

That's the whole quality control: every tool here is one I use before I publish. If it were annoying, I'd have deleted it instead of shipping it.

I write about the work — what's earning, what failed, what I got wrong — at Dead Reckoning. Questions or bug reports come straight to me: deskanvil@gmail.com.

Now boarding

Two tools are out.

Both are free, need no account, and run entirely on your machine. Each tool's page covers exactly what it checks and what it cannot see.

Affiliate Link Inspector Broken Link & Image Checker