Skip to content
Hardmode

// Free tools

Free tools.

Small, useful pieces of interview prep you can use right now: no account, no email. When you want to practise out loud against an interviewer that pushes back, that’s what Hardmode is for.

// 01 · The tools

Pick one

  • System design capacity estimator

    QPS, storage, bandwidth, and cache size from a few numbers, with the arithmetic shown so you can talk it through.

    Coming soon
  • Interview plan from a job posting

    Paste a job posting and see the rounds likely in the loop and what each one probes. Inferred from the posting.

    Coming soon
  • Behavioural story builder

    Turn rough notes into a STAR story, with details worth adding and the follow-ups an interviewer is likely to ask.

    Coming soon
  • Offer negotiation drafter

    An email, a call outline, and replies to the usual recruiter lines, drafted from your offer and what matters to you.

    Coming soon
  • Questions to ask your interviewer

    Questions to ask a recruiter, hiring manager, peer, or skip-level, with what to listen for in each answer.

    Coming soon

// 02 · How they work

What free means here

  • 01

    No account

    Use any tool without signing up: 3 runs a day per tool. The capacity estimator runs in your browser, with no limit.

  • 02

    Nothing kept

    Results stay on the page and aren’t saved. What you type is sent to third-party AI model providers to produce the result, and we don’t keep it.

  • 03

    No email wall

    Every result is yours without an email. Signing up is one click with Google, for 20 runs a day and 20 free credits.

The details are in the privacy policy.

// 03 · Player 1

Get ready for hard mode.

Paste the job you want. Run the loop until the real one feels like a rematch.

20 free credits · No card required